Anyone Else Have Fireworks Going Off In Your Neighborhood Last Night?

[CO Liberal]

We did. Our dogs don't like fireworks, especially our older dog Peanut. It might have something to do with the one Fourth of July when one of our asshole neighbors fired off a bottle rocket that landed a few feet from where Peanut was sitting.

So last night, the girls slept in the house.

[Lady Effingbroke]

1. fireworks and gunshots...as per usual.

It's Texas, whaddaya expect? :shrug:

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Same here...

It's Newark, NJ, whaddaya expect? :shrug:

But, I bet no one else had the potbanger I had across the street.

[Lady Effingbroke]

7. no pot bangers, just pot...and loud music.

as well as the aforementioned gunshots and fireworks. :smoke:

[Bertha Venation]

2. Poor Peanut.

It was very quiet here last night. I couldn't sleep so I was reading in bed and I noticed I hadn't heard any ruckus. Looked at the clock and was surprised to learn it was past 1:00 AM. The only noise I'd heard was the air raid siren at the VFD -- it had gone off three times since I'd gone to bed at 10:00.

Happy new year to you & Princess, CO Lib :hi:

[CO Liberal]

6. And A Happy 2005 to You Too, Bertha!!

:hi:

[tnlefty]

3. Yes, and it's the first time anyone has shot fireworks here on New

Year's Eve. Fireworks are illegal here, but the sheriff's dept. usually looks the other way on the 4th of July. Was there any significance to fireworks last night?

[Indiana_Dem]

4. Yes, they were going off all around.

I suppose we'll have fireworks more and more every New Year's now just like people started easter egg trees for Easter!

[slackmaster]

8. A few whistles and one brief burst of automatic weapons fire

All of which is totally illegal in California.

Typical New Year's Eve.

[CO Liberal]

10. With That Automatic Weapon Fire....

...it sounds like someone was trying to emulate your Governator....

[Solly Mack]

9. For several hours

My husband, who served in Iraq, said they looked like tracers in the night sky. It did look like those images you see of tracers. I guess fireworks will never just be "fireworks" to him again.

The sky was full, as far as they eyes could see, with fireworks and smoke.

The smoke got so thick that apartment buildings disappeared in the haze.

[supernova]

11. Firecrackers and guns

are what's for New Year's here in the backwoods of Orange County, NC. :smoke:

[RebelOne]

19. Yep, same here in the suburban area of Woodstock

just north of Atlanta. These rednecks don't realize that when bullets are shot into the air, they have to come down somewhere, which could result in someone being killed.

[Catshrink]

12. They scared little Bratwurst

my poor little puppy!

[Lady Effingbroke]

13. Bratwurst? Hahahaha, what a GREAT name!!!!

And what a cutie!

[Catshrink]

14. I'm not sure it's going to stick...

He's an explorer so I'm thinking of Lewis, Louie, Louie-Louie. He's a snuggler too.

[CO Liberal]

15. It Was Bratwurst's First New Year's Eve!!!!

:-)

[Catshrink]

16. Yep! Poor little guy.

I love my puppy.

[Hans Delbrook]

20. Ohhh, I love dachshunds!

You should see my Dante - he's so cute too; black and tan standard.

Your guy is so sweet (I want a puppy!)

[Orsino]

17. It started before dark...

...but was never very loud or frequent.

We are staying in after dark, anyway, since my wife startled a lone coyote on our driveway.

[skygazer]

18. No just a cannon and a train whistle

It's very rural here but my landlord has a small cannon of some sort that he sets off on New Year's along with a train whistle. Hubby had to work today - :grr: - so we were in bed by 9:30, awoke briefly for the racket and then back to sleep. ~sigh~

[bigwillq]

21. NO

:hi:

[hellhathnofury]

22. Honolulu goes firework crazy...

Constant barrage from about dusk till 1 AM.

[Tsiyu]

23. According to our family tradition, you blow off fireworks

or at least bang pots and pans and pump the 12 gauge a few times.

That's how you keep the demons from 2004 from entering 2005. We started well before midnight CST and had a lovely display.

My two horses were spooky but I stood by their pen and talked to them grained them and explained it to them. I want them to be "bomb proof." My neighbor can shoot a rifle off the back of her mare.

Mona Lisa, the younger gal, is a hot-tempered puppy dog if that makes sense. She was ready for battle.

Sassamass, the old gal, has been through more fireworks than any horse I know, but she still got worked up a bit. In the end they munched grain as the rockets red glare so all was well.

The funny thing is, this morning when we said the word "fireworks" Mona Lisa snapped to attention and made ready to run. Guess in all my talking to them last night, she figured out what that word means!

[Cush]

24. yup

some tonight as well

[da_chimperor]

25. It sounded like Chinese new year in Beijing around my place

The dutch brick buildings do a great job of amplifying the noise. It was annoying as all hell. There wasn't any professional fireworks shows, rather countless gifted amateurs setting them off left and right.