Seriously! It's not even the 4th yet, why do my neighbors insist on doing fireworks??

Yep they were doing them here before and after Canada Day.

Our neighbors started doing fireworks for a few hours each day and night starting on JUNE 1st. Thunder is terrified of them so he has not been a happy dog for the past month.

Well Wisconsin just made a big point of informing all residents that unless you have a permit-they are illegal with up to a $1000 fine. So if a certain neighbor would be shooting them off tonite I will call the sheriffs dept on them.

My hubby won't let me get fireworks. He will let me fire my spud cannon though. It is very quiet and doesn't set anything on fire. I always sit on the front porch with phone ready when the neighbors start in with the bottle rockets. Anything more than sparklers is illegal here and the very minute a bottle rocket lands on my property, the police hear about it.

Originally Posted by StarryEyedTiGeR

If people want to see fireworks, i don't see why they can't go down to the city park tonight and watch them there (every year our city does a big organized fireworks show on the 3rd.)

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I´m so sorry Nikk,... same feelings as well you I have, of course Mexico don´t celebrate the 4 of July but when is 16 of September happen the same,... many neighborns are unconcious of the respect of their neighbornhood... ...

Actually the worst thing about fireworks here is that our neighbor's dog Vadar (our rent a dog) is terrified of them and begs to come inside our house when it gets noisy (the neighbor doesn't let her inside their home). She came inside this week and brought fleas with her. Now I have to advantage the entire household. Up to this point this summer, we didn't have fleas in house.

They are always setting off fireworks a few days or more in advance down where we live in SC. And then they will set them off a few days after the holidays. A lot of people make good money with their little fireworks stands. We like to go to the beach and watch the fireworks; this year I think since we are at my parents', we'll go to downtown Kannapolis to the park (where we went the first year we were together ) We watched his brother set off fireworks in 2006, and set off a few ourselves, but it's more fun to watch them elsewhere.

The neighbors at my parents' house are setting off the fireworks, scaring the 3 cats to no end, and have been doing it all day so far! It's not even dark!

Neighbors have been setting them off for a couple of days now.

Scares both cats. Mistoflees just comes inside and hides the whole time.

I like fireworks. However, my neighbors have no business setting them off right now. We're in the middle of a drought. We haven't had a decent rain in weeks. The houses here back up to woods. Thankfully there have been NO problems- yet. But all it would take is one little spark to start something.

And you'd think with the problems we've had with the 2 fires here (1 in Dismal Swamp, the other near Outer Banks) and the month-long problems we've had with smoke from them here- that some of my neighbors would get a clue and think "Gee- maybe this isn't such a smart idea".

So far no one has set them off here yet, but I expect tonight they will. Usually, I think it's one neighbor instigating it (a not too mature neighbor) and a bunch of the other ones with kids will come out to watch. I'm not a stick in the mud, and the noise doesn't bother me (or the cats), but I do worry that they'll land on my house or otherwise set something on fire. And normally it's on a week night when I have to get up at 5:30 AM to go to work the next day, and I'm fussing and fuming going from window to window, aren't they done shooting that stuff yet!!?? It's not like there aren't numerous "official" places to see fireworks in this area.

Lat night I took a slow drive around the neighborhhood, took note of which houses were setting off fireworks (4 on the street behind me), called the police, and had them shut down. I hope they think twice before they buy them again next year, because I will do the same thing. Next year I might just venture to the houses behind the houses across the street. Maybe I will do that tonight if I am home. I am planning to go to the city and see legitimate fireworks and not the ones that explode in my back yard. My poor kitties didn't come out of hiding for hours.

Last night we had at least 3 different house setting them off near us. It was like our own personal fireworks show, but I wasn't thrilled about it. It started at about 9, and all I wanted to do was go to bed because I was sick all day. They lasted until at least 10:30, but that's when I went to bed and didn't hear them anymore. One of them was right down the street from us; I could still see all the smoke from them. And the one of the other ones was behind the woods. They were both shooting them up so high that we had perfect view. It was just like the ones they use in the town fireworks that are legal. I know that some fireworks are legal here in NH, but not the ones that shoot up in sky. It was really dangerous, because one didn't go up as high, and there's a house across the street from where they were shooting them off from. Hopefully there won't be any tonight, but I'm sure there will be.

Last night there was a major fire in Ohio, as a result of fireworks. People really need to report it, if they want it to stop. I am not going to sit around and watch my house go up in flames because some hormone ridden young male gets his jollies off shooting off a firework.

I can't believe they are doing it in an illegal area! Iowa is one of the illegal states and I've almost never had problems with people lighting fireworks, in fact, we've had the cops show up twice while we were doing them They were just bottle rockets though, so we didn't get in trouble other than "you kids can't be doing that".

If I were you, I would have called the police station and reported them.

There's a lake about 2 miles south of us where the residents are known to blow up an outrageous amount of fireworks. One person has a license and does professional grade fireworks. We heard he spends about $20,000 each year on fireworks for the 4th. There are about 200 homes around that lake and at least half of them blow things up each year. The police tried to break it up one year. Yeah right.

We went to that lake last night (a friend lives there) to watch and it was very subdued with only about 10% of the residents blowing things up and even that was limited. Our speculation is that people aren't spending what they normally do because of the increased price of gas, food, utilities, job loss, etc. It was actually very sad because our friend absolutely loves living on that lake because of the chaos on the 4th. He is dieing from cancer (we weren't sure that he would make the 4th), so this is his last year to see them.

Well, last night one of Colin's coworkers did wind up paying a visit to some of the people who were shooting off fireworks last night (DH was off duty).

We went to my sister's hosue (really our house- they're buying it from us) - it's about 3 streets over from where we live now. We have a bbq and hung out last night- well one of their neighbors- literally who was across the street from them, started shooting them off and one did hit their house (which is still technically ours- so yea, it really ticked me off!) - thankfully, it didn't cause a fire or anything- it was just a piece of it but we were upset that they did them when it was illegal number one and number two so close to other homes We didn't even have to call for anyone though- one of DH's coworkers was already near the area and saw them doing them so they got a nice fine for it. I'm glad too- they so deserved it! Luckily the house was ok though- but i hope they think about what could have happened. When Colin and I got back to our home last night most of the people had stopped shooting them off in our neighborhood, so i was glad (i guess they used the rest of theirs up shooting them off earlier in the week ).

I don't have a problem with fireworks if they're done in an area where its legal, but in our city they're not legal (and the homes are pretty close together - so there is a potential for fires as well). I think if people want to see them in our area- they should go to the designated areas for them and watch the city run show each year- it's done by professionals, so it's nice to look at, and legal.

Ohio (or is it Cincinnati- can't remember which) has a "Nanny State" mentality when it comes to fireworks, limiting what is legal to snakes, sparklers and other lame fireworks. I remember growing up going from sparklers at a young age to having "wars" with bottle rockets and roman candles on the 4th. Prior to the fourth we'd just hit each other in the legs and on the back with those bang-snap things (they are white, I can't remember what they are called). Man, that was all good fun.

After getting out of the Army, fireworks didn't appeal to me like they did as a kid. I guess it's because I got to use the "big stuff" like cratering charges, C4, det-cord and TNT. A brick of firecrackers isn't as fun to set off when compared to dropping an unused/unsafe bridge on the edge of post with a whole lot of C4.