"No, up until the 1800's, special occasions often featured human sacrifices which also involved bloody participants who hopefully understood that it was just cultural. Could happen to anyone."
"The last documented sacrifices were said to have occurred in 1818. Maybe the fireworks came just in time to fill the void."
"What do human sacrifices and fireworks culturally have in common?"
""94% of citations are dropped""
Well, regardless of this case being culture or for profit or both, the fireworks that caused 3 deaths, injured 20 plus people, two of them children 3 and 5 years of age, now having to have 6 of the injured transported in a military transport jet to the mainland for treatments that will require months of surgeries and involve hundreds of medical professionals proves that whatever the answer to the question is, it's an abject failure.
Seizures of tons of illegal fireworks is a good start. Where is the arrest, convictions and prison sentences, when, as terracore points out, 94% of citations are not even prosecuted. If the same tonnage of seized fireworks was marijuana, a hell of a lot of people would be sitting behind bars.
Another point I'd like to bring up here - had this happened in any big city on the mainland - LA, New York, Chicago, Boston, Denver..., we would have already had numerous arrests, including the arrest of any of the injured who were directly involved. Wrongful death lawsuits would have already been filed. But because it's here in Hawaii, the laid-back approach to anything law enforcement takes front and center, and it's just a "freak accident" that could "happen to anybody" and “It’s a tradition” that “Ever since I was a kid, we did them.”
So, in this case, Hawaii got its culture of fireworks, some schmucks made a huge profit, and by golly, we got human sacrifice back! A Hawaiian trifecta.
"The last documented sacrifices were said to have occurred in 1818. Maybe the fireworks came just in time to fill the void."
"What do human sacrifices and fireworks culturally have in common?"
""94% of citations are dropped""
Well, regardless of this case being culture or for profit or both, the fireworks that caused 3 deaths, injured 20 plus people, two of them children 3 and 5 years of age, now having to have 6 of the injured transported in a military transport jet to the mainland for treatments that will require months of surgeries and involve hundreds of medical professionals proves that whatever the answer to the question is, it's an abject failure.
Seizures of tons of illegal fireworks is a good start. Where is the arrest, convictions and prison sentences, when, as terracore points out, 94% of citations are not even prosecuted. If the same tonnage of seized fireworks was marijuana, a hell of a lot of people would be sitting behind bars.
Another point I'd like to bring up here - had this happened in any big city on the mainland - LA, New York, Chicago, Boston, Denver..., we would have already had numerous arrests, including the arrest of any of the injured who were directly involved. Wrongful death lawsuits would have already been filed. But because it's here in Hawaii, the laid-back approach to anything law enforcement takes front and center, and it's just a "freak accident" that could "happen to anybody" and “It’s a tradition” that “Ever since I was a kid, we did them.”
So, in this case, Hawaii got its culture of fireworks, some schmucks made a huge profit, and by golly, we got human sacrifice back! A Hawaiian trifecta.
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