I think that instead of worrying about the red light cameras that may or may not be illegal, if the city wants to make some bucks, why not start enforcing the fireworks laws that are already on the books?
Loud noise, nusance, fire hazard... take your pick.
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They dont have enouhgh manpower to hunt down every idiot red neck setting off cherry bombs in the alley. By the time the police car rolls up the knuckleheads are long gone.
In these parts the local constabulary has been known to participate in setting off fireworks displays.
what about idiots blowing off commercial grade fireworks in residential neighborhoods from their own back yards? that's a little more than cherry bombs in an alley.
Right on, Billy! We have gone to see the fireworks from the East side of the river the past few years, and I'm always amazed at the amount/type of fireworks people are blowing off in their front yards. And the police cruise right on by.
The obvious solution is to put cameras in everyone's back yards.
the other day I swept the burnt fallout off my roof... it was laying right beside a pile of dried maple leaf helicopters in one of the valleys in the roof... looked sorta like a fire hazard to me...
(laughs at jmleong's witticism)
Agreed that there are some fools around town who possess fireworks far beyond their skill level and sobriety level. Last year my neighbors started the fireworks stupidity by mid-June, and they went day and night until weeks after the Fourth of July. One day it was raining, and they couldn't even wait for the rain to end, so they started lighting off the fireworks from the garage.
You know: the building with the gas can, paint, paint thinner, and other combustibles? I was amazed at their recklessness, and I took some pictures (notice the ubiquitous empty beer cans and the fact that the homeowner's car is right in front of the projectile pathway):
posted by historymike on Jun 28, 2010 at 10:22:31 am #
What an idiot!!
The people that do it the most on our street just had their house raided and were taken away to jail last Friday. Pretty sure that house will be real quiet this year!! (thankfullly!!)
In the case of my incendiary-obsessed neighbors, a group of 20-somethings who own their house, they have been quiet so far this year. Last year they possessed some serious aerial firepower, stuff you would normally see at a municipal display. Some of these ordinances were so powerful that they shook the buildings for a half-block or so.
They have otherwise been fairly tolerable neighbors (parties not too loud and settled down by midnight, muffler-less motorcycles only in transit, no crazy drama or fights), but in the Department of Boom they have been quite annoying in the past.
posted by historymike on Jun 28, 2010 at 12:05:20 pm #
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