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Fireworks use

#2
I would rather attend an organized display, somewhere away from the wildlife. A better display usually. But then, the last couple of times I attended the local display, many many people watched it through the little screens of their phones as they filmed it...

"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange.
 
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ElectroVibe said:
does anyone like to buy fireworks and set them off in their neighborhoods?
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i haven't in years (decades), but i grew up in the '50s and '60s and spent summers (the 4th of july) in the country with cousins --- and we all liked to set them off and play with them. the fireworks were less 'politically correct' back then and they could do real damage to objects you'd find on the farm or at your grandparents/relative's house. :D we 'blew up' everything we could get away with blowing up. as stupid as we were = we were lucky and had no serious/significant mishaps.

i currently live in a suburban neighborhood where the folks try hard not to tolerate that kind of 'fun' but some neighbors shoot them off, anyway. mostly bottle rocket stuff and some firecrackers now and then on national holidays.

in the past: i've been a part of several "firework shows/spectaculars" as a music director (or presenter), and i've enjoyed seeing the bigger nighttime displays when the city/community put on the big fireworks shows. i'm now old enough not to put in too much effort to see those shows, however :laugh: . i wouldn't say i've outgrown them...more like = busy doing other things instead.
 
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The poacher next door likes to believe that they cover the sound of shooting deer at night. I know the difference, but in 2020 if they eat the <expletive> deer I really don't care that much about subsistence poaching.

I would prefer that they just shoot the deer and not disturb the peace any more than that. Perhaps I'll have to start practicing electric bass really loud every time they light the darn things off.

All fireworks (other than sparklers) are "licensed operators only" in this state, but New Hampster is happy to sell as many as they can to all the surrounding states, and it's rarely worth trying to get the police involved.
 
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T_Bone_TL said:
The poacher next door likes to believe that they cover the sound of shooting deer at night. I know the difference, but in 2020 if they eat the <expletive> deer I really don't care that much about subsistence poaching.

I would prefer that they just shoot the deer and not disturb the peace any more than that. Perhaps I'll have to start practicing electric bass really loud every time they light the darn things off.

All fireworks (other than sparklers) are "licensed operators only" in this state, but New Hampster is happy to sell as many as they can to all the surrounding states, and it's rarely worth trying to get the police involved.
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Don't the fireworks scare the deer away? If not, a bass solo will certainly do the trick. ;)
 
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fdeck said:
Don't the fireworks scare the deer away? If not, a bass solo will certainly do the trick. ;)
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Poach first, then throw a string of firecrackers to "cover" the sound of the poaching (that deer won't run away, and the others already did) as just being a firecracker (still illegal in this state, mind you.) Anyone who has heard both knows they don't sound the same...

At the present level of the problem I'm willing to ignore it, because I do indeed think they are eating the deer and need the food this year, and the overall decline of hunting (without a significant return of predators, though I have seen one of the "cryptozoological" catamounts, or Eastern Mountain Lions that "officially don't exist") means there's generally a surplus of deer.

I view subsistence poaching rather differently from poaching in general, mind you.

In order to scare the deer off ahead of the poaching I'd have to spot the neighbor out jacklighting before they shot one, and looking for that's just not a particularly good use of my time. If they do something egregiously stupid I'll call the game warden on them, but if not, let 'em eat.
 
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I don’t mind fireworks on the actual day of the holiday, I.e. July 4 and NYE. It’s the week leading up to and the week after than gets old. Also, many pets are absolutely terrified of explosions and I feel sorry for them. Some have to be sedated. I enjoy a good pro pyrotechnics show, but not in my neighborhood.
 
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Hate them. If you're gonna set them off in a residential neighborhood, do it early. On NYE, it sounded like bombs were exploding outside our bedroom window around midnight. I'd already been asleep for an hour, and it scared the s@#t out of my wife and I (and our cats). It's even worse on the 4th of July - they seem to start up on July 1 and continue for a week. I don't get it.

Legally, you can set them off until midnight in city limits without violating the noise ordinance on NYE only, but I've heard them going until 2:00-3:00 am in past years. Same with July 4. It's super fun when you have to work the next day.
 
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Born 1951, Ohio had strict no fireworks laws back then but when my dad would take us kids down to Kentucky to visit my grandparents, we would buy fire crackers and bring them back to Ohio.

I've not shot fireworks off since the late 60s. Of course, I'm an old man now.

Some of the stuff available to us as kids back in the 60s was lethal. Cherry bombs, Silver Salutes, M-80s!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't mind folks blowing off fireworks in the neighborhood on the 4th or New Years but shooting guns off in the air is totally wrong.

Once up on the roof inspecting the shingles, I found a 9 mm slug penetrated into the roof! Not cool!
 
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I had a neighbor years ago that would just shoot off tons of rockets over our house. One year i climbed on roof, found one that had landed and melted into my flat rubber roof. Same year, one landed on top of our subaru and left small mark. I confronted neighbor, throwing 15 spent rockets at his feet when door was opened. All he wanted to do was deny, and fight. I walked away cussing...hated that a hole...
 
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sleddogn said:
I had a neighbor years ago that would just shoot off tons of rockets over our house. One year i climbed on roof, found one that had landed and melted into my flat rubber roof. Same year, one landed on top of our subaru and left small mark. I confronted neighbor, throwing 15 spent rockets at his feet when door was opened. All he wanted to do was deny, and fight. I walked away cussing...hated that a hole...
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Not often I say this. But I would have gone to small claims court.
 
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I'd say MOST don't give a crap about others when its 2am and their shooting them off. I'm in a large college town, i'm surrounded by college renters, they shoot them off a week before and a week after and all f'n nite long. Zero police response yearly...Plus we have 4 dogs, and they hate them..
 
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It’s only “legal” on the 4th of July here in the Central Valley California and that’s when we celebrate. But people light em up a couple days before and after and 6 or so hours away from New Years and a couple hours after. They definitely don’t bother me or my wife or our kids.
 
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It sounds like you guys live in the city with a bunch of a-holes around you. We don't have those problems where I'm at. We don't have noise ordinances here, but everyone is mostly respectful to the neighbors, and have never had anyone in our area complain to us. Not including wives and girlfriends, but they're buzz killers. Things that go boom are just part of life here, but we all keep it to daytime hours except for a few holidays. The sportsman's club is about a mile from my house, and every weekend it sounds like a war is happening. None of our fireworks are consumer grade, we have licensed pyrotechnics on site, and anyone who isn't sober doesn't get near them.
 
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friskinator said:
Hate them. If you're gonna set them off in a residential neighborhood, do it early. On NYE, it sounded like bombs were exploding outside our bedroom window around midnight. I'd already been asleep for an hour, and it scared the s@#t out of my wife and I (and our cats). It's even worse on the 4th of July - they seem to start up on July 1 and continue for a week. I don't get it.

Legally, you can set them off until midnight in city limits without violating the noise ordinance on NYE only, but I've heard them going until 2:00-3:00 am in past years. Same with July 4. It's super fun when you have to work the next day.
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It’s even worse when you hear semi-automatic gunfire too. A big gun/guns going off somewhere in my neighborhood...:meh:
 

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