OT Anybody else live in what sounds like a war zone on New Year's Eve?

Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 06:00:46 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

This was much the same, here on the Isle of Wight, all evening until
well past midnight!

It is of course up to people what they choose to spend their cash on
but it did not sound like "we are all in this together" and short of
money!

My spending on fireworks was nil.
Mick.

In article , Mick IOW
writes
This was much the same, here on the Isle of Wight, all evening until well
past midnight!

It is of course up to people what they choose to spend their cash on but it
did not sound like "we are all in this together" and short of money!

My spending on fireworks was nil.

Same here, not bought fireworks since the sprogs grew out of them 30
years ago.

I did watch the over the top London fireworks on the Beeb, anyone would
think it was the millennium all over again not a normal new year.

Mike

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Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
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Per John Doe:
Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

Next year, spend New Years Eve back in the hills overlooking Waikiki,
Hawaii.

Now *that* looks like a war zone.... -)
--
Pete Cresswell

On 1/1/2016 2:00 PM, John Doe wrote:
Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.


Firework is a total wsate of time and resources! Save the money for
other green policies!

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John Doe posted this via
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Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I
was a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one
solid hour just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just
little fireworks either.

Yes... AND I FUUKEEN HATE IT!!! Fireworks that either explode or are self
propelled are illegal by state and local law here, but the law enforcement
agencies will not enforce these laws UNLESS there is some resultant damage...
and by "damage" they evade the legal definition (like "criminal and/or
tortious interference with real property") and a window has to be broken, or
a automobile finish has to exhibit a degree of damage that won't simply wash
off...

These cheap little explosive devices are ridiculous and dangerous... the
type of moron that engages in this street-level mayhem IS NOT your normal
ordinary responsible property owner; rather, they tend to be drunks and drug
addicts which twice-a-year go on these binges with illegal fireworks (they
can't pay their bill and they don't own anything and their credit sucks - so
it's not feasible to pursue them in a civil court...) and every year
thousands of little kids get fingers blown up, little eyeballs get damaged,
hearing impaired by broken eardrums, etc... and WHO DO YOU THINK PAYS THE
PURSUANT MEDICAL BILLS??? They and their parents sure as Hell don't have any
medical insurance...

It's an unregulated industry as far as the manufacturing goes... They are
illegal in most states. There's even a federal law with stiff penalties for
transporting these instrumentalities over state lines...

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/39/836

Compare these relatively chinchy - yet expensive - explosive devices to the
normally large pyrotechnic shows put-on by most municipalities all across the
USA... They're professional, huge in scope, adequate medical and other
services are readily available, usually appropriate for the entire family, a
community social event, generate business for vendors - thus a taxable
revenue stream for the jurisdiction... etc... vis-a-vis these morons who
spend their rent-checks and child-support payments on cheap Chinese
explosives, get drunk and drugged-up and who are not "having fun" until
they're running around shooting these things at people's houses, windows,
pets and landscapes... all hours of the day and night, for weeks at a time
with relative impunity unless something happens to burn down.

Around here they start out about a week before the holidays (4th of July and
New Year's Day) and sometimes go for weeks afterwards. It starts out
sporadic, cresendos at the holiday, and then peters-out sporadically.
Sometimes they drive by my parents' neighborhood in pickup trucks shooting
the rockets at everybody's houses - and the cops say they can't do anything,
even though there are specific laws - both state and local - that say
otherwise. ??? WTF?!?

My best guess is that somewhere in our decadent moronized society "the right
to shoot fireworks" has somehow been informally inculcated into our precious
2nd Amendment rights -- because they both make loud noises and potentially
cause damages, I suppose? This tangetizes into a generally stupid law
enforcement structure which has evolved all across the USA...

I'm relieved to see it's the same crazy in other parts of the country!

I wish our "public servant" representatives would look into whether these
vendors of the these "products" - which tend to be fly-by-night tent
operations set up in parking lots - are ACTUALLY paying their sales taxes...
then COMPARE the revenue streams to the amount of welfare medical care caused
to these idiots' kids - who are being trained and prepared for yet another
generation of this nonesense activity.

Hmmmm....

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It's like Yogi Berra, RIP 9/22/2015, always used to say:
"The future ain't what it used to be!"

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On 01/01/16 06:00, John Doe wrote:
Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

Can you just **** off. You are a loser and sooner you die the better is
is for mankind.

Authorities should deal with you for incest and child cruelty.

STOP X-POSTING TO USELESS NEWSGROUPS.

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 06:00:46 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

NY Giant JAson Pierre Paul doesn't like fireworks much anymore.

FORTE AGENT 8.0

John Doe wrote:

Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

I didn't hear anything here. Went to bed at 10:50 pm. Slept through
the whole pointless affair.

Modern New Years never made much sense to me anyway, even as a child,
that the year should debut about 10 days after the start of Winter.
Better it be on the Vernal Equinox. And yes, I've read the
explanations of why it is when it is, but they seem more like
rationalizations than reasons. The one that makes the most sense, at
least for western culture, is it comes from the feast of the Roman god
Janus, the god of doorways and beginnings, which was held in January
that by the way was named after him.

Stef

On 01/01/2016 00:00, John Doe wrote:
Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

Count your blessings. Instead of fireworks it could be guns-yes, that's
right, GUNS-like they shoot into the air here.

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 06:00:46 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

I don't guess you're in Dubai where the hotel was burning down and
they didn't let such a matter interrupt the planned fireworks
festivities, are you?

Rin Stowleigh wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 06:00:46 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

I don't guess you're in Dubai where the hotel was burning down and
they didn't let such a matter interrupt the planned fireworks
festivities, are you?

I think that was a 63-story firework...

http://i.cbc.ca/1.3386022.1451586107...dubai-fire.jpg

( http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dubai-t...2016-1.3386725 )

It'll be interesting after the investigation,
to find out what they're using for cladding
on those buildings.

*******

And you might be thinking "well, our building codes are bullet-proof".
Think again. We're allowed to build six storey buildings
out of all-wood now. One of these construction sites has
already burned to the ground. There is no monopoly on
stupid when it comes to building codes. Buildings like
this are only "safe" when the cladding is on all surfaces.
During the twelve month construction time, it's a tinder-box
ready to burn. Once a site like this catches fire, all the
firefighters can do is stand back and watch. Stand way back...
The heat is so intense, it can melt the facade on other buildings.

http://www.lfpress.com/2014/09/26/bu...ighters-not-so

So if you're shopping for a condo now, better ask what
it's made out of. I definitely want the unit on the sixth floor.
It's got a great view.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1872977/ca...ilding-policy/

Paul

Paul wrote:

And you might be thinking "well, our building codes are bullet-proof".
Think again. We're allowed to build six storey buildings
out of all-wood now. One of these construction sites has
already burned to the ground.

Oh good heavens. At the rate that apt complexes burn to the ground here
(about one per week) a 6 story complex would be an awful firetrap.
Maybe they won't come here due to hurricane codes.

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 10:25:19 Mick IOW wrote:

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 06:00:46 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Lived here in this border town most of my life. Wasn't like this when I was
a kid. Nonstop fireworks in a residential area for at least one solid hour
just before and after midnight on New Year's Eve. Not just little fireworks
either.

This was much the same, here on the Isle of Wight, all evening until
well past midnight!

Ditto. I seem to remember that the New Year's fireworks started at the
turn of the millennium and it's carried on ever since.

David

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David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK