Illegal fireworks--do you neighbors set them off

Most of the neighbors use harmless little fireworks. But one neighbor has the big and loud ones. I am not sure where they get them at, but they usually start blasting them off about a week before the 4th and usually a week after. I just find it annoying.

My husband is miffed by the fact that we cannot set off fireworks. He states that in the Netherlands it is legal to set them off in your back yard. How safe is this really?

We live in such an area and we have heard a few going off last night and even today. It is so dry here I hope that nothing bad happens to threaten our homes. I think I mentioned that here in Ohio though they sell them we have to sign a paper saying that we will be going out of the state with them. Walmart sells a package of them and I am not sure about that procedure. Might be the minor but still dangerous ones. We will have a front row seat tonight since we are in town and very near the fairgrounds where they set them off. Have a nice movie!!

the ones behind us drink all day,then tend to wait until 1am at least to set them off. i usually let it go unless they're directly firing them near something flammable on my property. i wouldn't doubt if the other neighbors call on them though (it's illegal here also).

Fireworks are not legal in my neighbourhood either. I pretty much stay out of it however. There is a lot of noise asscoicated with them, but it does not happen too often so I let it go. I can see how the smoke could be a problem for some people however. cheers,

Where I live I think the rule is that fireworks that go higher than the power lines are illegal, (bottle rockets and roman candles for example) but everyone just crosses the state border to buy fireworks in a state with fewer restrictions. I prefer watching a professional show, but the men in my family love setting off their own.

My neighbors set some off. As far as I know they're illegal, but they don't bother me and my son was having the time of his life watching them. This was the first year that he's seen fireworks. I did call the police a few years ago when people were setting off fireworks right in front of our house (and it wasn't us or either of our immediate neighbors). I wouldn't have had a problem, except that it was about 2 in the morning and my son kept being woke by them. Not to mention doing it in front of our house -- not in the street, but on the sidewalk and very close to our car. It ticked me off. When I told them to stop they laughed. When the police arrived (they were right around the block and came without flashers or sirens) the kids weren't laughing anymore.