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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • When I grew up I used to love fireworks at new years here in the Netherlands. However, now that I’m older and more importantly, no longer live in the same neighborhood, I’ve grown a big dislike of them.

    A big part of this is the vandalism and carelessness that people have. I literally have to move my car elsewhere to prevent it from potentially getting set on fire by some of our neighbors, who get super drunk and then set off fireworks and don’t take care of the leftovers, which often catch fire. They also moved fireworks to a patch of shrubs and trees before and if it wasn’t for me calling the cops and the weather being somewhat wet they could’ve set a whole area on fire. It’s absolutely ridiculous. Fortunately, there seems to be more and more support for a ban here. The only problem is that it’ll be very hard to uphold it after such a long tradition of having fireworks. They already banned some of the heavier stuff before and it never worked, people still had it. Hopefully it’ll be different this time.