Here we go again. The pyrotechnic punks can’t wait until New Year’s Eve. They start in November and terrorize their neighborhoods with their obnoxious bombs at all hours of the day, every day, until January.

We need to stop this madness once and for all. We can do this by turning in our neighbors. Yes, because you know when it’s your neighbor. That’s the only way we can catch these idiots. People with aloha don’t bomb their neighborhoods for kicks, so why should you show them aloha by allowing them to do it? Does anyone enjoy being jolted out of bed by an unexpected, earth-shattering bomb detonated next door? Of course not.

In Hawaii, we’re too tolerant of bad behavior, reluctant to complain and don’t want to get involved. Well, let’s change that. Let’s all start reporting these troublemakers to the police now, so we don’t have to continue to be terrorized in our own neighborhoods every holiday season.

Brian Yamane

Moanalua

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Faint siren wouldn’t offer much warning

Sirens? What sirens?

My wife and I were sitting watching TV with windows open. At 11 a.m., nothing. About 11:45, my wife said, “Is that the sirens?”

I went to the window and in the distance, faintly, was a siren which could have been a police car or a fire engine.

What a lead-up and what a flop. Hopefully we won’t have to face the real thing as there will be no warning.

Paul Tyksinski

Kailua

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Shelter homeless in monster houses

There is an easy, seamless way to solve the three “problems” we seem to have currently running in Honolulu, and I’m surprised that our politicians haven’t already come up with the idea.

And that is to require those “entrepreneurs” who are either building “monster houses” or amassing Airbnb fortunes to take in the homeless and shelter them for a bit — in the extra rooms or spaces that defy or flaunt code or are just flat-out illegal. The number of homeless invited would be in direct proportion to the size of the issue in question.

In no time, thousands of people would be off the streets and the “entrepreneurs” could confidently know that they moved from being part of the problem to being part of the solution.

Chip Davey

Downtown Honolulu

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Sex misconduct light should be on Trump

It’s strangely interesting how the media is reporting on TV anchors, moguls and politicians accused of sexual misconduct — but why the silence on Donald Trump’s sexual misconduct? At least 13 women have publicly claimed that Trump behaved inappropriately with them.

Lynne Zane

Aina Haina

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Bitcoin should be permitted in Hawaii

It was both an interesting piece on bitcoin (“Bitcoin digital currency a speculative investment,” Associated Press, News Q&A, Nov. 30), and interesting that it would be run in the local newspaper, since the Hawaii bureaucracy, in it’s usual muddle-headed way, has denied all local banking institutions from doing transactions involving the currency.

If you are a resident of Hawaii, you cannot send funds from anywhere in the state to purchase bitcoin from an exchange, nor can you use any credit card with a Hawaii billing address.

Why, you might ask? I don’t think that there’s ever been a reasonable explanation given.

Jim Wolery

Kaneohe

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U.S., stop meddling in others’ affairs

I just read that the United States wants Germany to recall its ambassador to North Korea. Who are they — the United States — to tell other countries what to do?

This United States would be far better off talking to North Korea instead of making fun of its leader. Since World War II, the U.S. has fought with everyone on the planet and I think the time has come that the U.S. concentrate on its problems here instead of meddling in other countries’ affairs.

I am deeply concerned and afraid that our leaders have taken us on the wrong path.

Ursula Meyer

Hawaii Kai

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Just enjoy lit-up tree this holiday season

Since the city has gone ahead and issued the temporary permit to legally light the tree across from Roy’s in Hawaii Kai through the early part of January 2018, why can’t we all agree to enjoy it and the other hundreds of trees we already light up for the holidays?

If the same permit is issued for next year, we’ll have 11 months to talk about it. I just want to spend my Christmas arguing about this kind of thing.

Mike McFarlane

Kinau

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Conceal-carry raises chances of survivial

Regarding the deterrence of a potential mass shooter, one letter writer claims it is propaganda that “a ‘good guy’ can’t act before the ‘bad guy’ has begun his rampage” (“‘Good guy’ can’t stop determined ‘bad guy,’” Star Advertiser, Letters, Nov. 13.) The main way concealed-weapons carriers deter potential bad shooters, is by the knowledge that good shooters could defend themselves. At no time should one assume that anyone who conceal-carry could, would or should defend others out of the goodness of their hearts.

Even if only 10 percent of people with conceal-carry authority decide to defend themselves, it is still better than no one firing back at a bad shooter until police arrive. Bottom line: The more people who conceal-carry, the greater are one’s chances of surviving a shooting incident.

Russel Noguchi

Pearl City