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July 4th, 2008 • posts i've written

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Happy 4th of July, kids. Go celebrate our independence from those tea-sipping, taxing without reprezentin’, wig sporting, limp wristed, lily livered, trollops*.

Just don’t blow your hand off, cuz’ you’ve only got the two, and that pig powder turned out to be bullshit.

Did you know?

60% of injuries from fireworks in the United States occur in the month surrounding the July 4th holiday (Greene & Joholske 2006)
Between June 18 and July 18, 2005, firecrackers (26%), sparklers (17%), and rockets (17%) accounted for most of the injuries seen in emergency departments. Sparklers were associated with over half of the estimated injuries among children under 5 years, during the same time period (Greene & Joholske 2006)
In 2006, eleven people died and an estimated 9,200 were treated in emergency departments for fireworks-related injuries in the United States.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, last year we (America) imported $201.9 million dollars in fireworks from China, and exported $14.9 million of our own.
Those age 75 and up are 209 percent more likely than average to spend on backyard pyrotechnics. No surprise then that they claim 29 percent of the firework market share.

Anyone else thinking there might be a correlation between the age of those firework enthusiasts and the rate of injury?

*any other day of the year they’re our cooler, saner little cousin.