sillypixie's Journal: More one-tooth stories

Remember the guy who dumped the propane bottle into the campfire and blew it up?

Well he was back at it this July long weekend. This time, the adults appear to have gotten completely wasted on various substances including but most definitely not limited to mushrooms and alcohol, just in time for the fireworks display.

I didn't even go next-door. I couldn't bear to see the mayhem. But I was treated to squeals of consternation and fear and various obviously dangerous looking flashes through the trees as several of the larger fireworks started out upright, and then proceeded to fall over and randomly spray the entire area with pyrotechnics. That whole thing on the instructions about securing the firework in something like sand -- psssht, who needs that?

Later they had the idea of jamming the firework into a tree so it wouldn't spray the crowd -- except in their intoxicated stupor, they jammed the firework in upside down, and sent everything bouncing across the lawn instead... ... and I'm sure they got their 7-year-old kids to throw the spent fireworks into the campfire. That's just par for the course.

Unbelievable. And people wonder why fireworks are illegal in so many places...

Could you have gotten them in trouble?

[NeMon'ess]

Would the police have done anything? Would there be repercussions for you?

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[nizo]

Unless someone was bleeding or shooting a gun, I am guessing the police where pretty overtaxed that day :-| Of course, filming it might have worked; at the very least you might have had something good to post on youtube :-)

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[sillypixie]

I would never have called the cops on them. They are super-nice people with hearts of gold, this is literally the only thing that I shake my head at. I would rather stand by with the garden hose & a first-aid kit than ever get them in trouble.

It's strange - I hate this one habit, but I think they are great people. They would give you the shirt off their backs if it would help, seriously. So, what do you do? It's their home, their kids, and their life. As long as they don't injure my family or bu

Sad

[Shadow Wrought]

The saddest part is that the kids will grow up thinking that they know all about fireworks and how to use them. Grrr.

No fires?

[johndiii]

It seems surprising that they didn't burn anything down - if only a swath of the woods. Most years down here, a debacle like that would have ignited at least a couple of serious grass fires. It's probably not so dry up there, but still... They seem to be begging for Darwinian consequences.

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[sillypixie]

It was a very wet June, so everything was reasonably resistant to fire.

August is a different story -- but there are fire bans usually in August for that very reason.

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Your stories are so much better than mine

[Engineer-Poet]

My neighbors in back are just uncouth and tear up the grass, though that's changed lately.