Fireworks going on at all hours…what is the big deal?
Why do we put up with them in our neighborhoods?
Fireworks going on at all hours…what is the big deal?
Why do we put up with them in our neighborhoods?
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Fireworks are fun (as well as dangerous) they are a right of being american even tho many of our state dictatorships have banned them. Fireworks are they way we celebrate our indepence. We take away our fireworks and we take away the very freedoms our forefathers once fought for and our soilders are now fighting for! Fireworks are the symbolism of america take away our fireworks and you might as well kill the eagle as well! It is the same attitud of disrespect which makes people like you complain about fireworks as it is which make those people using the fireworks set them off at all ours of the night. Relax and respect our fellow humans rights to be free and hope they will repect your rights to sleep without explosions People will rise to your expectations when they know what they are. Step our and enjoy the fireworks with the kids and explain to them how beutiful they are but when you are trying to sleep they are disruptive.
Mark on July 24th, 2007 at 9:43 am | Link
I’m sorry…our founding fathers were not looking for freedom to launch fireworks at 1am.
Unfortunately, the people that believe that fireworks are good, don’t usually give a rat’s a&& what I think, or that I should be able to sleep…
People like this tend to be revengeful and not take kindly to asking them to be respectful…they bought the fireworks, they are going to shoot them off, ordinances against them or not…so if they don’t respect the laws of the land, why would they respect me?
So we will have to disagree on this point…
I would think you should be proud that you live in a country where you have the ability to ask the kids not to shoot fireworks all night long instead of a country where gunfire is what keeps you awake at night!
Well with that attitude Im sure you garner respect everywhere you go and in every aspect of your life!
Mark on July 24th, 2007 at 3:54 pm | Link
I am happy I live where gunfire is less prevalent than in others…of course you don’t mean that we don’t have violence committed by people using guns do you? I didn’t think so.
I am free to ask them, and they are free to tell me to go to hell, and torment me further if I were to call the police to have them obey the noise ordinances.
My complaint here is that people who fire off their own fireworks, not professional 4th of July displays, tend to be inconsiderate and don’t really care what people who don’t like fireworks, or obey the law regarding fireworks think.
I thank God that I live in a country where I am mostly free, and mostly safe. But I still live in a country that has many citizens who feel that whatever they want is what everyone wants…or more closely, what ever they want is what they want, and who cares what anyone else wants, they are wrong…
When I have asked people, in a calm voice to please stop doing something that is offensive, like stop firing fireworks at 1am, they decline telling me to make them…so where do you go from there…police? If you go too far then they vandalize you house…or beat up your kids, or whatever else they think is an appropriate response…because they are FREE to do what they want…
I’m sorry, I find personal fireworks to be unnecessary. My county has a very large fireworks display every 4th of July…go see it.
A nearby city has fireworks twice a week all summer long…so see them…it’s FREE…and you are FREE to go…and it is legal…
Well first I should say the fireworks displays you talk about are not free! They get the money to buy them from somewhere wheather it is tax dollars, donations, amusment park entrance fees or whatever else but they are not FREE!
You see you walk out and somehow think you have to be repspected by those setting off their fireworks! NO WRONG respect is an earned reaction. If you would take the time to get to know your nieghbors then maybe you would be heard. You walk out and spout demands wheather in a nice calm voice or not they can see your agitation they see it as an attack on them. All I can do is reiterate what I said before……….Well with that attitude Im sure you garner respect everywhere you go and in every aspect of your life!
mark on July 24th, 2007 at 5:20 pm | Link
Ok, again, Mr. EXACTWORDS…I have attended many fireworks displays in my years on this earth…I cannot recall ever paying an admission charge to view them. That is the free part I was referring to. My county has 4th of July fireworks at the fairgrounds. No admission fee. You are correct, someone had to pay for them, the county (taxes) or another organization; honestly, I don’t know who pays for them by me. What I meant was that you did not have to go out to the store and plunk down your cash to get fireworks. It might be your money buying the county fireworks…so why not go enjoy your money being blown up?
I see, I should only deserve respect if I am known, and have earned it. I find that statement odd. I respect the rights of a large number of people I have never ever met.
I respect the privacy of those conducting transactions at the pharmacy by not standing too close, I don’t ask them to earn my respect first. If I am blocking the aisle, not realizing it, and someone asks me to move, maybe agitated at my blocking position, I don’t pull out my gun and shoot them. I comply, it is easy to do, I get out of the way, and look for a way to stay clear for others. I don’t say, sorry, I don’t respect you, figure out your own way around. I guess that is what you do.
I’m sorry that I don’t know everyone in my neighborhood. I certainly could meet them, you can only create relationships with a few. And even then, just because I meet them, say hello, wave when I drive by, they will respect my rights or listen to me when I ask them to keep it down?
Maybe we live in the same neighborhood, I hope not. You must be the same person who does not care how late he keeps his music playing for the neighborhood, regardless of the city ordinances.
I guess you have proven my point, I will have to call the police to deal with loud neighbors. Maybe when they get fined for violations they will begin to respect the laws…or do the laws have to earn their respect too?
How do you handle a complaint with that one neighbor who you have not yet met? Do you know everyone within 10 houses of you in all directions? Maybe 10 is alot, how about 5? So if I am not as extroverted as you are, am I not worthy of respect?
Have fun with your fireworks, try not to break any laws. If you do, I hope you get fined the maximum penalty. Keep us updated.
I too have never paid a direct admission fee for a fireworks show specifically, I have however been asked to provide a donation which I gladly accomodate. However someone does pay for these fireworks. If it is direct tax dollars then you would have to agree you paid for it in part. I suppose you are one who would also say national health care would be free? Well it isn’t free even it is not your tax dollars which pay for it you did pay in some form or another, If it is donations from other taxes from others or whatever it will come back to you in some way wheather its a cut in other government benefits, or reduced wages due to your bosses donations and taxes whatever it may be it will have a direct cost to you and each and every other one of us when it is FREE (as you say).
It has nothing to do with being known it has only to do with earning respect! You speek of moving out of the way in a store isle or something well the person trying to get around you would most likely say something like excuse me then you would move. The excuse me is asking for and earning your respect your moving is respecting the individual but at this point would you respect this person on other levels? Probably not! Would you give the person the respect to care for your child or grandchild? not likely this person would have to do far more to gain that level of respect and trust! Well if I am blocking someones way in an isle and they ask me to move normally I do.
For instance I wanted to look as a product in home depot a few weeks ago. There was an individual blocking the product this individual would not move, I kindly waited for him, at which point he asked me to move in a rather rude manner even tho I did not want to comply I did. This type of behavoir is the behavoir which earns respect.
I think you just don’t get it what I am talking about? I think you do not like fireworks period feel they are evil and should not exist. This means you are at war with fireworks not the users. Im sure if you changed your opinion of fireworks enjoyed them and partook in their glory with the rest of the neiborhood you would position yourself much better to ask them to take them down the street latter in the evening. The way you talk about the fireworks it would seem these people are setting off fireworks at 1 am all year round not just a few days before the 4th of july?
You see you show your judgemental, unacepting, disrepectful attitude by saying you hope we do not live in the same neighborhood. Im sure if you lived in my neighborhood you would see what repect is really all about. I live in a very nice quiet pleasant neiborhood. Did the kids set off fireworks around the 4th of july? Yes they did! Did I compain? No I did not! Did the fireworks at times irritate me? Yes they did. Did I step out while fireworks were being set off and enjoy them? Yes I did.
How do I handle the complaint with the neighbor I have not Meet? Well first of all I have no complaints about my neighbors at this time. But I would start by identifying a problem. I do not mean my problem of the complaint with the neighbor! I mean why is this nighbor doing this thing that irritates me. Then I would analyze wheather my irritation with this problem is reasonable. I may even go so far as to pole freinds and such as to their take on it.
when I decide the complaint is resonable I would go to work to find a solution not to my complaint but to the problem. Why is the neighbor doing what he is doing and how might I make it such that he no longer needs to do the offensive activity. (of course certain things agregous may require legal interception, say for instance a neighbor was walking to his mailbox without cloths on, I would not attempt to solve this I would involve law enforcement as this is much more of a problem and possibly a dangerous individual). So say the neighbor is using a .22 cal nail driver (very loud uses explosions to drive nails into concrete) at night and evening while refinishing his basement. I may ask him If I could help him do the work. Develop the relationship with him help him get the work done more quickly and give him a reason not to do it late at night.
All I am saying is that respect is an earned reaction. Some may disagree and say you have to respect individuals well say a certain amount of respect is earned for being a human. But if you want respect you have to give respect and give others reasons to respect you.
Mark on August 28th, 2007 at 12:28 pm | Link