How Unpatriotic

I love where I live. It is a nice cultural mix of people, and we all get along very nicely, by leaving each other to our own devices. The 4th of July is no exception. We all have BBQs and light fireworks. We always have the safe and sane kind...as I do not have time to go to Mexico or Nevada to buy the alternative. OK, yeah I was in Vegas...but I was not thinking far enough ahead.

So last night, we are sitting in the driveway, lighting off our modest little fountains of sparks, while our neighbors were shooting off bottle rockets, hundred-shot shooters and giant mortars. Suddenly, an unmarked cop car, screeches to a halt in front of the house. The silly officers inside, pull up so close, the car is showered with the sparks from the current cardboard tube of black powder. They let us know that they are out giving $1,000.00 tickets to people who do fireworks in the city. We, my sons and I, nicely tell them that we have been doing this for years, and not too worry, we will clean up our mess. Every year a nice cop pops by and reminds us to clean up our mess. But these two overly exuberant officers, reiterate, that they go out each year and write tickets to people that are illegally shooting off fireworks. OK, so fireworks are illegal here, but no cop has EVER been such a dick about it as these two. So, sadly, we acquiesced to the "man", let them leave and then continued with our show in the backyard. Yes, absolute power corrupts absolutely, but it has also been said that even those with just a little power, lord it over others in very corrupt ways. All I can say is that the term "pig" is not a misnomer!