What in the world????

[BlingxBling]

This was an article found in the Times Leader, a paper of North Eastern Pennsylvania. What are they doing up there on the Island?

18,000 pounds of fireworks seized in N.Y.
Associated Press
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. - Police officers who stopped a truck that was tailgating a fuel tanker on a highway say they made a potentially explosive discovery - 18,000 pounds of fireworks.

"It would have devastated a quarter-mile radius if they had gone off," Suffolk County Police Department spokesman Robert Boden said Wednesday.

The truck carrying the explosives was found to be dangerously overloaded when it was pulled over Monday for a routine safety check, police said.

A police dog named Nitro - a German shepherd added to the department's anti-terrorism efforts after the Sept. 11 attacks - sniffed out the fireworks.

The driver of the truck, whose manifest said it was carrying paper goods, brought the fireworks from Maryland for illegal resale, police said.

State law prohibits the sale or possession of fireworks without a permit. The driver, who was with his adult son, faces multiple summonses for carrying hazardous materials and driving an overweight truck.

To demonstrate how powerful 18,000 pounds of fireworks could be, police exploded about 25 pounds of the sky rockets, Roman candles and other fireworks inside a car at the department's firearms range in Westhampton. The car was destroyed in a massive fireball

[W. J.]

Fireworks are a big market item on LI. In their P.R. display, they blew up a small portion of what was confiscated. If history is any lesson, the cops divided up the rest to take home with them to entertain their family's and neighbors. The "Law" only applies to us 'civilians', not the high and mighty, run a red light/stop sign, speeding cops here on LI. The joke is, "How come you never see a news story about a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts getting robbed? Because they are so well guarded (by our local cops)".

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