Fireworks Money

[terracore]

left all the trash and debris from the celebration in the street...

It brings bad luck to clean up the debris.. seriously..

From.. https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelgu...ackers.htm

Many families will not sweep the red paper left by firecrackers immediately because they believe that the act of sweeping on this day is associated with sweeping wealth away.

This really happens.  Sweep it up too soon and you'll risk a fire in your rubbish. I told the kids to leave their (legal) fireworks garbage in our driveway.  When I picked it up the next morning some of the bigger ones were still warm.

There's a guy in our neighborhood who bought his massive amount of illegal fireworks (and a jacked up pickup with illegally huge wheels and illegal blackout windows) from the proceeds of his illegal cockfighting business.  Half the neighbors hate  him, and the other half sit in their lawn chairs applauding and shouting "Yippee!"  Of course, he's compensating for some deficiency, and if someone told him he was a criminal, he'd become righteously indignant and say they didn't respect his culture.

Well you said it on a public forum.  The thing about illegal activity is that attracts other illegal activity.  If you want illegal fireworks, don't ask around the church pew, go to a cock fight and inquire.  When I was going through animal cruelty and neglect investigation training when we got to the bloodsports section they were adamant that if any of us actually locate the activities we were studying to STOP INVESTIGATING immediately.  Get help.  Because other activities are going to be congregating besides animal cruelty and gambling (drugs and other contraband, prostitution, etc).  They frequently involve crossing state lines so the feds want to get involved.  They only want to raid the operation once and catch everything.  It's not something a humane society employee wants to be poking their noses in themselves. The animal cruelty is the small potatoes.