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Friday, July 18, 2025

Do your job, just do your job officers

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I did not ring in the new year on a hap­py note. If you could see me now, you would know why. By my feet are the re­mains of a rock­et set off in my neigh­bour­hood on Old Year's night.I picked it up be­tween my car and my gate af­ter it whis­tled its way to the sky and then plum­met­ed back to earth. I could have sworn that it was some test flight from NASA.

This is the last year I in­tend to sit here and take this wan­ton dis­re­gard for the law, and I think this should be your last year to be held at ran­som by a set of law­break­ers who think they are above the law be­cause they have mon­ey to waste on fire­works.Why should good, law-abid­ing cit­i­zens be at the mer­cy of self­ish, in­con­sid­er­ate, law­break­ing peo­ple? For all those peo­ple who have told me, "Light­en up, it's just a lit­tle fun, just a means of cel­e­brat­ing," let me state why set­ting off fire­works in neigh­bour­hoods is wrong.

1. Set­ting off fire­works is against the law. That's not a laugh­ing mat­ter.No one has the right to break the law.You're not above the law–no mat­ter how much mon­ey you have for fan­cy fire­works.

2. Set­ting off fire­works in neigh­bour­hoods is dan­ger­ous. Oth­er coun­tries–de­vel­oped coun­tries like the ones we look up to for our 2020 vi­sion–have strict laws about set­ting off fire­works be­cause peo­ple have been in­jured or died. Are we go­ing to wait for this to hap­pen be­fore we take this crime se­ri­ous­ly?

3. All those spark­ly fire­works are a fire haz­ard. I am a law-abid­ing cit­i­zen and I shouldn't have to wor­ry about peo­ple burn­ing down my house be­cause their idea of fun is to break the law.

4. Where's there's fire­works there's smoke. That means fire­works is a form of pol­lu­tion.

The en­vi­ron­ment doesn't ap­pre­ci­ate the lit­ter. We don't need it. It's un­nec­es­sary.

5. Fire­works are se­ri­ous noise pol­lu­tion. It is not fun to be scared out of your wits every time they go off.

There are peo­ple who have med­ical con­di­tions that don't need this fright.

6. Fire­works are an­i­mal abuse. We all know how scared dogs and cats get.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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