The time for illegal amateur fireworks is...

[conuly]

well never, that's when, but in the interests of not being reviled as the neighborhood buzzkill I will begrudgingly accept "July 4, between the hours of 6pm and 10:30pm, 11pm if the next day is a weekend".

My goodwill does not stretch all the way to July 11, 3:37 in the morning. JFC.

Comments

[brokenallbroken]

Co-signed. I've been hearing them around here on and off since Memorial Day.

[conuly]

Seriously, why anybody, anybody, ANYBODY would pick 3 in the morning as the time to let 'em rip, I don't know.

[brokenallbroken]

Oh, that sucks. I don't normally hear them that late/early, but I want to murder whoever set that one off just as I was finally drifting off to sleep last night.

[adafrog]

OMG!

[conuly]

Too. Early. For. That. Shit.

[sallymn]

Omigod...

Here, they are basically illegal for private use. You want fireworks, you go to the ones arranged by councils etc.

[conuly]

Oh, they're very illegal in NYC too! But people do seem to manage to get their hands on them, because state and municipal laws vary and nobody is stopping all incomers to make sure they're not smuggling explosives.

[silveradept]

Absolutely not this late. Doesn't matter what they think or say.

[gatheringrivers]

Most jurisdictions have rules about loud noises after a certain time of night. Usually it's around 11pm, I think?

I tend to assume anything after 10pm is pushing it, unless I'm in an area full of elderly in which case I'll probably knock it back to....8pm or "when it's dark" whichever comes first, lol. My late grandmother always went to bed early, and was always up early too.

[conuly]

Technically the noise code is in enforcement at all times, but you'd have to be a real jerk to call in a noise complaint to 311 at, say, noon.

[gwydion]

I agree.