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No more fireworks
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Let 2024 be the last year there's fireworks anywhere in the world, for any reason. The dogs don't like it.
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But I also was the weirdo who preferred smoke bombs over everything else so I could probably lose the boom fairly easy.
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I like a professional pyrotechnics show set up somewhere that isn't surrounded by residential zones or a hillside covered in dry brush, but the month long race to see if you can get to deep sleep before you wake up to the sound of an explosion and a symphony of car alarms (a game I'm real bad at) is gettin' old.
Have you seen the night time drone shows? It feels like pretty much the same thing
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It sucks quite a bit for folks with PTSD but also the context note of - it doesn't just scare dogs, there's typically record numbers of dogs that get lost because of the fear
Friendly reminder to folks to make extra sure your dogs are indoors during a time where there's likely to be a fireworks display
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the lunatics at the park outside my house spend like a whole week shooting off mortars in broad daylight. it’s absolutely wild, you can’t even see anything.
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Those have gotten progressively dangerous with a teen losing a hand last year because he and a buddy were playing hot-potato with a m-something or other. I’ve also had more than one poorly set up mortar fire sideways at me and my friends at that same party so I’m good with a sparkler and maybe a little fountain for the nephew and that’s it
They could be testing response times for police
People have been doing the same out here but at night at random times even during late winter or spring
But fireworks cause enough problems for enough people that I'd be an asshole to insist they continue.
Fortunately, the Chinese Lantern Festival exists and has a tour stop nearby. It's downright magical and it gets better every year!
Our largest export is fireworks that are illegal in other nearby states because apparently we're the only state in the country that knows you're supposed to light the wick and then leave instead of holding it or pointing it at your face or swallowing it or whatever the fuck people elsewhere are doing to be killed by an M80. I mean on the one hand the danger and loss of life is enough to justify outlawing them. On the other hand I'll hear somebody from state with stricter laws go on about how dangerous a bottle rocket is and all I can think is "how?! Are you taking them as a suppository?"
I just don't like how it upsets dogs and don't understand where everybody's getting all this money to literally set on fire.
Also what the fuck does this country have to celebrate lately?
Still true.
I had noted somebody left a shopping cart next to my car though, so I wanted to go back out and move that. So I got her settled and turned on a bunch of fans and the white noise machine and got her a kong of peanut butter and she was laying on her bed beneath my wife in bed and went back outside to move the cart.
Apparently when she heard me open and close the door and go outside she bolted to the front of the apartment and was worried-barking and pawing at the door and trying to look out the window all while shaking and whining. When I came back in and got a quick greeting she bolted back to the bedroom for hiding.
The fireworks people are bad people.
You can already get 'silent' fireworks. They're not literally silent but are way less loud and boomy. They use them in zoos and things, and when the farmer next door does fireworks for Nov 5th he uses them and we don't hear anything.
I don't know about that. Fireworks feel less like a Fundamentalist media operation to suppress queerness, to me.
But I fucking hate having to listen to random bangs, whistles, and pops in my neighborhood when I'm trying to sleep.
Anyways, I love fireworks, but not enough to have actually set any off for decades. I just watch professional shows now.
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I saw someone firing off bottle rockets with his bare hand adding to this his son came over asking for a try to the words No daddy's dumb. 2 years ago while going to work I saw people having a roman candle fight while going down the road at around 40mph neck and neck with another car
With the amount of fires we have in the state I am kind of curious why they don't ban then outright
Until there'd be a particularly long burst of of fireworks, or a very loud/close one. Then she'd come into the living room and sniff both of our faces and give us each a lick before retreating back to the bedroom.
I'm not quite sure if she was checking that we were okay or looking for comfort for herself.
I am pretty sure that one of my cats was trying to comfort her at one point though.
Yeah after a particular camping incident about 20 years ago where a friend rode up to our camp on a 4-wheeler and threw an enormous box full of artillery shells and all sorts of other big fireworks into the campfire and us too drunk to initially realize what was going on until shit started exploding and shooting off in every direction and exploding some more and setting shit on fire, I'm kind of over all of it.
Throw in people and animals that might be traumatized by loud noises and I'm definitely okay with the idea of no more fireworks anywhere. Who decided the public should be allowed to purchase and play with explosives, anyways?
Because this is modern America and no good thing ever comes without at least three bad things, that they only did it last night was, against all prior predictions, the stupidest thing they could have done considering it was also the only night with heavy winds and heavy rains, and the neighbors also set it off in the middle of the dry-patch the 90+ degree week we'd just had reduced our grasses to. So it could all have went extremely bad
So yeah, add me to the list begging for "please ban this nonsense"
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I also went to a friend's house yesterday, and within the first 5 minutes he was lighting fireworks that took a 6-inch diameter disc, spun it into the air, and then fucked off into someone else's yard somewhere out of sight.
I have to clean my yard every fucking year from everyone else's burnt up money and it's such a pain in the ass.
And nobody observes the cut-off times. Cut-off times mean the M-80's and shit are gonna get detonated all over town well after midnight because hee.
are probably a-okay with tiktok being banned because of "china"
yet are burning up their cash to buy fireworks from china
Then everyone tries to light the atmosphere on fire until the sun comes up.