Waching daily Jan 2 2017

ILLEGAL FIREWORKS COULD SEND YOU

TO JAIL FOR UP TO 5

YEARS.

IT'S A PRETTY STIFF PENALTY, BUT

PEOPLE ARE

STILL WILLING TO RISK THEIR

FREEDOM AND

THEIR LIVES TO MAKE THEIR NEW

YEAR START

THE USE

OF ILLEGAL AERIALS?

ELYSSA AREVALO WENT TO A

LAWMAKER TO TRY

KATHY....THIS DEBATE SEEMS TO

COME UP EVERY YEAR...I SPOKE

WITH CITY

COUNCILWOMAN ANN KOBAYASHI AND

SHE TELLS

ME SIMPLY PUT...PEOPLE JUST NEED

TO BE

DANGEROUS TRYING TO CUT BACK ON

THE USE OF ILLEGAL

FIREWORKS AS THEY WANTED....SUCH

AS

SPARKLERS AND FOUNTAINS IN AN

EFFORT

TO KEEP AERIAL FIREWORKS OUT OF

THE

SKIES

IT'S UNCLEAR IF THAT ACTUALLY

WORKED, BUT

THAT DID LEAD TO LATER

COMPLAINTS ABOUT TOO

allow fountains and other

harmless kind of fireworks but I

don't think we'll be pushing

that especially after what

happened"

"thats what makes it hard to do

the really harmless

fountains because things like

this happen and then it casts

this big black cloud over all

fireworks"

only so much lawmakers can do to

keep people safe.

"we all have to be responsible

for our children, for ourselves

so we cant really legislate

people into being responsible"

CITED FOR USING ILLEGAL

FIREWORKS OVERNIGHT,