Fireworks and neighbors - they just don't get it.

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
how much did the insurance cost?

2 bucks.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Yossarian
gotta love it when cops let their friends break the law.

Oh, do tell how I broke the law.

Uhm, well... are bottle rockets illegal, or not?

well they aren't sold in this state.

But I mean I bought them at the store 15 minutes away. So it must be legal. That and I also hold a permit to ignite them. The laws are about the sale of, not using them.

😉

If you have a permit, then this site says you're in the clear.

 

[McCarthy]

I think you have it backwards, Randal. Old Joe would have the neighbor investigated for NOT firing off fireworks and check to see if that dog came from Russia.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: McCarthy
You celebrate your country by blowing up chinese goods to the annoyance of your neighbor. Which country are you celebrating? If you were shooting fireworks your neighbor made at China it might make some sense.

What you're doing may be legal. Coming to tell us what a jerk your neighbor is for not wanting her dog terrorized makes me wonder how loud those mortars are. Could be you cracked all your mirrors with the explosions and can't see who's being the jerk here.

Never fails to amaze me how many people think they're being patriotic by blowing stuff up. "I'm celebrating my freedom, my freedom to ruin your next four evenings! Is this a great country or what?"

If the whole neighborhood's into it like you say it wouldn't be a problem to move down the block, would it? No need to be looking for easy solutions when you're celebrating your rights though. After all people found and died for your right to sit in your driveway and shoot off fireworks into the night, you're just honoring their memory.

Well that is a good point and I investigated that possiblity.

But in the interest of safety (fire, access to water, need to have concrete/firm launching area, harm to other peoples property) my chosen and legal location was most appropriate.

And yes, this is our right. This is our day where we remember where we came from. what does it matter if the chinese are the masters of fireworks. I mean its not like they invented gun powder or anything.

 

[AmericasTeam]

OT - Many countries try to claim to be the inventors of gunpowder. China is one of them

 

[McCarthy]

Is this the first year the woman has lived across the corner? If not, is this an ongoing thing each year, or next year will you go over and advise her she might want to take her dog for a drive?

It's good that you investigated moving. Now I'm really wondering what you're shooting off if you were worried about damaging other's property with them. It is OT so "pics"

Yes it's your right - your right to choose whether to do it or not. Doesn't mean you have to, that's your choice and your choice is what's in question.

What really bugs me are cheap plastic flags made overseas that people stick all over creation to show how patriotic they are. Blowing up stuff made elsewhere might carry better symbolism now that I think about it. Still don't know what she's supposed to "get" about you shooting off fireworks though. You're making noise and watching pretty sparkly things for your entertainment.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: AmericasTeam
OT - Many countries try to claim to be the inventors of gunpowder. China is one of them

Really? That's pretty cool then.

I don't know the full story but IIRC the mixture of the 3 ingredients were a turning point in power.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: McCarthy
Is this the first year the woman has lived across the corner? If not, is this an ongoing thing each year, or next year will you go over and advise her she might want to take her dog for a drive?

It's good that you investigated moving. Now I'm really wondering what you're shooting off if you were worried about damaging other's property with them. It is OT so "pics"

Yes it's your right - your right to choose whether to do it or not. Doesn't mean you have to, that's your choice and your choice is what's in question.

What really bugs me are cheap plastic flags made overseas that people stick all over creation to show how patriotic they are. Blowing up stuff made elsewhere might carry better symbolism now that I think about it. Still don't know what she's supposed to "get" about you shooting off fireworks though. You're making noise and watching pretty sparkly things for your entertainment.

He's using consumer fireworks like these. There's four catagories there you can look at. I hope you are not getting confused with grand display fireworks, that are operated by professional pyrotechnics (pyrotechnicians?), not just anybody with a license. What we are talking about here are consumer fireworks, nothing that's going to make you go deaf or shatter glass. Most reports produced by these consumer fireworks are no louder than a .22 shotgun, and that's only the larger aerial shells. It's likely that her dog wasn't freaking out because it was so loud, but because it knew something was going on outside, but it didn't know what. Dogs like to know what's going on.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: McCarthy
Is this the first year the woman has lived across the corner? If not, is this an ongoing thing each year, or next year will you go over and advise her she might want to take her dog for a drive?

It's good that you investigated moving. Now I'm really wondering what you're shooting off if you were worried about damaging other's property with them. It is OT so "pics"

Yes it's your right - your right to choose whether to do it or not. Doesn't mean you have to, that's your choice and your choice is what's in question.

What really bugs me are cheap plastic flags made overseas that people stick all over creation to show how patriotic they are. Blowing up stuff made elsewhere might carry better symbolism now that I think about it. Still don't know what she's supposed to "get" about you shooting off fireworks though. You're making noise and watching pretty sparkly things for your entertainment.

I agree.

But for me being able to blow stuff up and celebrate my country has just a little more meaning.

I don't want to get too deep, but my country allows me to hold potentially dangerous explosives. It trusts me with the responsibility to use them properly and make my own decisions.

I guess that is what I'm really celebrating.

I respect my neighboor's concern (actually I would respect it much, much more if I was actually harming/endangering her property in any way, shape or form) but when she is the only dissenting view on an event that I've done for years her weight is low on my totem pole. The joy and celebration that my neighbors enjoy worth more than her whining.

Her main complaint was "my dog goes crazy and tears stuff up"

My main replay is "well you need to learn that taking care of a pet isn't easy"