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By Margaret Lyons in News on Jun 25, 2008 7:59PM

Someone set off fireworks inside Tasty Sub restaurant on W 16th Street around 1am today. No one was injured, but the explosion damaged the restaurant's ceiling and broke some bullet-proof glass. And over the weekend, police arrested a man in Joliet for throwing an M-80 firecracker into a pub. No one was seriously hurt in that explosion, either, but it occurs to us that if people would just read Follow My Leader, we'd all be able to take firework and firecracker safety a lot more seriously.