Kitty Hawk – Walt Glod, a visitor from upstate New York, had to give his family some bad news today. Apparently the fireworks he procured in Pennsylvania are illegal to use on the Outer Banks.
“Sorry team,” He said to a disappointed family, “They are not allowed down here, we can’t use them.”
“But Dad, everyone else is using them,” His daughter Allison replied.
“Don’t worry sweetie,” I’m sure the police are writing tickets to punish all those people breaking the law. I mean they wouldn’t just make a comically unenforceable law that they expect no one to follow, and then waste time and money to put it on signs and websites.”
“But I wanted to make things go boom,” Johnathan his 6 year old cried.
“Cheer up buddy, we still have sparklers,” was Mr. Glod’s poorly received answer.
“Honey I’m sure they just have to say it for insurance reasons or something,” His wife, Jeanne said, trying to change his mind.
“The law is the law, and we will not raise our children to break it just because they want to have fun. We love coming down here in the Summer and we should respect the rules of the place,” He said firmly. He elaborated, “Renting a house down here for one week does not allow us to make up our own rules. What kind of people would that make us, if we just came down here and did whatever we wanted?”
By this point the family had gone back to whatever they were doing before he started talking, but he decided he could convince them if he just kept talking.
“Look here I am on the Outer Banks website. It says right here. ‘Dare County prohibits the possession of any pyrotechnics which launch or propel into the air, or which explode making a sound or report, or do anything which could in anyway be considered fun by anyone launching or watching them. Sparklers, fountains and ground displays are allowed in some towns that have a sick sense of humor, but other towns ban them all outright.’ See I told you. No one else will be shooting off any of these cool kind of fireworks on the 4th. Just you wait and see.”