Boredom sound waves police The US fireworks mystery and its many theories
- 4 years ago
Boredom sound waves police The US fireworks mystery and its many theories
The summer has arrived with a bang, literally, across the country this year as thousands of complaints about fireworks have been called in, from Ohio, to Aurora, to California. In Boston, complaints went up 64-fold compared to last year, meanwhile in New York, 12,582 calls have been to the 311 line regarding illegal fireworks since 1st June this year, in comparison to just 17 for the same period last year, according to the city’s open data source. New Yorkers wanted to get their frustrations across to Mayor Bill de Blasio last night, and drove to his residence in Manhattan in protest. Despite living in “the city that never sleeps”, they honked their horns into the early hours outside Gracie Mansion chanting, “We don’t sleep, you don’t sleep.”On top of the ongoing noise disturbance, it is likely adding more anxiety to an already very anxious moment due to a pandemic and ongoing protests against police brutality. Add that to the fact that that no one seems to know what the reason for the increase in nightly explosions is and, of course, theories have bubbled up across the internet, trying to nail the reason for the surge. Here are a few. Some have surmised that fireworks have not increased, it’s just that people are hearing them more
The summer has arrived with a bang, literally, across the country this year as thousands of complaints about fireworks have been called in, from Ohio, to Aurora, to California. In Boston, complaints went up 64-fold compared to last year, meanwhile in New York, 12,582 calls have been to the 311 line regarding illegal fireworks since 1st June this year, in comparison to just 17 for the same period last year, according to the city’s open data source. New Yorkers wanted to get their frustrations across to Mayor Bill de Blasio last night, and drove to his residence in Manhattan in protest. Despite living in “the city that never sleeps”, they honked their horns into the early hours outside Gracie Mansion chanting, “We don’t sleep, you don’t sleep.”On top of the ongoing noise disturbance, it is likely adding more anxiety to an already very anxious moment due to a pandemic and ongoing protests against police brutality. Add that to the fact that that no one seems to know what the reason for the increase in nightly explosions is and, of course, theories have bubbled up across the internet, trying to nail the reason for the surge. Here are a few. Some have surmised that fireworks have not increased, it’s just that people are hearing them more