I Fought the Law

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I Fought the Law
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Fireworks

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I recently graduated from a state university in a state that has very strict laws about fireworks - no firecrackers, no bottle rockets, mortars, anything. Basically all that's legal are sparklers and boring little fountains. Well, I like to buy better ones from out of state, and while living at school I made an art out of shooting off small amounts of large illegal fireworks in my apartment complex and quickly leaving the scene so as not to get caught. I was visiting for the school's opening weekend to party with some friends that still go there, and we decided it was time to have some fiery fun. Keep in mind that traveling anywhere on campus or around town the first weekend is like driving around in GTA with 4-5 stars. Leaving our beers in the apartment, we took 2 bottle rockets, a string of firecrackers that cost four or five bucks, and one mortar shell to the end of the building. Thinking we checked the parking lot well for cops, we got off one bottle rocket and a moment later there's a state police Tahoe with its spotlight on us. Having had a number of fireworks-related run-ins with police before that I've always managed to weasel myself out of, I told my friend to just let them do their thing because they'd probably just give us a talking-to and take the fireworks. Well, as they walked up one of them smugly asked, "Did you guys think we'd left, or...?" And we just told them we guessed not because we didn't feel like talking with them. They saw the mortar and the tube and asked "What the hell do you got here?" and where we got them. They decided to check our IDs and since I'm over 21, they didn't say another word to me. As they left, they took the 2nd bottle rocket, the firecrackers, and the mortar, but left the launch tube. Good thing I had another 10 mortars and hundreds of bottle rockets in my car. Cops: Always thinking ahead.

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