Safety First!

It seems to be Independence Day! America's Birthday. Sort of. One of the birthdays anyway. On this day 231 years ago someone wrote a document and other people signed it and independence was declared. The king was a fink and decided to tax people without giving them a seat in Parliament.

And how do we celebrate the day? We get drunk as hoot owls, BBQ stuff, and play with deadly explosives! Yes deadly explosives! An American tradition.



Here we can see what happens if you are made out of foam and hold onto the deadly explosives for too long.

Videos like this is why people get hurt. I do not know about you, but I have never seen fireworks this powerful. Well not the ones I did not make myself out of a pound of rifle powder. But I never did that. Making illegal fireworks is illegal. And probably dangerous. You could be like one of those foam dummies.

But like I was saying - come on! Yea you can get hurt - but you are not going to blow your head off! You are not going to blow your arm off up to your elbow. You may get a nasty burn if you set off bottle rockets that are in your pocket. But you have to be REALLY dumb to do this. Really dumb and wearing black socks with Crocs. But nobody could possibly be that dumb, or ever wear socks with sandals.

OK well almost nobody.

My point is they make these "safety videos" that are clearly rigged. The explosives used are pretty substantial. More substantial than anything I have ever seen for sale. Why not just be honest? Yea you can loose a finger or two. Is that not enough? Why make it look like you can loose your head? Be honest.

I decided not to bother the nice people at the dump with my oversize flatbed trailer. I came up with a far better system!

The County gave everyone these nice 96 gallon green garbage cans. They have the special trucks with the claw that come by, grab the can, dump it, and drive off. It is a one man show.

The neighbors are not in town. So I get this idea. Why not just take their can and fill it with crap from the trailer? And then fill my can with crap from the trailer. Leave both on the curb and let the truck come and empty them. Then put the neighbor's can back and nobody will ever know.

Dump or no dump - I will get my shit out of here either way! Take that Miami-Dade County Department Of Solid Waste! Your trailer policy is irrelevant. I found a way around it.

Have a great Independence Day. Do not blow off any body parts with firecrackers.