We need to stop assaulting family, friends with fireworks - Edi...

the "short-term pollution caused by particulate matter." in Hawaii is caused primarily by the volcanic activity, stop trying to manipulate data for your own agenda.

Scott wrote:

the "short-term pollution caused by particulate matter." in Hawaii is caused primarily by the volcanic activity, stop trying to manipulate data for your own agenda.

It was a great article so please go back to sleep.

I for one that live here in Hawaii liked it very much.

IT would be nice if those who like to breathe could once again on the 4th and New Years. The present fireworks policy is selfish and inconsiderate.Ban all fireworks for public purchase and use in Hawaii please.

Pat wrote:

IT would be nice if those who like to breathe could once again on the 4th and New Years. The present fireworks policy is selfish and inconsiderate.Ban all fireworks for public purchase and use in Hawaii please.

Lets see, the minority here are the people that want the ban. So I ask you who is the selfish one here. I will give you a hint
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Jean, please get a life! And get off your soapbox. Fireworks are LEGAL, citizens can LEGALLY use them twice (2) times per year. The overwhelming majority of the citizens in Hawaii support the present laws. Again, Jean, GET A LIFE!!

If short term pollution caused by particulate matter is the rationale for banning fireworks, then let's ban all such offenders: cars, busses, trucks, motorcycles, charcoal, bbq smokers, cigarettes, cigars, huli huli chicken, HECO power plant, and oh yeah, Kilauea.

Making it illegal does not make them go away; Prohibition taught us that.

kaipo wrote:

Jean, please get a life! And get off your soapbox. Fireworks are LEGAL, citizens can LEGALLY use them twice (2) times per year. The overwhelming majority of the citizens in Hawaii support the present laws. Again, Jean, GET A LIFE!!

Right on!!

Next we should limit car amplifiers to 15 amps to cut down on noise pollution.

Somebody always wants to ban what others enjoy.

Typical posts of the kind we have come to expect defending the dirty, dangerous, noisy, and toxic fireworks that go off now year round in neighborhoods all over Oahu. And now the Ainokea idiots move the "cultural practice" to Aiea High School. "Michele Moore said she is angry at the person who put her daughter and hundreds of other students in danger by setting off an apparently homemade chemical bomb at Aiea High School yesterday."

Emboldened by the thousands of explosions that are set off without consequence, someone has decided to bring the fun to school. Following the example of his elders and knowing that blowing things up is cool, the perp was merely carrying things to the next level, at which anyplace and anytime is okay for blowing off a bomb.

Fire works should be voted on by voters and be done with. Perhaps allowed only in the rainy season.

whateva wrote:

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Lets see, the minority here are the people that want the ban. So I ask you who is the selfish one here. I will give you a hint
Y
O
U
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Y
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Bogey1 wrote:

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Right on!!
Next we should limit car amplifiers to 15 amps to cut down on noise pollution.
Somebody always wants to ban what others enjoy.

Let's ban S-e-x !

I'll go under cover and let you know my evaluation, but it may take a very long time.

Just doing my duty.

Von in Aiea wrote:

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Let's ban S-e-x !
I'll go under cover and let you know my evaluation, but it may take a very long time.
Just doing my duty.

LOL

You can go under cover if you want, unless you are a chapman then you can do it in public.

Are all of you fireworks proponents having a successful prosperous year every year that merits setting off explosives? Probably not. Year in and year out I see the same people setting off fireworks - Losers. Cultural my a**. Ban it already.

whateva wrote:

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LOL
You can go under cover if you want, unless you are a chapman then you can do it in public.

There are weirdo's and then there are weirdoe's.

My mind just crossed that out completely yesterday and then now you brought it back again.:)

Aloha

No ban, thanks.

Born and raised Hawaiin and I know no one that wants it banned. Who and where are these people that want to ban fireworks? I have yet to meet one.

Really! What makes a bunch of new Green Card citizen's in Kalihi Valley believe that they can carry-on for days, in their garages and on the streets--with endless Karaoke and Fireworks until 5AM?
Moreover, help me to understand how families on Welfare and Food Stamps can acquire over $2K worth of Fireworks--when they can't even afford car insurance, food, or clothing!? It's outrageous! Moreover--WHERE WAS HPD?
In a Nine Hour period--not one HPD Patrol car could be seen in Kalihi Valley, while endless aerials and illegal fireworks were flaring all night long and music you could hear all the way to Mauai! Maybe we need to have more classes, before immigrating certain minorities--SUCH AS PHILLIPINO's and MICRONESIANS, in particular! They behave like wild animals (oh, I forgot to mention the LIVE GOATS/CHICKENS and then the ominous odor's of those animals being cooked! Ahwheee!) WITH NO REGARD FOR ANYONE!! Check-out the GRAFFITTI on the walls of the projects on the Likelike and Kalihi Street! So, where's HPD (related, maybe?)?

I don't know of any families on food stamps spending thousands of dollars on fireworks. Just because folks are dressed casually, doesn't indicate their economic status.

Whereever I go, I am dressed in my "bodos" and you'd never be able to tell that I am in the top income bracket in Hawaii. I do spend a lot of cash on fireworks for my friends and family to enjoy on New Years.

If you haven't grown up with the custom, you don't appreciate it. If you insist on imposing your values and socially accepted norms on the society you freely relocated to, you will be unhappy. We're not going to change because of a small vocal minority... li dat.

Ban it.

I was so glad and grateful I could find refuge from the choking clouds of smoke and eardrum splitting noise at Malaekahana Cabins, a haven from fireworks. If the majority insists on fireworks, at least provide havens and cities of refuge for those who are sickened by them.

I live in dread each holiday that include fireworks...I have fears my pets my run off due to the noise and smoke if I do not have them secured in the house. The the thought of flares on the roof....this has happened but thankfully witout a fire...and the noise?!!!! but the worst is the smoke to which I suffer greatly...I can exect a week of wheezing, and my son will develope a sinus infection...guarenteed. I hope to be building a home on Hawaii Loa Ridge soon and the motivating factor for this finantial streatch.....NO FIREWORKS ALLOWED!!! City Council...STOP THE MADDNESS and the pure WASTE of money!!!!

Is is my imagination or are the lower economic areas of the island the smokiest and noiseist each fire works holiday?