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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I love the new people to the city that are chiming in saying, "oh it's the 4th of July, just let things be". This is a DC summer thing that starts around the 4th of July and goes all summer. [/b]It is not a few bangs and then over. Some people, not me, get genuinely disturbed by the randomness.

But the police will never arrest anybody concerning the explosions because of the demographics involved with those entertained by blowing things up all summer. It is simply not worth it.[/quote]

Um, what are you talking about? [b]The newbies are usually the complainers.[/b] I'm a DC native and it's tradition to me. I don't participate in any of the illegal ones, but we set of lots of the legal ones and enjoy seeing others throughout the neighborhood. Most of us are used to it. It's definitely crazy the days surroounding the 4th, but it's really not all summer except sporadically. [/quote]

I've been here 20 years but in my experience, there have been many things DC natives have needed to hear about the arse-backwards small southern town they pretended was a city until things got a bit more cosmopolitan recently. Tolerating quality of life crimes again is a huge step backward.

Fireworks outside of professional displays were illegal in the much bigger city I grew up in. I just don't get the tolerance for dumb yokels setting off explosives in the alleys here. It's not cute at all. [/quote]

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