The other day, my brother, some friends, and I went onto my roof around 11 and started shooting off bottle rockets and mortars - good times (of course, the
legality of such actions in New York State may or may not be in question ;-)). For the 4th of July, people all around me were shooting off fireworks - firecrackers, bottle rockets, mortars, more fireworks, etc. I think there were so many people that the police just gave up on trying to crack down on it. There was this one person a neighborhood or two over - the guy must have had over a thousand dollars worth of mortars and the like. He went on until about midnite or so... I have no idea how the cops didn't find him - a lot of what he used were clear beacons right to his front yard. But then again, I wasn't complaining about it.
To quote
the Greats, "Celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it!"