You are scaring my dogs! They are terrified. We have been drugging them for 2 days. Yes, there will be a fireworks display tonight. A bunch of them. I have accepted this. But all you fucks setting off what sound like M80s in your back fucking yard, FUCK YOU!!!
You are self-centered, emotionally stunted maggots.
And if I killed you, I would labeled the criminal.
There is no justice.
When I locate you, I will fill your mailboxes with the diarrhea you are scaring out of them.
Fuck you!!!
I called the police non-emergency number earlier because the same shit is happening here and scaring our cats. Private citizens shooting off any aerial firework is illegal in Virginia and some of those big booms are obviously not from ground level.
It’s weird. Around here, it’s like a war zone for weeks before and after. Dead silence this year.
I love fireworks. This is the first year in forever its been safe to shoot them off. Now if only I had my old canon to really blow shit up.
Should start here in earnest in an hour or two and go on steady for 5 or six hours, just a solid blanket of noise. Found out our shithead county council has allowed everything out here, so I am not even allowed to complain. Unless, of course, they set all the trees on fire.
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of J4 setting off fireworks.
While I understand the OP’s frustration, can’t really get behind this pitting.
My dogs he scared too. They always turn out fine.
It’s way way out of hand and getting worse over the past few years. It would be one thing if they confined it all to 7/4, but no, they’ve got to fuck around with them for 3 or 4 days on either side of Independence day. That and every other time some group of yahoos get into some kind of celebratory mood. I’m always having to pick up debris around the house outside from all their shit, and last year I ended up with a gutter clog from one of those oversized bottle rockets that wedged itself into the downspout.
Here’s to hoping for some schadenfreude upon hearing of ER visits for maimed hands and fingers of these yahoos when they get stupid with a “hold my beer” moment and try to throw an M-80.
Usually results from throwing the beer and holding the M-80.
“Hold my M-80 and watch this …”
I will probably be very sorry by posting this, but its been very quiet here as well. Last year it sounded like a war.
What happens with your dogs during a lightning storm? Do you send a fuck you to Zeus?
Really your dogs are just doing what they should be, hunkering down for the storm.
Zeus is a fantasy; people who shoot off fireworks in residential areas are real.
Fuck the firework idiots. They frighten animals, they trigger PTSD in people, and, here in the West, their arrogance will start fires, all in the name of some “harmless” fun. Go to a municipal show if you want the fancy lights. Rat bastards, all of them.
Two of our dogs are trembling, and I feel like I’m in Nam. Hope the fuckers lose a finger or three and put an eye out.
They have been every night, 9-11pm, for the past week. Last night they went until past midnight. Today they began at 2pm. On a bright, humid, hot, under drought afternoon.
Airborne fireworks are illegal here, so I presume traffic to Wisconsin has been hopping.
Idiots.
Official sundown was 905, so it’s not even dark, yet it’s been continuous for the past hour.
I totally support this pitting! 
I live in an inner city neighborhood where presumably, fireworks are illegal. There were a few last night, but tonight it’s constant!
Thunder does not bother my 15-year old dog, but these fireworks are terrifying her. Even the cats are upset. And I hate them. They’ll go on til after midnight, which is three hours from now.
Setting off fireworks is stupid, pointless, disruptive, dangerous, and juvenile. Has nothing to do with patriotism or love of country or celebration of the nation’s founding.
I can’t even imagine how distressing they must be to someone with combat-related PTSD.
I like fireworks. The only time I use them is the night of 7/4. I also observe any local codes. For example, the county has banned the sale and use of fireworks this year, as well they should because this place is a tinderbox right now.
I sympathize with the OP, though, because I’ve had a pet dog run away on 7/4.
Last night right at midnight, some asswipe set off some dynamite. He (gotta be a he) did the same last year and will likely do it again tonight. Please, thoughts and prayers that the motherfucker is maimed tonight so we don’t have to go through this again in a year.
We can hear the rumble of the official professional fireworks in the distance, but they’re not loud enough to be a nuisance. Our neighborhood has had only a few sporadic pops this evening, but they were loud enough to send the cat scurrying under the couch. She’s re-emerged now, looking a bit wary.
One more thing that unites Americans and Canadians: We have these fucking fucks creating a war zone both before and after July 1, youse guys have it before and after July 4, so there is a common period of around a week when we all want to kill the fuckers and get some peace!