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Limit fireworks use
Address and name withheld upon request:
I live in Walled Lake near Pontiac Trail and Quiniff Street. It seems that every night is fireworks night, not just the Fourth of July. All I want is a little peace and quiet. If people want to hear loud noise let them go off in a field 100 miles away. It’s not fair to disturb other neighbors every single night and not just on the Fourth of July.
I applaud the city of Novi for enacting a fireworks ordinance to only make it legal to set fireworks off one day before and one day after a national holiday and on the holiday. I hope other cities follow with Novi’s new ordinance. I don’t mind fireworks on the one day of the holiday, but every single night is not right, and especially not late at night after midnight.
13 Responses to Limit fireworks use
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AJ
July 12, 2012 at 12:08 am
“Address and name withheld upon request”
I think that if you’re going to write a public complaint letter to a newspaper, then it should be required that you also have your name published along with your complaint.
Charlotte
July 12, 2012 at 10:37 am
If they published their name, there could be retaliation for the complaint…and why should it matter who sent in the complaint. I too have been in that area for a week or more and every night there are firecrackers. This not only disturbs people but dogs, and the dogs seem to have the biggest problem with the noise.
AJ
July 12, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Charlotte: “why should it matter who sent in the complaint”
Good question!
I think that readers should be able to know who the letter writer is in order to assess what that writer’s true motives are and what position they hold in real life – which their name and location will likely tell us. This information is important to know for a number of reasons.
It will tell us if this complaint was written by one of our politicians, or one of our police or fire chiefs, or any number of people who are publicly accountable to all of us. It will also likely tell us if the complainer has a proverbial or political axe to grind. Both of which will color how we all view this complaint.
I mean honestly, this being an election year and all, for all we know this complaint letter was written by a Super PAC that wants to influence us while also remaining anonymous. (They’re sneaky like that!)
So knowing who this letter was written by and where that person (or group) is located, will affect how everyone reading this letter responds to it. And I think that in order to respond appropriately to this complaint letter, we need to know who this person (or group) is and where he, she, or they are coming from (both ideologically and geographically). And the only way to know those things is if the Spinal Column posts this person’s (or group’s) name and location.
Charlotte: “dogs seem to have the biggest problem with the noise”
I’ve seen that dogs, like horses, can be properly trained to not have a problem with loud noises. :c)
Look in the Mirror
July 12, 2012 at 1:46 pm
“I think that if you’re going to write a public complaint letter to a newspaper, then it should be required that you also have your name published along with your complaint.”
Like the name AJ?
AJ
July 12, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Sort of.
If you’ll indulge me for a moment, I’ll further explain my point of view:
I think that we should all be able to know if this broadly disseminated, editor approved, Anonymous complaint was made by an anti-business person, or a politician we elected, or even our own next-door neighbor or family member.
Then we could all properly respond in kind with our own letters knowing full well who we are responding to and where exactly they are coming from (both ideologically and geographically).
And the fact is, publishing a complaint in your newspaper is different than allowing comments on your website (many of which newspaper editors would never allow to be printed in their publications). For one thing, there’s far more editorial consideration involved concerning what letters make it into print – and not just anyone (or any group) can get their letters published there (unlike online). For another, by picking and choosing what letters get printed, SCN has more of a hand in (and thus more personal responsibility regarding) what comments, ideas, and beliefs get conveyed. So there’s definitely a different standard depending on the medium and what sort of ‘filter’ the message has to go through. Hence why I think that it’s less appropriate to see anonymous letters in a newspaper than anonymous posts in an internet comment section.
…and for the record, AJ is indeed my first name. :c)
Look in the Mirror
July 13, 2012 at 7:08 am
And simply listing your first name addresses none of your comments.
AJ
July 13, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Once again, you miss my point.
Look in the Mirror
July 16, 2012 at 3:38 pm
With all due respect, AJ. I think I see your point exactly. I just don’t see your last name.
AJ
July 19, 2012 at 3:19 pm
You will if I ever write a complaint that’s published in the SCN. :c)
Jj
July 16, 2012 at 10:38 pm
AJ, what seems to be missed in your tome is that leaders must take every complaint into account. Failure to post a name only means that they don’t want the city inspector breathing down their neck looking for phony violations because the mayor owns the fireworks stand on the corner. Anti-business? Maybe the fireworks “business” is anti-resident, anti-family and anti-health. Who holds you accountable…we do. We are the city because we are the people.
Councilmembers, be forewarned: we will assess your stand on fireworks, and failure to pass an ordinance means we will not reelect you, no matter how long and old boy network happy you believe you are. Moms rule…and we say control this or we will.
Jj
July 16, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Oh, and AJ, bullies always believe they are victims of unfairness. Get what I’m telling you?
AJ
July 19, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Not entirely. How about you specifically spell it out.
Barbara Hurn
July 18, 2012 at 3:15 pm
I live in the same area and it was terrible how many fireworks were set off. One sounded like it was coming in my bedroom window. Please Walled Lake set some rules in regards to the fireworks. I bet the Governor didn’t have this problem.