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New Years Eve Fireworks

Magicrat — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:27:13 GMT

Do people in your neighborhood set off fireworks (and guns) on New Years Eve? They do in mine and it's very annoying. First of all, private fireworks are banned in my city; and secondly, it's frightens the C#@p (literally) out of my dogs. My one poor dog was trembling so badly I couldn't calm him down and thought he was going to stroke out. And if you call the police to report it, you are told they have to be "caught in the act" for them to do anything about it even though it's

ILLEGAL to begin with.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

SouthernBee — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:38:48 GMT

@Magicrat : Totally agree and understand. My DH is retired military with PTSD and everyone in the neighbourhood knows this.

They start 2 days before and continue a week after. Neighbors in front,side and back of us. This year was like more powerful and stronger.

I had better windows installed, wooden blinds and thick remote controlled window shades: all this shut out the sights from the fireworks but sadly not the horrible sound. We increase the tv volume but still hear the fireworks.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

JoyFilled Warrior — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:49:07 GMT

@Magicrat wrote:
Do people in your neighborhood set off fireworks (and guns) on New Years Eve? They do in mine and it's very annoying. First of all, private fireworks are banned in my city; and secondly, it's frightens the C#@p (literally) out of my dogs. My one poor dog was trembling so badly I couldn't calm him down and thought he was going to stroke out. And if you call the police to report it, you are told they have to be "caught in the act" for them to do anything about it even though it's
ILLEGAL to begin with.

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Hi @Magicrat

Are you saying, they fire off *GUNS* where you are, on NYEve??

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

occasionalrain — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:52:39 GMT

No, but prior to a veteran moving here, they did. It's probably too late now that the dogs are no longer puppies.

However, puppies can be desensitized. When loud noise happens, owners should behave pleased and excited and give a treat to the dog ever time another fire work or gun goes off. Dogs look to their owners to know if it's a threat or a good thing.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

katie1859 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:52:12 GMT

Yep

These morons in the subdivision

Think it's fun to blow up the sky

half tanked for a half hour

Naperville illinois

its illegal but nothing done/enforced

But heck if I blow the stop sign on the street

and LE is on my bumper like a flee to honey

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

Magicrat — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:53:29 GMT

@JoyFilled Warrior Yep.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

deepwaterdotter — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:01:59 GMT

The residents in my neighborhood have 'aged out' of fireworks celebrations, even on July 4th. Those of us who own firearms believe in behaving legally and responsibly.

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Junebug54 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:13:51 GMT

@deepwaterdotter I heard a few begin at midnight. Fortunately for us it started raining quite hard and that was the end of that lol...

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

Kachina624 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:45:58 GMT

@Magicrat. They're usually pretty bad here but this year was unusually quiet. There were 3 or 4 pops in the evening and about 10 minutes of it at midnight. That was it.

Albuquerque has a big problem with people shooting guns up into the air but they now have gunshot detectors all over town so they have reduced the problem. I think it's a Hispanic tradition. We had a child shot and injured who was being held in her parent's arms. What goes up must come down.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

Kachina624 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:47:55 GMT

@occasionalrain wrote:
No, but prior to a veteran moving here, they did. It's probably too late now that the dogs are no longer puppies.
However, puppies can be desensitized. When loud noise happens, owners should behave pleased and excited and give a treat to the dog ever time another fire work or gun goes off. Dogs look to their owners to know if it's a threat or a good thing.

@occasionalrain. Theoretically.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

BlueFinch — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:41:33 GMT

My neighborhood is rocking for any holiday that fireworks are sold. Usually, the sky will be lit up with firework displays, but this year I didn't see any bottle rockets lighting things up. It seems all the noise was from on the ground fireworks. And, it was not as bad as usual. Not sure why. Maybe some common sense considering the drought we've been experiencing. Uh, probably not.

The police have never done anything to control this problem. A policeman lives three houses from me, with neighbors on both sides of him usually firing off fireworks. The police station is within walking distance of my home, too. They just look the other way, or perhaps participate themselves. Small towns, shaky rules.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

beckyb1012 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:49:35 GMT

Shooting off fireworks inside our city limits is illegal, but usually I always hear some on those type holidays. This year I did not hear any at all but I was asleep long before midnight. They start very early on July 4th in shooting off fireworks. I know it is illegal but it does not bother me I enjoy the celebration of the noise.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

shoptilyadropagain — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:20:25 GMT

I went to bed as soon as the clock hit midnight. I noticed them for about 10 or 15 minutes but they either quit or I fell asleep.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

JoyFilled Warrior — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:33:47 GMT

What the heck has happened to us, in society now??

Shooting off GUNS to "celebrate" New Years??

So cavalier!

I think I'd classify this as completely INSANE!

And above us in the USA.

It looks insane when Radicals, like Isis, "celebrate" by shooting guns this way, on these occasions. So USA'ers copy the very behavior of these Radicals, whose behavior we disapprove of?? .. & whose behavior that we are fighting against??

I'd expect better of us US Citizens.

I'm really disappointed.

Just cant be reconciled realistically, imho.

I'm going back to La-La-Land, with my YouTube Christmas Carols as background sound.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

Meowingkitty — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:58:52 GMT

Our neighborhood sounded like downtown Beirut. They started at 5:30 and kept going until after 2 am. Both legal and illegal ones. Cops won't do anything because they don't have the resources. They only thing you can hope for is no one loses an arm and no one burns down their house. Real smart considering we live in the desert but they won't outlaw them because someone in the state legislature has his pockets in the fireworks industry.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

Magicrat — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:07:17 GMT

@JoyFilled Warrior Ya' can't fix stupid.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

CrazyDaisy — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:40:44 GMT

@Magicrat wrote:
Do people in your neighborhood set off fireworks (and guns) on New Years Eve? They do in mine and it's very annoying. First of all, private fireworks are banned in my city; and secondly, it's frightens the C#@p (literally) out of my dogs. My one poor dog was trembling so badly I couldn't calm him down and thought he was going to stroke out. And if you call the police to report it, you are told they have to be "caught in the act" for them to do anything about it even though it's
ILLEGAL to begin with.

Strange that people get allup in arms about fireworks being illegal. Yet catching people doung illegal activities at the southern borders, you are supposed to look the other wsy.

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

skatting44 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:41:50 GMT

Yes, some of my neighbors set off fire works on every Holiday including Christmas & New Years .

Not in favor

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

mrshckynut — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:52:07 GMT

@Magicrat in our neighborhood no

however there were some very loud ones from other neighborhoods that must be at least a mile away

cats were not happy oldest one ok but the 2 kittens not so much

mrshckynut

Re: New Years Eve Fireworks

Mz iMac — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:55:34 GMT

@Magicrat wrote:
Do people in your neighborhood set off fireworks (and guns) on New Years Eve?

@Magicrat Yup!