Remember Sung Young Moon? He headed up a cult and later bought a Washington newspaper to print trash and actually crowned himself King of something. I was staying in Scarsboro north of NYC one 4th of July and saw that a fireworks display was planned nearby at the Sung Young Moon estate. Being anti cult myself I figured I would just go for the fireworks. The Estate and grounds were Palatial and grand. There were many families with their children picnicing on blankets and running around. Suddenly a sound system squealed and a Koren voiced started ranting raving. When it was good nd dark the crowd strted to get restless. I don't know if Moon himself ever spoke but finally the fire and brimstone rant was over and the firworks began with screams of terror. Scarsboro must have had some local ordinace regarding the height of firework displays or some blind oversight had occurred.
Instaed of going off 200 or 300 feet high these fireworks were exploding at 50 to a hundred feet. Some cannisters still with propellant left fell back to Earth to cause havoc among the picnics.
Mothers were shielding children, blankets were catching on fire and I was yelling "its a miracle I can walk". We were all headed to the exits or what we thought were exits when we heard fire truck sirens.
It was a night to remember.