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VIDEO: Illegal fireworks shot at first responders; 2 fire trucks taken out of service (Dallas, TX)
WFAA (Dallas TV Station) ^ | 7/5/2018 | Matt Howerton

Posted on 07/06/2018 4:12:49 PM PDT by RightGeek

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To: tomkat
Yeah, we used to cut out coffee can lids as hand protectors.

Also at Domino's, I had my car shot with paintballs, and hit by a frozen egg. Left a big dent. It was Halloween, about 4 degrees and snowing. So the egg the kids threw was frozen.

21 posted on 07/06/2018 4:59:48 PM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: BBell

I was trying to look it up but ran into a Google search for “Migrant Rape Epidemic in Germany and the Descent Into Madness” Sept2,2016.

Now I’ll have trouble sleeping. Sorry for all of us.


22 posted on 07/06/2018 5:04:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: raybbr

A fire engine is not an MRAP.


23 posted on 07/06/2018 5:09:18 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: tomkat

We had Roman Candle fights. Of our friends, 4 parents had lake houses next to each other with boat houses. We manned the boat docks with an arsenal of Roman Candles. The objective was to make the other guys jump into the water to avoid being hit by a ball. If you went into the water you were out.

The team that had the most, or last, person standing won!

GREAT FUN!

On a personal note: Ben Harned, when around water, always got naked. RIP Ben. You are missed.


24 posted on 07/06/2018 5:15:55 PM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
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To: real saxophonist

Thinkin’ back on all that seems like a thousand years ago . . .


25 posted on 07/06/2018 5:18:31 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: raybbr
A half million dollar vehicle is disabled but a firework? Not buying it.

Blew tha dang oil pan OFF!!

26 posted on 07/06/2018 5:22:06 PM PDT by misanthrope (Sinister deplorable)
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To: tomkat

What, you never had bottle rocket battles as a kid ?
sheesh


I grew up in SoCal in the 50s. We were lucky to have sparklers. There were some firecrackers smuggled in from Mexico. Didn’t get real fireworks until I moved to Missouri.


27 posted on 07/06/2018 5:28:05 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Wiz-Nerd; real saxophonist
Great stories fellas .. hadn't foreseen a memory lane stroll this evenin' but appreciate it .. thanks  :-)

It's really really hard to imagine much of that going on in this mess that used to be our country.
And we not only survived just fine, thankyouverymuch, but such was completely unremarkable at the time.

28 posted on 07/06/2018 5:28:22 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: misanthrope
Blew tha dang oil pan OFF!!

That's what got my attention .. on a truck that size, that oil pan's not on there with little 1/4-20 bolts.

29 posted on 07/06/2018 5:31:22 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: hanamizu
Missouri is right next door to where I was born in deep southern IL.

Even better supplies were to be had in MO !

30 posted on 07/06/2018 5:34:29 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: RightGeek
This is so common it’s crazy. I worked on E3 I Fort Worth and every 4th of July they would call in a fireworks violation on Rosedale street at the projects, we would respond and an they would shoot bottle rockets at us from both sides of the rode.. we would go back to the station and and they would call it in again.
31 posted on 07/06/2018 5:35:13 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: tomkat

I’d like to see a photo showing it blown off. I could
see where it maybe blew a hole in it and oil came out.


32 posted on 07/06/2018 5:36:19 PM PDT by deport
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To: RightGeek

Just another attack on civility by Mad Maxi’s knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.


33 posted on 07/06/2018 5:46:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't pass up the opportunity to use the Second Amendment today! IT'S FREE!)
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To: RightGeek
when an artillery shell was thrown underneath the truck.

Artillery shell? Do they have any idea what a real artillery round would do to a fire truck?

These reporters have no clue whatsoever.

34 posted on 07/06/2018 5:46:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Artillery shell fireworks

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35 posted on 07/06/2018 5:53:03 PM PDT by deport
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To: tomkat; real saxophonist

“And we not only survived just fine, thankyouverymuch, but such was completely unremarkable at the time.”

In Texas it was not only considered unremarkable, it was expected.

Thank you for the conversation and great memories.


36 posted on 07/06/2018 6:04:02 PM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
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To: RightGeek

Easy solution, refuse to respond to violent areas of the city. Problem solved.


37 posted on 07/06/2018 6:07:22 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: raybbr

It was a large illegal firework, a large mortar tube type.

It exploded under the truck. As oposed to hundreds of feet in the air.


38 posted on 07/06/2018 6:18:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: deport

Wow..So if they'd used one of these I guess the reporters would have said, "An Atom Bomb was thrown under the fire truck".

What a farce.

39 posted on 07/06/2018 6:21:15 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: RightGeek

“fireworks” or “Artillary shells”???


40 posted on 07/06/2018 6:21:21 PM PDT by DannyTN
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