A little Triumph spin on this fireworks thread...
Around '85, I was in my second year in Dallas, Texas... a recession was hitting
Texas big-time and I lost my job...
Times were tough... and there wasn't much money...
My best friend and I drove my Triumph TR 7 just a few miles out... into the next
county/city where fireworks were legal...
We bought the fireworks... with about $30.00... which was really all we had to
our
names... and we just felt life had been so bad lately... that we wanted to treat
ourselves and have a little fun... (We were living on Tacos from a place that
had
'em at 4 for a dollar!)
We turned the car around for home.... fireworks in the trunk... drove 4
blocks...crossed the city line... and a bunch of cops pulled us over... They
confiscated our fireworks... no paperwork... no ticket... just took the
fireworks
and put them in their trunk. I know I had watery eyes... and when I looked at
my
friend... he was swelled up equally... It was really wrong... it was a sting
operation that probably just stocked the officer's home firework's displays...
It
was the 4th of July... it was simply unamerican to do that... We hadn't set
off
anything... Who's to say we weren't crossing the border to have lunch? It was
so
wrong... and it didn't matter that we told the officers how much that
expenditure
meant to us...
I think I left Dallas a few months after that.... where St. Petersburg
(Florida)
police pulled me over 3 times..... as I tried to cross their city in an old
beat up
Mustang... trying to get to Sarasota... but that's another story... and
belongs on
a FORD newsgroup...
--Justin
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