Twitter users get the wrong idea after LA mayor tweets video of firework blowing up a watermelon

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted out a video of an exploding watermelon in order to promote firework safety ahead of July 4, but not everyone took the advice.

“#Fireworks are illegal in the City of Los Angeles and even small ones can cause a lot of damage,” he wrote on Monday. “This watermelon was completely destroyed by a firework the size of a stick of gum.”

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