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Jan 01, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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I hate this particular holiday. Redneck aholes around me love any excuse to set off fireworks and shoot guns. New Year's Eve is the worst. It was my intent to sleep my way into the New Year. Not even remotely possible. I'm surrounded by them. They started at 8pm. At midnight they all went batpoop crazy. I swear to gawd it sounds like some of them are shooting canons. Add to that some are shooting semi-auto (maybe full-auto) guns. The noise is so bad even the cats are upset.
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Jan 01, 2024 at 01:55 AM
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That’s so unfair of them. Some people have no consideration.
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Jan 01, 2024 at 05:00 AM
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I am in UK now. We had fireworks yesterday but not too crazy. On normal days you can’t have it past 11pm but on the new years past 1pm but I haven’t heard anything much past midnight.
I wish we had more regulations in the US. We live next to a church and they have a lot of events and typically they are considerate folks but when they do fireworks it goes on all hours of the night. Gun shots though is entirely different story. Why is it even a thing? |
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Jan 01, 2024 at 07:36 AM
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I have the same complaint (a lot of people do). When I had a cat it really freaked him out. And I see people post on my local town site asking people not to set off fireworks because their animals are scared (and one even left her home because her dog would have a seizure if fireworks went off).
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Jan 01, 2024 at 09:15 AM
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That's just crazy to me. I get fireworks, but firing guns??? um why? Sorry you had to put up with that.
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Jan 01, 2024 at 09:58 AM
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Thanks everyone. Am feeling kind of groggy this morning. The idiots went until 1am.
The only thing I know behind shooting guns is that it's an old country thing. Except the old way was to wait until midnight then shoot off a couple of rounds, not shoot like maniacs for hours and hours. Rationale behind the loud noises was to scare away evil spirits. Every time these idiots start shooting in the air I think of a story from a few years ago. A 12 year old boy was hit in the head by a falling bullet. He has permanent brain damage. Those bullets shot in the air have to come back down! To compound the lunacy, I know there was beer involved. Guns and booze is a bad mix. |
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Jan 01, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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A lady I worked with back in the 90's had that happen to her adult son too @lizardlady.
New Year's Celebration, New Orleans, Louisiana ... He was a war veteran too! I remember Martha commenting on how he'd survived the war intact ... Only to come home and take a falling bullet & it leaving him brain damaged! This country is nuttier than a fruit cake when it comes to the love of guns! 
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Jan 01, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Last 4th of July a local family caught grief because they put a sign in their yard asking people to refrain from fireworks because the husband has PTSD from serving in Afghanistan.
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Jan 01, 2024 at 02:09 PM
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Selfish souls deserving of some serious Karma ...
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Jan 01, 2024 at 02:50 PM
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I agree pflower. I hope karma took a nice big bite out of their backside.
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Jan 01, 2024 at 07:45 PM
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Where do they get money for all that amo not even used for REAL target practice? Hmmmm, it was real quiet in our red neck part of the country.....not even fireworks.
I remember in the city (Los Angeles) in early 70's (still lived with my parents) we were at a neighbors house for New Years Eve (tract housing) & one of the people came out & found a bullet came down through his car window. No idea where it was shot from. It was good that it didn't hit anyone. Windshields can more easily be replaced.....but that happened in an area where you wouldn't think it would. I like my quiet new years eves at home. I was too tired to go to the party I planned on going to. My dogs had started chasing a mouse in the house at 5am & I was wide awake for that. I crashed New Years Eve at 8pm so thankfully it was quiet & no mouse chasing either __________________  Leo's favorite place was in the passenger seat of my truck. We went everywhere together like this. Leo my soulmate will live in my heart FOREVER Nov 1, 2002 - Dec 16, 2018 |
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Jan 01, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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When I was a teen and young man, we did the backyard shotgun thing at 12:00 but it was pretty restrained compared to what's going on today. 15-20 minutes of firing a few shotshells at the heavens and everyone went back inside to continue celebrating. I believe everything you described LL. What was once just a bit of noise-making as the hands ticked midnight has become for some, just another excuse to display and play with their proxy testicles. A bit harsh? Nah. I'm just calling what often is...too often is. The modern g-culture is a cancer.
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Jan 02, 2024 at 09:54 AM
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"proxy testicles" I love it! May I borrow it?
The eejits started again around 5pm yesterday. Thankfully it only lasted about an hour. Eskie, you are right. A windshield can be replaced. A life cannot. |
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Jan 02, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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Wow, that really sucks, Liz. I've heard of people setting off illegal fireworks (although not guns) in other areas. Fortunately, our NYE was nice and quiet. How was Hazel? Did the noise bother her too?
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Jan 02, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Thankfully Hazel is not bothered by loud noises. Though there was one big BOOM that rattled my windows. It freaked out the cats. Hazel woke up and looked around like what was that!?
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Jan 02, 2024 at 02:14 PM
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I am glad my dogs & cats have all been good with loud noises. Cote looks to see what it is & when he knows it is safe he is ok. We have lots of loud farm equipment around here. Wish Cote & Sophie were as chill with mice. They go drama queen & king on me when they see or hear a mouse. They started at 5am on New Years Eve day & Sophie chased it out of the family room which is her house territory into the kitchen while I was making coffee & freaked out the mouse when it saw me. Then Cote took over. It was quite a circus act that morning while my cats were quiet in their upstairs domain. Ah, my crazy family
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Jan 02, 2024 at 07:34 PM
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I would like to see an end to fireworks (except in a very controlled and public situation) and gunfire.
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Jan 03, 2024 at 09:24 AM
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Eskie, at my house we get that kind of drama over lizards.
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Jan 03, 2024 at 09:31 AM
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Speckofdust, personal use of fireworks is supposed to be limited to farmers. The sellers get away with it by having the buyer sign a form saying they will be used for agricultural use. I'll admit way back in my younger day I enjoyed setting them off. It's just gotten out of hand.
I've given up hope of gun control in this country. The progun lobby is way to powerful and some gun owners way to vocal for there to ever be any reasonable control. |
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