Idk, Fireworks can get pretty expensive pretty quickly. $900 sounds like a lot of firepower, but it mayve just been a few dozen mortars that wouldve been over in five minutes tops.

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In other words, nothing that's fun!

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PA residents can buy fireworks, but the selection is limited. Basically sparklers and smoke bombs. You have to show an out of state ID to get access items like mortars.

I'm not sure if this is still the case, but when I last bought fireworks in PA you had to show an out-of-state license, as PA residents couldn't buy fireworks in PA. I guess that's payback for all the liquor stores right across PA borders to get around the stupid 'state store' monopoly?

I read the NJ State Police were following cars back over the NJ border after buying up fireworks in the stores in PA. This was a couple of years ago.

I buy some stuff for my nephews, but I don't bring it to NJ. I take it to another state where fireworks are legal (prices and selection is much better in PA).

Nope. Makes perfect sense to me.

I don't mind illegal fireworks as they generally only affect those using them. You rarely hear of houses burning down or innocent bystanders hurt.

RIP the guy in Maine who tried to light a mortar OFF HIS HEAD.

RIP JPP's fingers.

This is the second or third time recently that someone was coincidentally pulled over as they were approaching the tunnel and found to be with contraband (drugs, fireworks, etc.) I am cool with the police doing their job and pursuing criminals, but it seems a little coincidental that people are pulled over "randomly" and they happen to be carrying sizable amounts of contraband. I wonder if, as a result of all the grief and bad publicity the NYPD received some time ago for doing surveillance outside fireworks stands in PA, then following cars back to NYC and arresting people as they got out of the tunnels, if perhaps the NYPD is now simply passing along the intel to the PAPD and letting them do the search and seizure and arrests. The end result is the same, but without the grief or bad PR. Too far fetched?

knowing the perpetual Phantom Fireworks sale where everything is buy 1 get one free, it's more like eleventy billion dollars worth of fireworks.

Erika Solorzano | The Jersey Journal

Port Authority police stopped a Newark man driving a car with tinted windows in Jersey City yesterday morning, and when they looked inside police found $900 worth of fireworks, police said.

Jerry Colon, 30, was nearing the Holland Tunnel toll plaza when he was stopped, Port Authority police spokesman Joe Pentangelo said. The fireworks, which police said were purchased in Pennsylvania, were spread out across the back seat of his car.

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