Kaboom

ID4 just finished. Wonderfull time, my bosses' family looked after me well and invited me to a pre-firework nosh up. Awesome ribs, nachos, key lime pie.
Fireworks were typical 'oooo, ahhhhh, wowwwww'. There was a huge barge moored off the island that went nuts setting stuff off, really, really impressive.
Then it all went a bit weird.
Seeing as the entire population of the island was on a thin bit of beach, I was a tad surprised at the fireworks being set off amongst the crowd. Right near the waterline, there was some pretty heavy munitions going off. We were taking bets on who'd be first to lost a finger. Apparently, the usual stuff is pretty good (loads more bang and spraying of sparkly stuff in random directions than I'm used to in England). Where it got a bit crazy was the fireworks people had brought from the Indian Reservations that don't meet the usual standards of safety. Some of them going off was causing a few of us to take cover. Real 'piggin el, what the hell was that, why are my ears ringing, I can see people shouting but can't actually hear what they're saying because of this high pitched screaming noise in my ears' stuff.
Oh well, don't think they had any fatalites, but there's going to be some mutton jeff's about tomorrow, I'm sure. Tried to explain when we have fireworks going off, but sounds pretty wierd saying we celebrate the bloke who nearly blew the houses of parliment up 400 years ago.