Sorry, but I have to rant about continuing the fireworks after the 4th

[ProudLib72]

It's 9:20pm and the people in back of us have started up with some LOUD roman candles. I see them flash through closed blinds.

I know this will continue for the next month or until they set fire to their house, whichever comes first.

Here's an idea. Save the fireworks for the middle of winter. When we get a big snowfall, you won't have to rake the snow off your roof. Just throw a couple of m-80s up there and let the black powder do the work for you.

Or how about just enjoying your fireworks in the privacy of your own home. You could have a lot of fun with a spouse of significant other placing fireworks under the bed in the early morning hours. Wouldn't that be a hoot?!

One thing is for sure. My dogs didn't like the fireworks four days ago when it was appropriate to set them off. They sure as hell don't appreciate them now. So if you find a large, smooshy, smelly "thank you" present right in the middle of that scorch mark on your lawn, don't be surprised.

[LeftInTX]

1. Your neighbors must have money

Fireworks ain't cheap

[RainCaster]

2. It's the patriotic thing to do...

Buy Chinese fireworks on an Indian reservation. Hell yeah!

[ProudLib72]

7. They are illegal here in Lakewood, CO

So everyone from the Denver area takes an annual pilgrimage up to Cheyenne, WY to buy fireworks. This presents a problem because, since they just drove all that way, they feel like they need to load up.

In college a friend of a friend went up to WY to buy fireworks to bring to our party. When he arrived, he opened up the trunk of his car and showed us what he had: four large paper grocery bags filled to the brims. It took us a couple of hours of continuous lighting to get through them (that and we had a lengthy bottle rocket war). Then it took another half hour to clean up all the debris. Five minutes after we picked up the last piece of trash, a cop car drove by. Whew!

[JonLP24]

22. My dad did that too

I used to visit my dad in Loveland for summers and even though they had firework stands in Loveland Wyoming had more variety.

[Tanuki]

9. They're probably marked down drastically after July 4th,

which is also probably why the neighbor is setting them off now instead of on the holiday!

[DefenseLawyer]

3. If this is your biggest problem, you're doing all right. n/t

[onecaliberal]

4. My doggies and kitties are afraid of them too.

[murielm99]

5. There is someone west of us

setting off fireworks right now. My dog is agitated.

It may go on around here for the next month. Damn fools.

[Warpy]

6. Local cases of arrested development near me are doing it, also

but a few streets away so I can't even think of retaliating.

[enough]

8. Same thing happening here, last night and tonight. Loud and long.

And this is after last weekend, when it went on for three nights, every night a bigger extravaganza than we've ever had in any year before.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. You are sounding crotchety PL72....If we act like those people are NOT rednecks?

[ProudLib72]

11. Yep, I was doing the same thing through college

Now I'm older and crotchety as can be.

However, in my defense, these people are the same ones who blast their car stereo all the time. I thought I was being sensitive about it, but our neighbors next door remarked on how annoying it was (and they are a lot younger).

[JonLP24]

23. At least car stereo s drive away and are gone

Don't last more than a couple seconds but I really hate when a neighbor plays their stereo loud next door, especially with base and I'm talking rock music.

For me it is really distressing for me.

[Stonepounder]

12. I agree with you completely and even go further.

Private fireworks are illegal here in No KY. But, if you want to see where we live, look at Cincinnati and see that Ohio, Ky, and Indiana come together at a point. We live at that point. Indiana is wide open for fireworks, so just jump in your car and in 15 min you are in Indiana and all these neat fireworks stores. Ohioans do it as well. And the cops ignore it completely.

So, we and our five dogs tolerate the 4th (even though way too many people have no idea why the Fourth of July is a holiday). And I have to admit that our neighbors are pretty reasonable people who don't complain about our dogs deciding that they need to go outside at 1:30 am to do their business and then bark at something in the woods behind us.

But do your 4th thing and be done with it!

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. You can't really understand how bad it is

If you don't own a dog. My dogs all are absolutely scared to death. And that is after taking drugs. It is just awful.

Fire works are illegal in KC but every little town around here sells them. So we have fireworks on every street in every neighborhood. It goes on for days. The air smells like gun powder.

Last Friday it was 3 am before it got quiet. Saturday was ok. Sunday was 3 am. Monday was about 2am. Tuesday was all day and until about 1 am. Now it is just on and off.


I absolutely dread the 4th every year.

[ProudLib72]

16. It's not just the 4th that gets my dogs

One of my dogs is a super high strung blue heeler. When he was little, our house was broken into, and he had to deal with people burglarizing our house. Now when anybody comes to the door he runs up and down barking. Guess what it's like on Halloween. It's a shame, too, because I am rather fond of Halloween.

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. I don't do Halloween. I leave my lights off.

I am too afraid of the dogs getting loose.

Can you crate the dogs? That is what I do. I have 3 border collie. I can crate them during storms and they do ok. But their reaction to fireworks is much worse.

[ProudLib72]

30. Yeah, I think we have officially given up, too

Out of the eight years that we've had our dog, I think we have done three Halloweens. We try it thinking he is going to finally be ok, but it never happens.

We got rid of our crates (because we were moving so often, and we hardly ever had them set up). The last time we did Halloween, I let my wife answer the door while I hid in the bedroom with the dogs. They didn't like that.

[YOHABLO]

14. Well you know what, I don't like noise from motorcycles but WTF can I do about it?

[C Moon]

15. Just had another go off here (Los Angeles South Bay)...it's 11-30pm

For a couple years, someone was setting them off at 5:30am on weekdays. These aren't just cherry bombs, these are the ones that shoot in the air and explode into a huge display. It feels like the whole house shakes. Try sleeping after that at 5:30am.
I really don't think they are expensive.
I saw them online for dirt cheap. Plus, a lot of them go over to Mexico to buy them. I saw one person commenting on someone's complaining about fireworks, saying they just drive over to Nevada and buy a trunk full.

It was so bad last year on the Fourth of July (with people celebrating the birth of our country—yeah, right), that we left town this year to a quiet seaside area (mostly for our dog's sanity).

Calling the police, BTW, doesn't do any good. They obviously have more urgent matters on hand.
I'm not a mean person, but you don't want to hear what I wish would happen to those people setting them off.

[FormerOstrich]

17. I know! They annoy the hell out of me. Happening here, too.

Not to mention they are illegal. PLUS, this is Phoenix. We haven't had any rain since May. Everything is like a tinder box.

I resign myself to hunkering down for the 4th and New Years Eve. My poor dogs go nuts. My poor baby Pitt Bull won't even take a treat he is so upset (he is under the bed as we speak).

[ProudLib72]

18. We are on fire alert in CO, too

We have a fire going in the high country right now. There were a bunch of fireworks displays that got cancelled because of the dry weather. I know it must be a lot worse in Phoenix, but it's still something that concerns us. People just don't put two and two together. There is a reason fireworks are banned, and it isn't just to keep people from blowing off their hands.

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. See if you can get Trazodone from your vet.

That is what I used this year and it worked. I could put my dogs in their crates and they settled down. I cover the crates up. I also use Xanax but I think the Trazodone worked better.

But there is still the problem of getting them outside to pee

[Rhiannon12866]

19. The very same thing happened in my neighborhood tonight

Between 9:30 and 10 tonight it sounded like a war zone. Fortunately, my dog didn't seem too bothered, but my cat was really scared.

[diane in sf]

20. It's 1:30 am, they're still going off. They make my cat twitch.

[ProudLib72]

31. I thought ours was over at 10:30, but I was wrong

They got off another couple of fireworks at 1:15am.

It's those late night single pops that get me. My dogs hear them and will refuse to go outside to go potty.

[Doreen]

21. I can not remember the specific date but

for the places that allow it in Washington state they are not allowed to use fireworks so many days after the 4th and are allowed to use them on New Years but that is it. When the holiday is over and people are back to work and school they would like to sleep. some people the other night were setting off fireworks at about 10:30 pm in the parking lot of their apartment complex pissing off those who were trying to sleep to go to work or school the next day. I was almost asleep when they went off causing me to jump. You are also allowed to set of fire works as soon as the stands open but as I said a few days after the fourth no more. People can be so rude.

[Orrex]

26. Years ago, I posted a rant along these same lines:

LINK

[Vinca]

27. Agreed. We've got some assholes down the road who are obsessed by fireworks.

You'd think they would have a little consideration for those of us who like to sleep every so often. To make matters worse, a new fireworks store was just built next to the local post office. I want to live on an island.

[Freddie]

28. Some idiot(s) in my development

Do fireworks in the "common" meadow behind my house all summer. Gets old. Luckily my cats just sleep through it.

[marybourg]

29. Wow! Fireworks for about

10 seconds after public display ended here in mega "active senior " community. Then we all toddled off to bed.