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Yew Year's fireworks These days many peoples have tradition to light (set off) fireworks at a New Year's holiday. My neighbours like to do it as well. Some of them set fireworks off before the midnight and others do it after the midnight, so we have several hours of a pyrotechnic show. We don't close our windows with curtains to not miss the next salute. I was waiting for this New Year's night with a special thrill. Why? I'll tell you. Look at the picture below. That's a sight from my window. The last New Year's night some company decided to set off a firework at the place I've marked with a red circle on the picture. One guy fired it and ran to the rest of the company. He did not make sure that a box was set up steady. After the first shot the box rolled onto its side. So all the other shots went not straight up in the air but into the house on the left side of the picture. It looked like a rocket attack. Those little rockets fell into wall, windows. Some of them ricocheted right into cars parked like on the photo. One of the rockets striked one car and ricocheted to another and back to the first car. That was just like in a movie! I would not be surprised if Bruce Willis suddenly came up and saved all of us))) Fortunately no one got harmed. The rockets did not get inside throw open windows and did not set the cars on fire. Me and my girlfriend exclaimed "What bastards" and looked at the place where that company was standing. But there was nobody by the time. This year my neighbours set fireworks off again. But this time there was not any action movie, only a wonderful and noicy show.

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Yew Year's fireworks

These days many people have a tradition of lighting (setting off) fireworks on the New Year's holiday. My neighbours like to do it as well. Some of them set fireworks off before the midnight and others do it after the midnight, so we have several hours of a pyrotechnic show. We don't close our windows with curtains in order to not miss the next salute.
I was waiting for this New Year's night with a special thrill. Why? I'll tell you.
Look at the picture below. That's a sight from my window. The last New Year's night, some company decided to set off a fireworks at the place I've marked with a red circle on the picture. One guy fired it and ran to the rest of the company. He did not make sure that a box was set up steady. After the first shot, the box rolled onto its side, so all the other shots didn't go straight up in the air but into the house on the left side of the picture.
It looked like a rocket attack. Those little rockets fell into walls and windows. Some of them ricocheted right into cars parked like on the photo. One of the rockets struck one car and ricocheted to another and back to the first car.
That was just like in a movie! I would not be surprised if Bruce Willis had suddenly come up and saved all of us))) Fortunately, no one got harmed. The rockets did not get inside throw opened windows and did not set the cars on fire.
Me and my girlfriend exclaimed "What bastards!" and looked at the place where that company was standing. But there was nobody by that time.
This year my neighbours set fireworks off again. But this time there was not any action movie, only a wonderful and noisy show.

 

[Good story, well told.]

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A-a-a, I think that I have have been there, I would have been hidden in the basement. :)

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