Fireworks are not what the Fourth is all about

Published 4:23 pm Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Thank you, Muckleshoot, and all the morons who bought fireworks that shake the entire block when they go off.

Thank you, on behalf of my Downs daughter, who is scared to death and crying.

Thank you, on behalf of the 82-year-old neighbor lady, who is standing in her front yard shaking because she is confused and thinks a war started.

Thank you, for all the animals in my neighborhood that are scared to death and don’t understand what’s happening. Thank you, for three other neighbors with babies crying. Thanks, that in the morning I will have litter all over my yard and street. And I especially thank you, on behalf of all the veterans with PTSD who are flashing back to the worst time of their lives.

This is not what the Fourth is about.

I am so sorry, dear Muckleshoot Nation, that you don’t make enough money on the casino that you have to bring terror to my neighborhood.

Oh, and thanks for all those who had to get up in the morning, go to work and listen to this crap till 3 in the morning. Maybe if you lived here in Southeast Auburn you would only sell legal fireworks. It’s not just on the Fourth, but we have to listen to (the fireworks) from the time you start selling them in early June ’til 10 days after the Fourth.

– Dr. Jim Brass