"rhys" wrote in message
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hugh snip

All I know is from "flare-offs" run by my boat club in which
out-of-date flares are disposed of under supervision. We are adjacent
to a small airport, and we had to get permission from them (because
firing into a flight path would be nasty) and from the cops because we
wanted them to ignore what looked like about a hundred SOS signals in
five minutes.

Very festive, loud and it took a week for the gulls to resume
crapping.

R.


That should give Parallax food for thought!