WTF?

[mbarrick]

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?

Comments

[mermaid23.livejournal.com]

Some rich guys birthday? Or wedding? Or anniversary?

Some people have WAY too much money!

[malys.livejournal.com]

I was just going to post asking the same thing. I was walking home and then... what the hell :O WHY?

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Just bizarre. I've been searching the City of Vancouver website for some clue and can't find anything.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Best explaination so far.

[malys.livejournal.com]

Someone in the Vancouver community said they appeared to have been fired from a barge? :O

LOOKS LIKE A MYSTERY

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Definitely. They were over the water between Bute and Thurlow.

[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

[malys.livejournal.com]

Or... they could be launching the Shaw Tower. I guess.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that in the Vancouver community, too. But I thought people had been living there for a while now?

[malys.livejournal.com]

OH I give up. I hope I never find out the source of these mysterious fireworks.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

LOL

Damn fireworks!!

[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...

[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...

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were doing it for a shot in a film?

[kitsune-13.livejournal.com]

actually they were for Shaw...some promo for releasing a new phone line thingie..

[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.

[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.

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

This is true.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Mystery solved - it was a launch event at the Shaw Tower for Shaw's new local telephone service.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Mystery solved - it was a launch event at the Shaw Tower for Shaw's new local telephone service.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Mystery solved - it was a launch event at the Shaw Tower for Shaw's new local telephone service.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Mystery solved - it was a launch event at the Shaw Tower for Shaw's new local telephone service.

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

Ah yes the voip lines...