I was the jerk

[dianecourt]

who asked my neighbors to take their explosives to the park.  Just eight houses down (to the park), but still.  Not in front of my house, please.  Fit me for my Clint Eastwood chair.

[lime]

Well, I'll be old with you. LOL

I really don't like the idea of the average person handling fireworks. Even less so if they have been drinking.

[1confused1]

I understand. It's not dark here yet and I'm so worried

[niemand88f]

I never know where to park my car on the 4th- people set them off in the middle of the road in front, and sometimes in the back lot. But I just decided to move it to the back because some brilliant souls are setting off small ones between my car and another - so about 3 feet from mine. They said "Don't worry, we won't blow up your car" when I went out. Sure, I'll believe you people I've never met before.

[underwaterrhymes]

Our neighbors host a block party and shoot off fireworks. We went for the first part of the night, but K turned into a pumpkin and we had to bail before the major fireworks started. They're still going off now, but K is out and they don't seem to bother him at all.

[aussiecrush]

I have two sons with ASD and neighbors who light off bottle rockets and illegal fireworks every year. We are "camping" at the far end of our house with headphones.

[dianecourt]

These folks already have a skittish dog. Why are you make it worse for all of us? I did take her out there and say "sorry if I was a jerk, light some Roman Candles" to get her used to it, but they had already packed it up. Now I feel the ML need to being over cookies for being a good neighbor.

[Doggy Mommy]

i think it's super rude that so many people shoot off fireworks at home. Many people stay home because they don't want to be around fireworks for various reasons (ptsd, their pets are scared, ASD, they just don't like them, etc) and the DIY fireworks people are making everyone else hear their fireworks. I'm completely surrounded by them right now and very thankful that our new puppy doesn't seem phased one bit by them (and also thankful that our hillbilly neighbors seem to have found another hillbilly party to go to because I don't trust them to not burn my house down).

[puppyluv]

I was that person who yelled at my neighbors a few years back. I felt bad a little bad the next day but in the moment I was genuinely concerned the embers would start a tree or my roof on fire. Looking back at it now I realize it was stupid for them to do it at all and have no regrets.

[Elsa]

I'll admit I'm a buzz kill, but it pisses me of when people set off fireworks in residential neighborhoods. 1 it's illegal. 2 there is so much that could go wrong... Fire, hit a house or vehicle, etc. 3 it's fucking rude to your neighbors who just sent some peace and quiet. Especially after 10 or 11. We have someone still seeing them off behind our house and I'm about to go bust some heads if they don't stop.

[lilibet]

I'm so over them, they've been going off for hours. Dh usually tells me to chill the hell out on the 4th and just deal with it but even he's sick of them. And there are more really big ones this year, which are illegal here. They've been shaking the house.

[agnes]

You guys are party poopers.

I LOVE FIREWORKS!

My H and I just did a walk around our neighborhood to watch all the illegal stuff shooting into the sky of surrounding areas. Fuck yeah! 'Merica.

[elleblue]

Jul 4, 2015 23:37:48 GMT -5 agnes said:

You guys are party poopers.

I LOVE FIREWORKS!

My H and I just did a walk around our neighborhood to watch all the illegal stuff shooting into the sky of surrounding areas. Fuck yeah! 'Merica.

I love fireworks too but I don't trust the capabilities of the average consumer, lol. I've seen too many land on roofs, slide under cars, etc to think that they're nbd in close quarters. Leave it to the professionals! lol 

Also it's extra dangerous given the dried out tinderbox that is currently California. 


#partypooperwhodoesntwanttoburn

[agnes]

Jul 4, 2015 23:53:25 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Jul 4, 2015 23:37:48 GMT -5 agnes said:

You guys are party poopers.

I LOVE FIREWORKS!

My H and I just did a walk around our neighborhood to watch all the illegal stuff shooting into the sky of surrounding areas. Fuck yeah! 'Merica.

I love fireworks too but I don't trust the capabilities of the average consumer, lol. I've seen too many land on roofs, slide under cars, etc to think that they're nbd in close quarters. Leave it to the professionals! lol 

Also it's extra dangerous given the dried out tinderbox that is currently California. 


#partypooperwhodoesntwanttoburn

yes yes I know and agree that they are dangerous especially in our current condition, but my inner child is squeeing with joy.

I'm really sad that our park is not doing the big fireworks display it usually does. All the surrounding areas are making up for it, though.

[elleblue]

Jul 5, 2015 0:09:59 GMT -5 kooshball said:

Jul 4, 2015 23:53:25 GMT -5 elleblue said:

I love fireworks too but I don't trust the capabilities of the average consumer, lol. I've seen too many land on roofs, slide under cars, etc to think that they're nbd in close quarters. Leave it to the professionals! lol 

Also it's extra dangerous given the dried out tinderbox that is currently California. 


#partypooperwhodoesntwanttoburn

Well, most people in this thread are complaining about the noise though.

True. I don't care about the noise, no kids yet to try to keep asleep. 

[FrozenSunshine]

[bugandbibs]

I don't understand this thread, but fireworks aren't illegal here and everyone does them. We just came inside and they are still going strong at 11:15 PST. It's like the opposite here- it's illegal to do them in the park.

I love watching them explode in the sky. We had some really good fountains this year too. Everyone was out and it was like a giant block party- so fun!

[elleblue]

Jul 5, 2015 1:25:36 GMT -5 happywife said:

We love doing fireworks at my mom's every year. We're careful, we clean up our mess, and we finish before 9:00. We're those neighbors, I guess.

No, I consider that good neighbor behavior (assuming it's legal where you live). 

[eb777888]

I never hear fireworks other than the firework shows and I'm in Texas!!! lol

All the years I've lived here, it's never been an issue.

[eb777888]

Oh, and I'm happy about it. I don't fucking want drunk dumb dildos lighting fireworks in my neighborhood.

[ninjabridemom]

I just do not appreciate fireworks enough to think they are worth the risk of the average, probably drunk person blowing their hand, car, house, or neighborhood up.

I also think in our specific area it is a waste of town money for every town nearby to do them. We see everyone elses over the ocean or parks. Just combine efforts! Redundant and dumb. Also jackasses filled our neighborhood even tho we were not close at all!!, to the fireworks so we could not park last night.

[specialk]

My neighbors set off random fireworks like four nights a week all summer. It's sporadic over the course of an hour, probably a total of five a night. It's annoying because the baby sometimes gets woken up. I wish they would just set off a bunch on the weekend once a week but have been too chicken shit to say anything.
I don't want to be that neighbor because they help me out a lot in the winter when I'm home alone by snow blowing my driveway sometimes.

[CurlyQ284]

Someone complained on the neighborhood page earlier this week and one guy said "didn't you have a childhood?" Which was liked by a buttload of people.

When I was a kid, you could see the town fireworks from our neighborhood, specifically my lawn and the next door neighbors. Everyone would sit there and then resume the BBQ. No DIY fireworks.

DHs family has always set off DIY fireworks but also hillbillies so...

[ECB]

Since having DS, this is the first year we finally just embraced it. He's 6, we were about to put him to bed, then our friends said they were doing sparklers outside and tiny little fireworks (all from a $20 set - I think the biggest shot stuff up to my hip level). We said "screw it" and went over. D has a blast and we didn't worry about all the noise going on around us.

We were able to see, from our one spot, at least 3 different sets of fireworks going off around us. And I mean by private residents in/near our neighborhood. That does make me nervous because, as said, a bunch of drunk people setting off stuff they don't fully understand/know how to operate... joy.

But it was nice to at least not be worried about the noise waking DS up this time around.

[circa1978]

Lol. Our first night in our house (picture a very uppity/proper suburban development)six years ago was around the 4th. We were unpacking something when the teenager across the street and some of his stupid friends decided it would be funny to shoot bottle rockets at the thing I just promised to pay for for 30 years.

I flew out the front door and "asked" him what the FUCK he thought he was doing. He was sincerely terrified.

[flamingeaux]

We don't usually buy, but lots of the people around us do. They've been going off randomly at night for about a week. I expect another few days of it, while people clear out the rest of their purchases. Fortunately, DS was completely unconcerned with all of them.

Also it is legal around here.

[emsumm]

I grew up doing fireworks in the country. I hate it near my home. It's illegal and it's dangerous. Our neighbors were shooting them off at 10:30 last night. We have a ton of small kids, dogs, and closely spaced homes here. Idiots.

[moreace01]

Fireworks are illegal in Chicago - but that doesn't really stop anyone. I've never lived anywhere that was so fireworks-happy in my life. Walking home from the train last night - my neighborhood was a cloud of smoke. 

Taken out my bedroom window - which is on the third floor (I think the festivities stopped around 2am) - this is in the middle of the city and people are lighting these off in an alley: 

[RoxMonster]

It is illegal here, yet people do it in the neighborhoods anyway. Our houses are SO close together in my neighborhood that it really does make me nervous. I can see something going wrong very easily.

There were still some going on after 1 AM as we laid in bed. I just don't think that's necessary. If that makes me a party pooper, so be it.

[sonrisa]

I don't understand the appeal of risking lifetime disfigurement for a piddly display instead of going to see real ones put on by professionals. If it's big enough to be interesting then it's big enough to put other people at risk.