Wuss Alexandria and the war against fun

http://www.alexandrianews.org/2011/06/fireworks-banned-in-the-city-of-alexandria/

It's always amusing to see the gross and primitive hypocrisy displayed by bureaucrats and city fathers. There's no mention here that for almost my entire life, Old Town was the location of the warehouses for Interarms, the largest independent war merchant in the world at that time. Two blocks' worth of explosives, guns, and other nasties, all cosily nestled amidst the colonial tinderbox of our cobblestoned streets, and with less security than you'd find at the average store of the GAP. Don't tell me about sparklers, you wussies....