4th of July in YOUR neighborhood - celebrate much? (living, legal)

[dav51lin]

Originally Posted by mayfair

Same here. Many of them are just giant explosions that shake the ground, scare the animals and maybe have a single, low flash of light but no beautiful sky show show or anything. They seem to have no redeeming value unless you want a giant boom.

those that set them of have no redemming values

[Taz22]

Originally Posted by mayfair

Same here. Many of them are just giant explosions that shake the ground, scare the animals and maybe have a single, low flash of light but no beautiful sky show show or anything. They seem to have no redeeming value unless you want a giant boom.

I’d love to understand why they’re popular in my neck of the woods and yours too. Does anyone know why these loud fireworks with no redeeming value are set off? Anyone?

[Diana Holbrook]

No, I don't get the appeal either.

[jertheber]

Originally Posted by Taz22

I’d love to understand why they’re popular in my neck of the woods and yours too. Does anyone know why these loud fireworks with no redeeming value are set off? Anyone?

To be honest, it seems as though the near dynamite level of fireworks appeals to that same crowd who drives the jacked up pickup--following too close, or the loud lowered jelly bean cars that backfire every few seconds to let us know how they love to stand out. It's those guys who always posture themselves as the tough bad guy who rises to all challenges to his imagined macho bad self. Whether in a store, bar, restaurant, etc, they find themselves itching for attention--Or trouble. We used to call them jerks, A holes, SOB's and worse, but now they see themselves as the guardians of-- Muh Freedoms..

[Taz22]

Originally Posted by jertheber

To be honest, it seems as though the near dynamite level of fireworks appeals to that same crowd who drives the jacked up pickup--following too close, or the loud lowered jelly bean cars that backfire every few seconds to let us know how they love to stand out. It's those guys who always posture themselves as the tough bad guy who rises to all challenges to his imagined macho bad self. Whether in a store, bar, restaurant, etc, they find themselves itching for attention--Or trouble. We used to call them jerks, A holes, SOB's and worse, but now they see themselves as the guardians of-- Muh Freedoms..

You just described half the neighborhood. If a guardian of freedom means paying good money for a firework that doesn’t do anything but boom…well it says a lot about the types who buy this stuff. I definitely agree with the A hole part, because every major holiday, these mega booms go off and scare the animals. I’m sure they’re pretty lit themselves when they set them off. It’s amazing more of them don’t end up in the ER.

[rantiquity]

Fireworks are still okay in my town but controlled to a certain extent. The city put on a big fireworks show on the edge of town in a city park.

[Diana Holbrook]

So.... our working theory is that loud fireworks are bought by.... people who like big loud things.

Not a big surprise.

[mayfair]

Whoever is doing it has lots of money to burn (and explode).

[Diana Holbrook]

Now that enough days and the whole weekend has passed pretty quietly, overall I'm pretty happy with my neighbors this year, the best of whom DO have big trucks and love their freedom. (Not that there's anything wrong with that. ) We heard a few of those big things come from across the creek, the neighbor two parcels over (no big truck, recent CA transplant actually!) lit off the most in our "neighborhood", and they were all over within about 20 minutes. I heard plenty of distant rumble of other fireworks, but it all ended by about 11, which is the legal cutoff. Much less than in some prior years.

At least it was cool enough outside that we could close the barn up, close the windows and turn up the white noise and the dogs slept through most of it.... and risk of fire was minimal this year.

So can't really complain about that, even though I still might... a little

[mayfair]

Originally Posted by Diana Holbrook

Now that enough days and the whole weekend has passed pretty quietly, overall I'm pretty happy with my neighbors this year, the best of whom DO have big trucks and love their freedom. (Not that there's anything wrong with that. ) We heard a few of those big things come from across the creek, the neighbor two parcels over (no big truck, recent CA transplant actually!) lit off the most in our "neighborhood", and they were all over within about 20 minutes. I heard plenty of distant rumble of other fireworks, but it all ended by about 11, which is the legal cutoff. Much less than in some prior years.

You're lucky. We had a war zone that went until all hours of the night and went on days before and after the fourth. No one respects the rules, because...freedom means freedom to not follow laws they don't like.