12-29-2019, 10:01 AM
It's naive to think that only animals are victimized by fireworks. Every year there are injuries to humans (often children) from accidents and in some years, Honolulu emergency rooms are filled with asthma victims choking from the smoke. One police officer friend told me, "All we would really have to do is walk a bomb sniffing dog through the incoming container yards at certain seasons, and they would intercept nearly all of the illegal fireworks." He added that this would never be done because it would be offensive to the "local culture."