Friday Funny? Happy 4th of July Weekend

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1. Nice X-rays. My mama trained me very young how to deal with fireworks and I still have both eyes and hands. That was in the state of Illinois where class C fireworks were illegal too.
   I developed a caution while young and it did well for me. Since I was a kid, there was no alcohol involved. Went to a party sponsored by a Urologist when I was a resident. He brought out this giant box of all kinds of fireworks, shells, etc. His back lot was perfect with an unoccupied drop off into a ravine. That’s where we shot the shells. Fireworks were kept up close to the house and the “action” occurred far away at the edge of the ravine. The back lot was very long. The Urologist supervised and obviously knew what he was doing. Me I had vast knowledge from when I shot them as a kid and had a lot of fun lighting them off myself.
   I remember he took what looked like an automobile fusee that had a long fuse in the middle. The Urologist held it, someone lit the very long fuse and he threw it into the ravine. Waited awhile and there was a heck of a report with a 50 foot mushroom cloud of cordite (the smoke/ fumes emitted when gunpowder goes off). Said it was equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite. Continued with firecrackers and star shells until the fuddy duddy neighbors called to complain. The Urologist apologized and we stopped the firing. We hadn’t even got through half the box of fireworks either! Shows how big a box it was. I don’t know why the neighbors weren’t out in their backyards watching the show. Oh well, nice memories and no one was hurt by this orgy of people firing fireworks either.

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   But if you are an idiot, be a drunk idiot. (If you’re in Canada). And it’s not even your independence day Monday! Canada Day was Friday. So take off, you hosers!

   A Calgary man who, while naked, broke into the home of a university professor and attacked her with a broom handle has seen his acquittal reinstated after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the defence of self-induced extreme intoxication is available in cases of violence.

   The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled on on Friday that deal with whether the defence of extreme intoxication to the point of automatism — a term describing unconscious, involuntary behaviour — is available to those who chose to take intoxicants and then end up committing acts of violence.

   The case wound its way through all levels of court as judges grappled with the complicated and controversial Section 33.1 of the Criminal Code, which prohibits the use of the defence in certain circumstances.

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   The prosecution pointed out there is an “indisputable” correlation between intoxication and violent crime and argued that those who take substances and then lose control “must not be rewarded with immunity from criminal prosecution.”

   “One who chooses to self-intoxicate to the point of losing all conscious control and risking their life and creating a risk of injury and perhaps loss of life to other people is not engaged in morally innocent behaviour,” wrote prosecutor Deborah Alford.

   Oh yeah?

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