Been seeing high-flying fireworks at random times?

Seen a lot more fireworks stands in Lehigh Valley than usual, even for summer?

Well, you're not seeing stars----your neighbor Larry did just set off some consumer-grade fireworks at the basketball court up the street and it's all thanks to a bill passed by Pennsylvania State Congress in October of 2017. Prior to its pass, only ground fireworks were permitted by the creatively named Fireworks Act of 1939. But now, thanks to the experimentally titled Fireworks Law, what was previously only usable out-of-state is launching off the shelves of supermarkets and stands alike this summer.

In light of this news, surely your inner parent is pulling at your thoughts and mulling over the ways in which your reckless friend(s) may get hurt. (If you have no hang-ups, then you ARE that friend) So here are some fun activities to do instead of playing with newly legal, recreational explosives this summer:

1. Have a picnic for lunch on a day you’re free.

Luke Porter

Bring some friends to a local park for some Wawa or home-made sandwiches. Play some frisbee until you lose it in the street because infrastructure is slowly closing in on us.

OR

Bring no friends and binge on ice cream while watching other people (-lose their-) play frisbee.

2. Stay inside

Ch4nnyP

Order a pizza with some friends and binge watch some movies you guys never got to see because you were too busy working in a composed scramble to lessen the weight of the crippling debt that will probably haunt you for the rest of your wonder years.

OR

Order a pizza and eat it yourself while listening to sad indie music and thinking about all the debt you'll never pay off.

3. Go to a concert.

Chaz McGregor

Let your hair down and rock out to your favorite artists with friends while people abuse drugs and alcohol around you to escape the reality that the rest of their adult life will be spent taking orders from some hire up while stuck at a desk---an existence they thought they had escaped when they graduated college yet found themselves in an even more colorless manifestation.

OR

Get front row seats and pretend you and your favorite artist switched bodies. Pretend you're there to convince them to switch back like in an 80s movie and not taking the advice of a random article online instead of buying and launching some badass roman candles.

If you'd rather peruse those not-at-all-sketchy firework stands that popped up in the grass next to a gas station, be my guest---its legal after all. All I ask is that you try to keep all your fingers this summer.