It is July 7th.

[J. Hova]

For the love of everything good and holy, put the god blessed fireworks away.  As I type this, my neighbors are shooting off enough fireworks to blow up a small office building.

In the interest of full disclosure, every year my friends and I get together and shoot off fireworks and have a BBQ, but we tend to do that on the actual 4th of July, not the three days leading up to it or the three days afterwards. 

[Perd]

I swear they used to not sell this caliber of stuff. It sounds like mortar fire out there. But tonight's been quiet. So I guess the supply has ran out.

[Talent Name]

My neighbor hood has fireworks going all year round to the point we play gun shot or firework

[Rave]

Usually have at least one neighbor who decides to shoot off fireworks before the 4th. This year, nothing. Of course, it's been hot as f*** out and I live in a wooded area so maybe the usual idiots decided it wasn't a good idea to try to cause a forest fire.

[J. Hova]

Jul 7, 2024 21:51:08 GMT -5 Perd said:

I swear they used to not sell this caliber of stuff. It sounds like mortar fire out there. But tonight's been quiet. So I guess the supply has ran out.

When I was younger, we used to have to go to Wisconsin or Missouri to get the good stuff.  Something changed about ten years ago, first in my home state of Illinois, where anything short of dynamite can be sold but is still illegal to shoot off in the state.  That is about as widely enforced as illegal streaming.  Iowa can be sold either brick and mortar or online for curbside pickup like from June 1 to July 6 and the month of December.  

I have bought some shit in years past that I've been amazed they sell to the general public.

[Dr. T is an alien]

I can only hope and pray that the a-hole who has been setting off demolition grade explosives for the last two weeks has bankrupted himself buying them and will run out soon.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Yeah, I live in a small town in buttf*** nowhere Manitoba, fireworks have been going nightly for a week now.

[gerbilfacedgeek]

It's the day the New Revolution happened.

[Celexa Bliss]

My neighborhood has people who set them off beginning in May around Memorial Day. It continues to the Fourth and throughout the summer, then they do it again for New Year's. Who has that kind of money to spend on fireworks??

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

y'all don't have fireworks going off all year?

[tirtefaa]

Jul 7, 2024 22:13:29 GMT -5 J. Hova said:

When I was younger, we used to have to go to Wisconsin or Missouri to get the good stuff.  Something changed about ten years ago, first in my home state of Illinois, where anything short of dynamite can be sold but is still illegal to shoot off in the state.

Off-topic but this was like a rite of passage when I was a kid. Going with your buddies and their cool uncle across state lines to get "illegal fireworks" was one of the greatest things.

Meanwhile my family would fulfill the holiday spirit and get us sparklers. Oh joy. 🙄

[Vincent Whiney]

Jul 7, 2024 21:54:13 GMT -5 Talent Name said:

My neighbor hood has fireworks going all year round to the point we play gun shot or firework

I used to play that when I lived in a not good part of the city. When it was finally gun shots the next street over is when I finally got my mom to move.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

We have a beach about a mile down the road. Wide open and while fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts there’s always been a “wink wink nod nod” that they’d let people from the town light off fireworks on the third and fourth. But some people like to just light them off in their backyards. It’s great being jolted out of bed at 3 am with giant bangs I. The back yard

[Dead2009]

There were people shooting em earlier tonight as well. I guess they had to get rid of whatever they had left.