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Fireworks, backyard grills, backyard barbeques, holiday travel. It is a great recipe for the
weekend, isn't it. But before you start the party, Andy Crouppen from Brown and Crouppen
joins us with some safety tips for The Fourth. And you've brought something. You look like...
what is going on? What's going on?
Well Carol, I thought today I would do it a little differently.
Okay. Let's do it a little differently.
Let's learn by what NOT to do. Give me a match.
I'm not going to give you a match!
Obviously he is taking fireworks out.
Well, it's the Fourth of July. Everyone loves fireworks, smoke bombs. Everyone loves -- for
some insane reason -- giving a 2-year-old a sparkler.
And you shouldn't. Not that young. Not that young.
Of course not. I think people think of them, since they don't blow up or go 2 miles into
the sky, they think of them as safe, but I mean, you are giving a child something that
burns at 500 to 1000 degrees -- I don't know -- to just kind of wave around in the air.
Yeah. Supervise your kids when you are giving them something flammable.
And we do have the water here for 2 reasons: Because you should have water with your fireworks
and water when you are barbequeing... have water close by because something may happen.
Also, if you are going on a long road trip, it doesn't hurt -- and we are skipping around
a little bit -- it doesn't hurt to have some water or other safety equipment in your car
just in case. You never know what is going to happen.
And people always wonder -- and I am wondering this as well, because I kind of like fireworks
myself -- where is it legal and where is it not? We want to leave it to the professionals
first of all, but it is not legal everywhere... for you to do this in your backyard or in
your cul-de-sac.
It's not. I think people are a little confused, because in St. Louis city and county, it is
not legal. Period.
Okay. Not.
However, you drive over to St. Charles and a little further west of St. Louis, and there
is a fireworks stand every 20 feet. True. And so I think people feel comfortable going
over there, buying them, bringing them back, but I will tell you: When I was younger, my
father was lighting off some fireworks... I mean a friend of mine was lighting off some
fire works...
Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Go ahead. Go ahead.
... at a friend's house, and it was... you know, you have a few fireworks left over after
the Fourth of July, so it was a few weeks later, and the Clayton Police Department came
with their guns drawn in the back because somebody had reported gunshots.
And that friend of yours was mortified.
Yes. Yes.
Okay. Now some of us may be driving this holiday weekend. Make sure your car is in order. And
you guys have been making so much fun of my little cute jumper cables. Well, they look
like "Honey I Shrunk The Jumper Cables."
But they work. They... look how small they are. Look at that.
And they look like you have needed them a lot.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is true. But everybody doesn't have these, and you should have these.
I would say to just get a new battery if you are using them that often.
Well I'm not. I'm not. Plus having a flash light.
A flash light.
The point is to be safe when you travel.
Exactly. Especially if you have children in the car, you don't want to get stranded somewhere
and have no way of getting the car moving along again without calling a tow truck. It
is so much easier to have a pair of jumper cables. You can generally flag down another
car. People are pretty courteous and stop.
Right. Right. And there are cell phones now.
And remember this? You may love it, but this doesn't mix with probably most of your...
with fireworks, with your travel.
Yeah. It should go without saying, but if you are going to be drinking, I think most
people realize: Don't drink and drive. But I think a big problem -- especially on holiday
weekend -- but if you are going to drink, it is just as dangerous to operate a boat
or a jetski or a bicycle. So be careful. I feel like this is becoming the common-sense
segment with Carol and Andy, but...
You need to be reminded.
Just some common sense and you can avoid a lot of problems.
Thank you very much. They do work. I don't care how tiny...