I didn't think I would have a strong opinion on the topic, but last night my 15-month-old convinced me to be anti-fireworks.
Anyone else following this? (legalization of Fireworks in Iowa)
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The Iowa legislature had more important things to deal with than fireworks, and yet they found the time. I guess the police will just have to suck it up and find the time too.
Hahaha, by Federal? I live in a neighborhood with quite a few Hispanics and fireworks were going off already last night.
So most people have the next day off work. Sucks to have fireworks going off until after midnight and have the alarm go off at 4:00 the next day.
I'm shooting them off tonight but have let all neighbors know. Hopefully Johnston police have better things to do then write me a ticket.
Agree, WAY overrated. Unless you're 12 maybe.
Personally, I don't even think they're entertaining on the 4th either. Maybe if cities shot everything they had at once and it lasted like 5 minutes, that would be kinda cool. But no, they drag everything out to like 20 or 30 minutes and by the end you just want them to be over already.
Believe me, the police are annoyed about people calling in about it.
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Actually, I think this is a great idea. Just like how the Super Bowl should be moved to Saturday too. Then, almost everyone would have the day after off.
I have to get up early on Weds the 5th to go to work, so I won't be up very late tomorrow night at all.
That sucks take a day or two off them. I just don't see the point of celebrating a holiday the day before.
Oh, I believe you. But the fact is it is going to generate a lot of calls, that is just the way it is. For the record I'm fairly ambivalent about the law. I'm not going to buy any but I'm sitting here on the sun porch watching them go off and it is sort of entertaining.
I think it helps if you're done by about 10 or so. Johnston has quite a bit of area & not all that many officers, so you'd have to be pretty unlucky to get ticketed.
I have a 9 week old baby and a dog that barks at loud noises outside. **** this ****!
How did our wise lawmakers think that this was worth their time to put this into law?
How did our wise lawmakers think that this was worth their time to put this into law?
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Cops stopped bye for a quick visit but no ticket. Said they have got a lot of complaints tonight in the city so just had me wrapped it up.
We had fireworks going in Indianola until 1:30 last night. The third prescription we tried this week for our pups finally worked, for the most part, but wore off long before they stopped. Someone must have bought a couple hundred of those big mortar-type fireworks, because those were going off for about 7 hours straight.
