I live in a suburb of a large city and the other night was trying to have a sensitive chat after a very traumatic event with an elderly relative on the phone. A few minutes into the conversation we were interrupted by what I thought was a gun shot, it was so loud. This was followed by a further four, then I realised it was fireworks. Extremely loud, so loud I had to stop my conversation. This went on for around 25 minutes at which point I went out to investigate.
I noticed it was a neighbours several doors away in my close and went round to complain (on a work night, late evening I thought it ridiculous).
I saw it was some sort of party and told them it was disturbing everyone locally (several other neighbours were outside, bewildered), only to be aggressively shouted at by a man-child who put his face in mine "do you know what we are celebrating?? We are celebrating the death of a child".
Well no actually, I didn't know, and to be honest I think there are far more appropriate and intelligent ways to pay tribute to someone who has sadly lost their life rather than disturb an entire neighbourhood for an extended length of time. Go to a field somewhere or an open park by all means if you have to let off these wretched things that petrify animals, but not in a built-up area. The fireworks continued for around just under an hour in all.
I'm not sorry and I still think it's stupid and selfish. Am I being unreasonable to think this is anti-social, not matter what the celebration and to expect people to be more considerate, also that it's slightly weird to celebrate a death with fireworks?