‘The Fireworks Project’
Patriot Retort: If you live in a metropolitan area, you’ve probably noticed the nightly explosions of fireworks disturbing your sleep.
At the end of May, I texted my brother and told him I was hearing loud explosions in my neighborhood. I figured they were fireworks of some kind, but since the only time I hear fireworks around here is July 4th, it was unnerving.
Little did I know these nightly fireworks were going to be the new normal. After two solid weeks of it, my dog Mary was close to losing her mind. She was never a fan of fireworks to begin with. But at least I only had to worry about her frantic panic one night a year.
It’s been over three weeks, and the nightly fireworks haven’t stopped. In fact, they’ve gotten much more prevalent.
I’m not talking the crack of firecrackers here. These are immense explosions that rattle my windows and make me jump out of my skin as I lie in bed trying to sleep.
The merest silver lining to Mary’s passing two weeks ago is she’s spared being terrorized every night. Not much of a silver lining, I admit. I miss the damn dog.
Back on June 11, the local news website reported that fireworks complaints had risen 335% over last year.
So it isn’t just my neighborhood.
In fact, it isn’t just my city.
And considering that the nightly explosions began at the same time the George Floyd “protests” took off, I’m guessing fireworks have become some obnoxious form of protest.
As it is, here in Syracuse, the city has no idea how to deal with it. Back on June 9th, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh announced that they were coming up with a plan. And apparently that plan is as detailed and involved as Operation Overlord because in the intervening weeks, this “plan” has yet to deploy.
These explosions are unbelievably loud. So loud in fact, since firing a weapon in city limits is illegal, I’m thinking I could use the nightly fireworks as cover and finally go outside at dusk and shoot that damn woodchuck that’s eating my flowers, and none of neighbors would be the wiser.
Granted, setting off illegal fireworks every night isn’t the crime of the century. Yes, it’s annoying as hell. And, yes, it’s illegal here in New York. But Syracuse has bigger problems than a bunch of idiots setting off explosions every night.
On Saturday there was a mass shooting at a party on the Near West Side that injured nine people. So on a scale of one to mass shooting, goofballs igniting fireworks is about a one.
But that isn’t stopping lunatics from floating an insane conspiracy theory that the “government” is supplying these fireworks as a way to harass black and brown citizens, and to desensitize them to the nightly sound of explosions, so when the “government” moves in and starts shooting, nobody will ever know.
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The late night fireworks boys are asleep at 11am.
Pay them back. A nice VERY LOUD semi-truck horn in
your car is a good, legal start.
… I always hated fireworks when I was running squad because it was a lot of extra work on the 4th of July and New Years. Schlepping defingered urchins to the hospital who didn’t know how powerful M80s are complete with hysterical mothers in the front seat and sometimes (temporarily) sand-blinded little brothers didn’t make for fun holidays, which made me the not-fun dad when I had my own son years later, and a killjoy anytime someone says “hey let’s get some firecrackers” to this day.
So, not a fan.
…this, however, makes me wonder if I remember correcly that bottle rockets were sometimes referred to as “niger chasers”.
…if so, maybe there once WAS some thought in that direction, just sayin’, but hardly making them injure THEMSELVES…
This fireworks plot has gone on for so long, no one even notices.
But the nightly gunfire isn’t problem whatsoever.
It’s not the feds behind this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s just walmart kicking off ‘4th of July’ way too early.
I’ve seen fireworks for sale since May.
They had sparklers for sale during Easter.
” …. so when the “government” moves in and starts shooting, nobody will ever know.”
It may not just be the police that starts shooting, and any cover is better than no cover if you take good advantage of it.
A friend of my wife’s, who lives in Brooklyn, claims the fireworks are being done to protest the protests. People who are mad about the looting and burning, etc., and so they are making noise to show their displeasure. Not sure where the theory came from, but she (not my wife) is a liberal and HATES the protests.
And to underscore the seriousness of this problem, here’s the classic “bootleg fireworks” incident, complete with Jesus counter and a guest appearance by the legendary Burning Bush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uPcJV7kOlo
(NSFW language warning)
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My latest obsession is listening to the police scanner for my area of Chicago — Streeterville, Gold Coast and Loop south to 29th. On this past weekend an alarmingly large number of the calls were for fireworks — “youths” shooting them at cars and off the top of a Parking Garage roof. The cats aren’t phased. Nothing phases cats.
My idiot, non working government handout neighbors across the street like to stay up late and shoot off fireworks. In return I enjoy 7am lawncutting, power edging, manicuring my hedges with my gas hedge trimmer and power washing everything in sight.
I used to love to set off fireworks as a kid. My karma’s coming back on me as now they are a threat to burn down my house, even in the small town which I live. That, and it scares the hell out of my cats. The piccolo petes irritate me the most.
Yeah. Here’s one of those racist, wicked persons from the government trying to kill a guy sleeping on the sidewalk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2IJ_jrTEN4
…also, that picture on the PR link that is supposed to show black shirt+yellow suspenders=firefighters is missing that 1) the gray band on the yellow suspenders in the booze pic is NOT present in the firefighter pic, and 2) having worn turnout pants before, I can tell you that the suspenders are part of the turnout gear ensemble, and NOT likely to work on regular pants…and why WOULD you? 3) if he WERE wearing TOG (NOT comfortable), I’m pretty sure they would have shown the actual PANTS.
…so, unless a firefighter is staggering around in turnout pants and boots holding his bottle and selling explosives to Black chirrun, whatever they’re trying to convey in this photo is just a bullshit smear.