Fireworks Fails and Other Independence Day Blunders Caught on Camera — wired.com

As this past weekend proved, fireworks remain the most American thing you can do with your Independence Day. It doesn’t matter if you can’t even see them because it’s only 8 p.m. and the sun doesn’t set for another hour, someone will be so excited by what John Oliver calls “sparkly guns you can fire in the sky” that they’ll set them off anyway just to hear them make their slight screams and upsetting-to-dogs-everywhere pops. But what is it about fireworks—and many of the other Fourth of July festivities—that make them quite so compelling, considering their potential for, well, blowing up in the faces of those planning them?

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