Some idiot is shooting off big firecrackers...

[Archae]

I half expect to see cops come by any minute now.

(Sheboygan, Wisconsin)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Burbs around Chicago have cancelled festivities but some idiots just can't be inconvenienced.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Cops Will Be There In 50 Minutes nt

[lapfog_1]

3. and stand around and wait another hour

in case they need the key to unlock the door which is already unlocked.

[PortTack]

4. I've grown to really despise the 4th! Hundreds of animals, dogs and cats run away on this day

Out of fear. Some never find their way home.

[blueinredohio]

5. My dog is scared to death of fireworks.

We were outside yesterday when they went off. She goes to the door and sits until you let her in. Shakes like a leaf.ww sswssq4rrree

[Leith]

6. They are doing it here, too

in southern Nevada - where we have hot, dry, and windy conditions. We're already under a red flag warning until 9pm.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

15. Hotter and drier than hell for a good part of the last month

They don't care. Already have had a few large fires over the last few weeks. And of course they couldn't care less that each and every one they set off runs the risk of igniting another.

But, hey... Tomorrow you're homeless, tonight it's a blast!!!

[Novara]

7. my neighborhood sounds like a fucking war zone

I hope they blow their dicks off.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

14. You and me both

Not only would hopefully teach them a painful lesson, but then will spare us down the road because they'll be unable to reproduce.

[npk]

8. They're popping some big ones off near me

But they are legal where I live.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Been doing that here all week...nt

[Polybius]

10. My town keeps getting louder and louder

I'm loving it, and that smell...

[NameAlreadyTaken]

11. President John Adams would approve.

[irisblue]

12. Here as well. Assholes

[IngridsLittleAngel]

13. Easily the worst year ever here on that front...

Started just before dark... Got progressive worse starting around 10:30 and got louder for a few hours after that, going from sporadic to pretty much nonstop. More than a few window-rattlers in all of that. And I could hear some of the people nearly a block away yelling and howling and carrying on like maniacs.

Because, as always, everyone sure has plenty of money for booze, drugs and fireworks come the 4th. And so it falls on a Monday, meaning people have to work the next day? Fuck them and fuck their sleep.

Many of them don't even bothered with the flashy pretty colors. After all, it's all about those sweet, sweet BOOMS. M80's, M100's, hell, just firing your guns into the air... So long as everyone can hear you. 12 am? 2 pm on the 5th? Can't have quiet - you might hear yourself think!

This day has grown to become an unpleasant experience, I'm sorry to say.

[mnmoderatedem]

16. look at what some idiots did in downtown Minneapolis last night

Link to tweet

[gratuitous]

17. What recession? What inflation?

The fireworks started in my felony flats neighborhood before sundown and kept going for HOURS until 1-2 a.m. It as constant, coming from different quarters at different times, but there was no lull or let-up. I can't say I've ever bought fireworks, but to my inexperienced eye, they're awfully expensive. The ordnance I was hearing had to cost thousands of dollars to keep it up as long as they did, and mine is not an affluent neighborhood.

It'll keep going this week, and maybe be over after this weekend, but damn! Who has money to literally set on fire?