Red Bank Makes You Pay To See Fireworks

[ttwashere]

Heh, My buddy Matthew Roth (he writes at HeadKickLegend and BloodyElbow was talking about this on Facebook. Hilarious stuff.

"How Red Bank gone charge people to look at the fireworks? Like a dude can't look up for free."

http://www.app.com/article/20110512/NJNEWS/305120117/Red-Bank-OKs-fee-for-fireworks-spot

Watching KaBoom fireworks may cost a little ka-ching this year if you want a prime viewing spot in Riverside Gardens Park.

Borough Council members voted Wednesday night to allow the KaBoom Fireworks on the Navesink Committee to charge $10 admission for adults and $5 for children over age 10 to view the July 3 KaBoom fireworks.

In other matters, the council voted to unlock the gates at Count Basie Park earlier, so residents can get in a walk or other exercise before going to work, and agreed to apply for a $500,000 state grant to rebuild baseball and other playing fields there.

 

[Mr. Toast]

Dude, that is crazy. I can't believe some place would do that. Last year, we went to the city to watch fireworks and it was awesome

 

[Amatatomba]

Essentially they're just charging for a spot to sit & watch them, so that makes sense a lot more sense. I've been to places before where they charged you to get into where they were shooting off the fireworks (there were also booths and stuff set up, but everyone was pretty much there for the fireworks)

 

[cookieboy17]

Stupid world, they make fireworks illegal so we can't use them and no we gotta pay to watch other jerks use them?

 

[Amatatomba]

You don't have to pay to watch them. You just have to pay to get close to where they set them off.

 

[Justin5267]

Our town shows off fireworks in the beginning of Summer, but it's free. I only went once though. On 4th of July I go to the lake. That there is a firework show.

 

[ttwashere]

Stupid world, they make fireworks illegal so we can't use them and no we gotta pay to watch other jerks use them?

ridiculous