Do the people who keep setting off fireworks buy too many around the 4th of July, or do they buy extra so they can keep shooting them, or do they get arrested for shooting them on the 4th, and finish shooting their supplies after they’ve been to court, or what?
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search me. it’s like they can’t just spend summer doing quiet activities or some nonsense.
i guess nobody fishes or just, ya know, enjoy nature “as is” any more. [grumbles & adjusts ear plugs]
Around here we can have well over a year of red-flag burn ban in one stretch and this means it gets so bad that they almost ban thick glasses and farts. (a small cloud starts leaking and we’re worried about how many fires the cloud to ground lightning is going to start). In which case they get very nasty about fireworks of any sort…. I would think they’d know their chronic offenders and be able to sort all that out about one hour into the 5th…
I think people just like fireworks so much that they buy the discounted ones to light them or wait until after the 4th to buy theirs since it’s cheaper, but it sucks for anyone with .PTSD, and animals.
Here in Utah the 24th is a state holiday marking the entrance of Mormon pioneers (refugees) into the Salt Lake Valley. So fireworks are legal for a few days, again. And because the city parks are designated as legal spots to shoot them off (huge parking lots and the surrounding greenery is well-watered), those with the big bucks go and show off what they’ve found.
Our SoCal city is one of a few left in the area to allow “Safe and Sane” fireworks; the kind that don’t explode and/or shoot into the sky. So everybody brings their always-illegal-without-a-license-and-permit rockets to our area to fire them off from their front yards. On the 4th our neighborhood sounds like Shock and Awe Over Baghdad from before sundown to midnight. That’s after several days of random explosions, with more random explosions throughout July. Our cats hate it. The police do nothing. Does the fact that many of the rockets explode into red,white and GREEN (instead of red, white and BLUE) mean anything? You tell me.