WTF?

Jan. 11th, 2006 07:32 pm
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Someone just blew up about $100,000 worth of fireworks in Coal Harbour. For what? Weee! It's January 11th! Let's have a 30-minute fireworks show!

Does anyone have any idea what this might have been for?

Date: 2006-01-12 03:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mermaid23.livejournal.com
Some rich guys birthday? Or wedding? Or anniversary?

Some people have WAY too much money!

Date: 2006-01-12 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Best explaination so far.

Date: 2006-01-12 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitsune-13.livejournal.com
actually they were for Shaw...some promo for releasing a new phone line thingie..

Date: 2006-01-12 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malys.livejournal.com
I was just going to post asking the same thing. I was walking home and then... what the hell :O WHY?

Date: 2006-01-12 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Just bizarre. I've been searching the City of Vancouver website for some clue and can't find anything.

Date: 2006-01-12 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malys.livejournal.com
Someone in the Vancouver community said they appeared to have been fired from a barge? :O

LOOKS LIKE A MYSTERY

Date: 2006-01-12 04:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Definitely. They were over the water between Bute and Thurlow.

Date: 2006-01-12 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malys.livejournal.com
Perhaps evil masterminds were using them to distract us while they... robbed a bank vault or stole valuable artifacts from a museum! :O

Date: 2006-01-12 04:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malys.livejournal.com
Or... they could be launching the Shaw Tower. I guess.

Date: 2006-01-12 04:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Yeah, I saw that in the Vancouver community, too. But I thought people had been living there for a while now?

Date: 2006-01-12 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malys.livejournal.com
OH I give up. I hope I never find out the source of these mysterious fireworks.

Date: 2006-01-12 05:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
LOL

Damn fireworks!!

Date: 2006-01-12 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Mystery solved - it was a launch event at the Shaw Tower for Shaw's new local telephone service.
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Date: 2006-01-12 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Yeah. Carnival Cruise Lines likes to have fireworks when their ships go out - but not like this. The was a major display, and, of course, it's nowhere near cruise ship season yet. I remain baffled.

Date: 2006-01-12 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Mystery solved - it was a launch event at the Shaw Tower for Shaw's new local telephone service.

Date: 2006-01-12 07:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seymour-glass.livejournal.com
it's funny when i was walking to catch the bus for hockey i could hear low rumbling through my earphones...i thought it sounded like fireworks and when i got to burrard i could see them reflecting off the buildings...don't know why though...

Date: 2006-01-12 08:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valerian.livejournal.com
Heh, yeah at first I thought it was just another "sinkhole" forming. LOL!

Actually it was rather impressive. I immediately assumed someone was practicing for the Festival of Light thing they do every August...

Date: 2006-01-12 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Mystery solved - it was a launch event at the Shaw Tower for Shaw's new local telephone service.

Date: 2006-01-12 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyvermath.livejournal.com
Maybe they were doing it for a shot in a film?

Date: 2006-01-12 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
That occurred to us, too. But for what fireworks cost, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to use CGI.

Date: 2006-01-12 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Mystery solved - it was a launch event at the Shaw Tower for Shaw's new local telephone service.

Date: 2006-01-12 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyvermath.livejournal.com
Ah yes the voip lines...
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