Our July 4th Irony

Complicated question.

If 'art' means painting and calligraphy, there is no focused festival (seems odd to me too).

If art means fireworks, there are three major annual events. Most roadside shops pop up for Spring Festival. Some of items offered are way past 'consumer safety'. Biggest booms are far beyond our youthful M-80 dreams

You can bet that injuries are plentiful. But, scaring evil spirits away is important work, and Young Pioneers (especially of the masculine persuasion) are at tip of spear.

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While I still love energetic chemistry, better festival is mid-April water splashing. Everybody drenches everybody else until...

A foreigner appears. Then, opposing groups unify their hydrologic efforts. Street vendors see me comin' and say "buy my water balloons, you're gonna need them" (not actually an English conversation) but I say "no need".

I am water Gandhi, bringing People together with no concern for my upcoming powerwash.

 

So I just have to add a story here. Across from my neighborhood, we have a nutt ball who loves to light his explosives every night. Thats right, every night. First one is at dusk, the other one 2 hours later. The nutt ball is igniting the same type of pyro that is used and launched from platforrms by professionals at heights 50 to 60 feet above the ground. Nutt ball lights them from the ground, and the explosion happens just above our roof tops. The result? car alarms go off and dogs bark. It drives me crazy because I am usually relaxing with my family watch a movie and this really loud explosion makes my heart skip a beat and gives me anxiety. I hate him. I really do.

What bothers me is that anyone that lives near the nutt ball doesn't turn him in for disturbing the peace. Doesn't this law exists anymore? And what really bothers me is how the nutt balls little habit has to be expensive. To know that I live near someone who spends his extra money on explosives is unnerving. Would it be horrible if one of his explosives went off in his house and burned it to the ground? Go to the police? they say we have to catch him in the act. Well, I don't know the exact location, but, if a patrol call would simply every night drive by whatever area nutt ball lives at dusk then 2 hours later, perhaps he would stop. I know, it may sound like something that will go away, but it has been 2 years, and we are not talking about an M80, we are talking about an explosive that rattles your windows!!.............twice a night!!

Just had to vent.

 

Here’s tonight’s display at Minute Maid Park:



Seat location:



Great 4th of July holiday weekend activity.

 

It should, but it takes citizen reporting to be of any use. But explosives also fall under additional laws.

Wasting his own money really isn't your or my concern, it eventually produces its own reward/punishment. Nor am I much concerned about him burning down his own house. But collateral damages to others, such as the fire spreading beyond his property, is an issue. Especially during fire season.

Video recording should help.

If local police are useless, consider escalating to ATF (a.k.a. BATFE - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives). The explosives may well fall under 'destructive devices' under the National Firearms Act of 1934, which is squarely within ATF's jurisdiction.

 

Oh so tempting................

 

"Wasting his own money really isn't your or my concern, it eventually produces its own reward/punishment. Nor am I much concerned about him burning down his own house. But collateral damages to others, such as the fire spreading beyond his property, is an issue. Especially during fire season."

I brought up the money issue for a pyschological perspective. Often, we spend our money and time on things of interest to us. People who spend lots of money on explosives will have a different point of view of society than the norm. Same goes for people who spend lots of money on things that allow them to start fires, etc. My point is, this person may not be a normal person. Normal people don't light explosives twice a night, every night for two years. And doesn't it bother anyone how he is doing this at precise intervals? There definitely is a pattern showing that something is not right with this person. Now, before everyone goes off telling me 50 zillion examples of how I am wrong and how this guy is normal, ...........this guy is just not normal. He's scary.

 

US legality of M-80s and larger appears to be restricted to folks with legitimate uses. Noise to scare away (4-legged) 'varmints'. A BATF permit might be required.

As a fireworks-aged lad in Orange County CA, I may have been occasionally associated with some loud explosions. In general we would go to desert areas where police would be slower to respond. I find it most surprising that big booms are still routinely happening there.

 

when he spends all his money on fireworks, and his house burns down, he'll become a burden on taxpayers

 

One update: At Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, 7 patients required amputations:

7 suffer amputations among dozens injured by fireworks in Seattle area | KOMO

 

Nutt ball has been quite since my last post................does he subscribe to Priuschat?.............LoL