Fireworks

So it's another holiday with fireworks.

Oh its not. It's the day before the holiday. And 2 days before and 3 days before. Fireworks going on day and night. And they will go on day after day after the holiday.

I'm angry. It's been 5 hours and my male Jack Russell terrier has been to afraid to pee. Everytime he goes out to the backyard some fireworks explode and he runs for the back door.

Fireworks that explode are supposed to only be used by farmers to scare off pests. I live in the middle of the city. We don't have any farmers here. Instead we have pests that set off the fireworks. So why are these fireworks bought? Because people lie and teach their children to break the law. People sign a form stating they are using them for agricultural purposes and buy them.

Apparently over the years efforts to make the law stiffer has failed in Florida Legislature. I guess fireworks money talks and safety and peace and quiet does not.

So the efforts turned to banning these city by city, county by county. In 2003 Pinellas County pass a law banning all fireworks except smoke bombs and sparklers. There was attempt to do so in Hillsborough County in 2003 but it failed.

Rhonda Storms of course had something to say then, " "When you close your eyes and you think of July Fourth, what do you think of?" said Commissioner Ronda Storms, conjuring images of barefoot children waving sparklers and their fathers shooting off the real thing.
"Baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet - and fireworks," Storms added."

So did the firework people ""Thank God for the Hillsborough County Commission," said Todd Pressman, a lobbyist for the fireworks industry."

Thomas Scott voted against the ban. Another reason to get rid of the guy.

I will be bring this issue to anyone running for County commission. Asking them to commit to banning all except smoke bombs and sparklers. Ask them to give my dog some peace and quiet.

Maybe if I made this a Homeland Security Issue something would happen. With this easy access to explosives there could be some local whacko terrorist grinding up firecrackers to create a massive bomb to explode at Macdill AFB. Hear that Michael Chertoff?