Even before Christmas, the loud explosions rattled my neighborhood — you know, the kind that sound like an M-80 on steroids. Since Christmas passed and we crept closer to New Year’s Eve, more explosions are going off daily. They set off car alarms blocks away, shake your home and send pets for cover.

Illegal fireworks are so commonplace that most are apathetic to doing anything about it. Politicians grandstand on the issue, but year after year it continues.

Mr. Mayor, why don’t you institute $10,000 fines on those setting off these bombs, as you have done with transient vacation rentals? As with red-light camera tickets, the fine would go to the property owner where the bomb came from, regardless of who set it off, and half the fine can be paid as a finder’s fee to those who turn in the violators.

Let’s be fair to all about ruining the fabric of neighborhoods, and instill a fine and fear to those who break the law.

Bryan Holt

Aiea

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