San Diego’s fireworks show, the “Big Bay Boom,” was a total bust last night when a signal malfunction caused operators to light every single firework at once, 5 minutes before the show was supposed to start. Three different barges in the bay each shot off hundreds of fireworks all at once. What was supposed to be a seventeen minute show was over in a gigantic, booming flash, and then it was done, leaving a stunned silence filled with the sound of car alarms going off across the city and the sound of “Born in the USA” hanging in the air.
Check it out the video below, and see YouTube and CNN for more.
July 05, 2012 at 3:05 pm, Sunami Garcia said:
Paaa haaa haaaa… That sucks! :O/
July 05, 2012 at 3:54 pm, Cyndi Hunter said:
Best. Fireworks. Ever!
July 05, 2012 at 4:09 pm, Travis Boyle said:
That is awesome! I love the annoying car alarm in the back- accentuating the chaos.
July 05, 2012 at 4:47 pm, Millicent Broderick said:
That must have tilted the earth on its axis.
July 05, 2012 at 5:29 pm, Doe Becker said:
What a disappointment that had to have been. Best ever here at the ocean..we saw everything right off our ocean front balcony,,, yippee, no mob of people to walk through!
July 05, 2012 at 6:25 pm, Kathleen King said:
Sorry but that was cool.
July 05, 2012 at 7:01 pm, Abbie Hitchen said:
I was wondering why it seemed really short and boring!!! Laaame
July 05, 2012 at 9:36 pm, Brooks Keys said:
I remember going with my sister to an overnight July 4, 1976 bicentennial celebration at Federal Hill, Baltimore. At the culmination a barge was supposed to fire a pyrotechnic then Fort McHenry was to respond. We had to suffer through a night of horrible entertainers like Marty Allen doing some stupid pantomime of American history. When I finally came time for the fireworks something was lighted on the barge and I noticed two men hastily diving off of it. Like San Diego the entire compliment of pyrotechnics on the barge went off at once. My sister and I should have driven the forty miles to Washington D.C. for the best demonstration in the U.S.
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