You can't set your expectations too low for weekend warriors who are camping on public lands. (And crowded public lands at that!) At the moment the yahoos a couple hundred yards away from me are shooting off fireworks at dusk.
I believe that fireworks (even sparklers) are illegal on public lands, regardless of the time of year. You should never tell yahoos that you are thinking of calling the authorities -- it could be dangerous.
Besides, would it do any good to call authorities right now? Perhaps the local sheriff would come out, even though the land is federal. I don't know what the situation is with federal law enforcement personnel, right now.
And if they weren't shooting off fireworks they would be (legally) blasting away at tin cans with military-grade firearms, or blasting away with a yellow Chinese generator, or thumpah thumpah music from outdoor 300 watt speakers, or blasting around other people's camp with a UTV or dune buggy...or farting, scratching at their armpits or crotch, or rutting in the bushes...
At any rate, it is an opportunity to reflect on how mindless and juvenile the public is, and how over-rated democracy is as a system of government. Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than a flock of silly geese electing the border collie whose job it is to chase the geese around the barnyard?
Once again I endorse mildly-repressive authoritarianism as the only thing that makes any sense.
I believe that fireworks (even sparklers) are illegal on public lands, regardless of the time of year. You should never tell yahoos that you are thinking of calling the authorities -- it could be dangerous.
Besides, would it do any good to call authorities right now? Perhaps the local sheriff would come out, even though the land is federal. I don't know what the situation is with federal law enforcement personnel, right now.
And if they weren't shooting off fireworks they would be (legally) blasting away at tin cans with military-grade firearms, or blasting away with a yellow Chinese generator, or thumpah thumpah music from outdoor 300 watt speakers, or blasting around other people's camp with a UTV or dune buggy...or farting, scratching at their armpits or crotch, or rutting in the bushes...
At any rate, it is an opportunity to reflect on how mindless and juvenile the public is, and how over-rated democracy is as a system of government. Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than a flock of silly geese electing the border collie whose job it is to chase the geese around the barnyard?
Once again I endorse mildly-repressive authoritarianism as the only thing that makes any sense.
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That is, as long as I get to be the dictator and not you. :-)