PC or just me (fireworks)

[lex137]

My neighbors were lighting the good fireworks till midnight on Saturday, it worke my daughter up a few times! You don't see me crying about it just have to suck it up and put her back to sleep.

[Great-Kazoo]

I've been reading quite a few... "please don't set off your own personal fireworks because of pets and vets". Are these people for real?! Is this what Colorado has come to in 2017? I haven't bought personal fireworks in 20+ years but this just sounds ridiculous. Maybe I'm just insensitive or I grew up in a redneck state.

No it's what CO has become for some time. This isn't new, now the fire danger as mentioned, is real.

[Mazin]

What's the 4th without a wick or lighter burn?????

[JohnnyEgo]

So I am not going to set off fireworks because I am generically law-abiding and not interested in burning down my neighborhood this year. But I do think society as a whole has lost something now that it is illegal for teens to shoot bottle rockets at one another. Sure, every now and then somebody lost an eye or a finger, but seeing that one-eyed, three fingered freak year in and year out reminded us of the joy there is in being alive.

Also, I gave a sparkler to my son one year when he was five. He played with it for about a minute, said "I'm done with this, Daddy" and then placed it on the hood of my car. In kindergarten, I had to swear to his principal that I had no idea where he picked up all those four letter words.

[WETWRKS]

Back in the 70s my grandfather had a black lab that not only cowered at fireworks...she would hide in a window well if I played outside with toy guns. Not even cap guns. Nothing was done to accommodate the dog. She survived it.

[GilpinGuy]

Back in NY as a kid in the 70s my buddy's dad was NYPD and came home with a garbage bag full of fireworks every year (I assume they were "confiscated"). We'd spend the whole day with a foot of 1" rope slowly smoldering, setting off all kinds of cool stuff. And our parents would laugh at us, then say "oh, uh, stop dat ya bastad kids" when we'd start shooting bottle rockets at each other. Good memories.....

[Colorado Osprey]

My neighbors were lighting the good fireworks till midnight on Saturday, it worke my daughter up a few times! You don't see me crying about it just have to suck it up and put her back to sleep.

Its not just kids who get woken up. Some of us don't get off for holidays and require us to be at work at 5am. This means we go to sleep at 8pm and wake at 3am.
Firing off exploding fireworks at midnight would be the equivalent of someone running a chainsaw in your front yard at 4am to most.

I get the 4th. Light em off!! But not on the 30th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, etc, etc, etc.

Last night I was seriously contemplating escalating a situation when mortars were being launched at 2am.

[SAnd]

I like to occasionally like to make loud noises to celebrate Independence Day or New Years. But then I think of my neighbors.


It just ain't the same though.

[StagLefty]

Its not just kids who get woken up. Some of us don't get off for holidays and require us to be at work at 5am. This means we go to sleep at 8pm and wake at 3am.
Firing off exploding fireworks at midnight would be the equivalent of someone running a chainsaw in your front yard at 4am to most.

I get the 4th. Light em off!! But not on the 30th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, etc, etc, etc.

Last night I was seriously contemplating escalating a situation when mortars were being launched at 2am.

About 1 a.m. Saturday someone in the neighborhood north of me decided that was a good time to start setting off rockets,stopped for awhile and then started again at 2:30 a.m. It wasn't the 4th yet and I work Saturday's and get up at 4 a.m. so yeah let's celebrate but wait until the 4th !!!!

[fitz19d]

While I acknowledge there are some sensitivities towards dogs and vets that should be accounted for in some way, the bigger risk in CO is wildfire. Many, many forest fires have been started by fireworks.

I'm out on the E Coast right now and one of our main climbing areas (Seneca Rocks, WV) is closed right now cause some idiots were launching fireworks off the summit.
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My personal take. I dont care about fire crackers, street roman candle types/spinners, and the small bottle rockets. They freak my dogs but tough for them. However I don't like in full blown residential areas assholes with the I am assuming commercial grade shooting big air bursters that shake the windows or my drink a tiny bit and are really loud even from the inside. It's not that the noise is annoying, but just too many retards who will end up accidentally shooting them into a neighbors house or something like that. Rural/semi rural property? Go for it. But again fire danger especially after record dry June.... My new neighbor has found a half dozen or so air munitions in his backyard. Not going to be fun when one of them lands in some non grass and sets the fucking place on fire.