San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 5, 2012 @04:32AM from the san-antonio's-went-right-to-plan dept.

First time accepted submitter fotoguzzi writes "Garden State Fireworks is investigating how the entire Fourth of July show was launched after a signal was sent to the barges that would set the timing for the rest of the show after the introduction. Can anyone suggest how such a trivial step could go so disastrously wrong?" It's not the first time such a thing has happened, either.

15 of 241 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Just Like My First Time by eldavojohn · 2012-07-05 04:37 · Score: 5, Funny

But what an awesome 15 seconds that must have been!
Yep, just like my first time ... she didn't seem to think so though.

--
My work here is dung.
1. Re:Just Like My First Time by steelfood · 2012-07-05 06:24 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Finally! A topic we can use sex analogies to describe!
  No wonder there are so few comments.
  
  --
  "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
I think we call that... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-05 04:37 · Score: 4, Funny

...premature Californication....
Nothing unique....so I hear by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-05 04:38 · Score: 5, Funny

I hear that happens to every fireworks show at some point in its life. It just needs to relax, take some stress off and not worry about how it performs. Just enjoy the show.
Common problem... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-05 04:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Now I know how my wife feels.
1. Re:Common problem... by DoofusOfDeath · 2012-07-05 05:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You give her 15 seconds of fireworks so intense they can be seen in the next state?
  I don't think you need to worry about her cheating on you.
Decimal Poine by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-05 04:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place
or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane
detail.
Re:Orban, UK by craigwilkie · 2012-07-05 05:13 · Score: 3, Funny

Which bit of "scotland" in the URL you posted did you not understand?
Re:You shouldn't have made her pay for parking (n/ by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-05 05:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Leper! Outcast! Unclean!
The real explanation by dkleinsc · 2012-07-05 05:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Meriadoc Brandybuck, and Peregrin Took - I might have known!

--
I am officially gone from /. Long live http://www.soylentnews.com/
Re:Orban, UK by localman57 · 2012-07-05 05:27 · Score: 1, Funny

I can read it just fine. It's usally when the Scotts try to talk that I can't understand...
Not surprised by csnydermvpsoft · 2012-07-05 05:34 · Score: 4, Funny

Among the accomplishments listed on the Garden State Fireworks (pyrotechnics company responsible for the show) web site:

Statue of Liberty Bicentennial Celebration
That time, they managed to shoot off the show a whole century early!
Re:Wasn't there... by HangingChad · 2012-07-05 06:16 · Score: 3, Funny

The best part was the way everyone thought that was the opening. Then it dawns, somewhat reluctantly, that was the whole show.

--
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Re:What are people complaining about? by SlippyToad · 2012-07-05 07:36 · Score: 3, Funny

Can't really see what was so awesome about a big cloud of glowing smoke.
The Universe is pretty awesome, IMHO.

--
One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / the next it's rolling over me / I can get back on / I can get back on
Re:Fire One by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-05 08:27 · Score: 4, Funny

While looking at their web site I found this quote:
"FireOne is the only system in the world capable of firing multiple firing modules and multiple cues completely simultaneously - zero time dispertion between firings. The system can simultaneously fire any number of Firing Modules"
Found at this URL: "http://www.fireone.com/system_spec.htm"