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Fireworks really piss me off.
- Jul 1, 2009 at 9:37 PM
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Dear Asshat residents of my Asshat little town,
Once upon a time I thought they were pretty, well the colored kind that explode up in the sky at least. But this time every year they're gradually becoming the bane of my existence.
I'm tired of hearing people go on and on in this stupid town about how they have the RIGHT to set off fireworks! Well yippity-do, I suppose you do. I guess I don't have a right to have peace and quiet in my own home. I guess my 3 year old doesn't have the right to go to sleep at night without being almost in sleepy-land and then being yanked back into wakefulness by an M-80 going off. I guess my dogs don't have a right to not have to be cowering in corners in their own home, hiding from loud scary noises. I guess it's just tough cookies for me that I have a child with a disability who rarely sleeps as it is but I get to wake up with him at all hours of the night so you can watch something go boom-boom.
It's just total crap. I'm NOT trying to be a party pooper, I would be open to all kinds of compromise on this issue. But do fireworks REALLY need to be lit off here in suburbia, in your driveway? YOU can choose to set your fireworks off somewhere else, my family and I can not CHOOSE to get away from them unless we want to vacate our own home. Even if they are legal in the suburbs, do they really need to be legal for a week and a damn half before the 4th of July? I could probably withstand one night of this bull if that was all I had to put up with.
Not to mention that while I have ALWAYS found it insulting that people are comparing our current economy to the Great Depression, I find it to be even more offensive when suddenly an entire town of down trodden, financially oppressed folks come out in hordes with hundreds of dollars that they are basically planning to light on fire. Glad to see that you can't pay your freaking water bill but you can buy out the VFW's Blackcat stand there Cletus.
I could continue raving but now I have to go tend to dogs that are practically piddling themselves and catch a cup of coffee before my little boy gets woken back up by your Hilbilly Blaster 3000 Dynamite stick. You. Suck. Ass.
Sincerely,
Firework hatin', Party Poopin' biotch
Tags: seriously though my neighbors 6 and 9 year olds are in the driveway lighting off blackcats by themse, i smell a parent of the year award
Comments:
Ugh, that's just the beginning of the ridiculousness of fireworks (particularly here in AZ where dry pine needles that blanket the town and everything is a fire hazard BEFORE you add fire ball rockets to the equation). But really, what are your city's noise ordinance laws? They should apply here, and if the fireworks are breaking noise ordinence laws you have every right to call the police.
I feel EXACTLY the same way. It drives me crazy. Huge booms keeping the baby up, keeping me up!!! The 4th is bad enough here in the suburbs but WHY for weeks before and after? WHY? People are so inconsiderate it isn't even funny. I also agree with priorities. People can't pay the bill but somehow find hundreds of dollars to blow stuff up that's gone in 2 seconds. Wonderful. And even if there is an "11 pm" limit of setting them off, people around here still go until 2 or 3 in the morning. Law enforcement couldn't keep up if they tried.
I hate fireworks blown off by the locals. I am glad they are illegal in NY. LOVE the shows the professionals do though.
Yes, yes, yes! And I do feel like such a party pooper for feeling this way, but the fireworks drive me beserk. I have no problem with people setting them off on the actual holiday, and preferably before midnight, but that never seems to happen. My neighbors continue to celebrate a week afterwards. I bet if you polled most of them, they wouldn't even know exactly what the holiday for which they are pissing everyone off actually means anyway.
I agree with Jellyfish, there's got to be a noise ordinance, and you can call the police about your neighbors. You're right, just because fireworks are good on July 4th, doesn't mean that the entire week before and after the date justifies blowing up anything folks can get their hands on. I've had dogs that are so fearful of the fireworks, (my daughter has never been too bad with them), that I've thought about calling the cops myself. It's cruel to their little ears.
You know what's scary- living in an apartment where your neighbors are drinking beer and lighting off fire works in your drive way.
So yeah I agree with you! Go someone else- or at least only light them on the 4th right??
A few years back, our next door neighbors started lighting them off around the middle of June. My daughter was so scared of the booming sound that it became a nightly thing for me to have to hold her until they were finished. I couldn't take it anymore, and one night I wrapped up my daughter (I was pregnant with my son), and walked over there and demanded to know how many more nights they were going to keep my little girl up! They appoligized, said they only had two more fireworks left, and that they wouldn't buy anymore. Thankfully, they kept to their word!
Ever since I was a littel grrl I have never been able to enjoy fireworks, living in dry, brown CA- fireworks are DANGEROUS!!!
I am always frightened that the whole place will burn down. I cannot believe they let people shoot them off for such a long period of time!! And right on the $$ about the broke dumbasses spending their rent $$ on firestarters!!! DERRRRRR
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High five! Although our neighbor hood has been a little tammer this year.. but then again I am sure that fireworks is against city noise ordinance past a certain time of the night... at least it was when I called the cops about it last year. Yes I am that type of annoying neighbor. ~evil grin~