03 Jul 2006
With injuries up, feds eye fireworks laws

Man Picking His NoseMore Safety Nazis™ on the loose: but I sincerely wish the executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association would shut up, before she gives the bureaucratic bozos any ideas for mandated warning labels:

"The largest safety problem is product misuse rather than product failures, [Julie] Heckman said. "It's teenagers having bottle rocket wars, parents giving sparklers to 2-year-olds and people having too much to drink and putting firecrackers up their nose."

Warning: Placing fireworks up your nose, especially while drunk, can cause spontaneous rhinoplasty!

AP - On the eve of the nation's noisiest holiday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission responded to growing fireworks injuries by quietly reopening the question of how it should police explosives for backyard entertainment.

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