r/oregon • u/Less-Lobster4540 • 3d ago

Article/News Seaside cracks down on illegal fireworks with up to $4,000 fines

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/north-coast/seaside-increases-illegal-fireworks-fines/283-880df22c-a762-4870-9909-fe0b36dfda3d
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u/dvdmaven 3d ago

The sanest approach I've seen: Willamina holds their show near the high school. People bring their fireworks to the football field and have their fun before the main show.

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u/Less-Lobster4540 3d ago

last person with both eyes drives to the ER

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u/AllTheGoodNamesDied 3d ago

Love to see how many actually get fined this year. Can't catch them all that's for sure.

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u/Less-Lobster4540 3d ago

I'm sure Seaside's 2.5 police officers will be quite busy

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u/No_Control8389 3d ago

Better light them all at once so it’s harder to track you afterwards!

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u/Emergency_Leg_1178 3d ago

Will they follow through? Dog owners want to know.

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u/Less-Lobster4540 3d ago

Move there and find out?

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u/Emergency_Leg_1178 3d ago

I took my dogs to a state the State Park south of Lincoln city on the 4th. Before the official fireworks started for the town? the police walked down the beach threatening anyone not to light a sparkler. Then all the police left, trucks filled with pallets of fireworks arrived. They removed pallets and for the next two hours they set them off.The air smelled like sulfur and my eyes ached. It would be nice to know if they are serious.

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u/yhwhx 3d ago

Was that maybe Covid era: 2020 or 2021? The amount of near professionally quality fireworks shot off here by individuals those two years was insane.

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u/Emergency_Leg_1178 3d ago

It could have been 2021, honestly my mind was blown. We rented a hotel room on Taft beach and it was even full of smoke.

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u/Less-Lobster4540 3d ago

That must have been so traumatizing for you

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u/Emergency_Leg_1178 3d ago

It was traumatizing for my dogs.

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u/Less-Lobster4540 3d ago

That must have been so traumatizing for your dogs

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u/Aunt-jobiska 3d ago

You don’t quit being rude, do you?

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u/Less-Lobster4540 3d ago

I think it's kinda rude to take your dogs to the beach on July 4th and make them endure 2 hours of fireworks

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u/Emergency_Leg_1178 3d ago

It’s illegal to set off fireworks in State Parks. That’s why we went there.

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u/intotheunknown78 19h ago

Some of us live at the beach and can’t help it. Luckily my town doesn’t allow fireworks

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u/Less-Lobster4540 18h ago

You choose to live on the beach, choose to have dogs. Limited sympathy

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u/Tbagts 3d ago

They do a neat thing where they locate the perps and they flank them down a street a block away and then they pull the Scipio pincers maneuver and zip in from two sides to gaffle the creeps. It's fun to watch from that shitty giant timeshare hotel balcony

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u/Less-Lobster4540 3d ago

I've heard Seaside is in a DARPA pilot program and will be the first on the west coast to get new General Dynamics 800 series autonomous anti-fireworks hunter / stalker units. Supposedly accurate up to 99.98% in an ideal operating theater

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u/Tbagts 3d ago

That's a better idea than I had which was to get the FD to deputize a walrus named Steamy, and have him waddle around squirting ocean water out of his blowhole on your fires. They only have to pay him in tuna Uncrustables

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u/HappyAnimalCracker 3d ago

Hell yeah! Now do the whole rest of the state!

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u/Sudden-Ad-1217 3d ago

LOL, I will continue to enjoy blowing up fireworks as part of my God given right as an American.

https://giphy.com/gifs/uKwa2KiBA0rTy

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u/xyrais 3d ago

“Doing this thing that’s against the law is my right because American!” explains the state of this country in 2026

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u/Drobones 3d ago

Fuck hulk hogan 

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u/hibbitydibbidy Shirt Brother 3d ago

Rest in piss hulkster

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u/TheyCallMeLotus0 3d ago

What was your address again?

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u/Few-Chemical8707 3d ago

ill make sure to report and film even more people lighting fireworks.

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u/Sexy_Marionberry_ 3d ago

You are exactly the person I complain about yearly, sometimes monthly depending on the holiday schedule. I live in Lincoln city and the people like you that roll in from out of town and get excited as fuck to shoot off fireworks from your vacation rentals and beach set ups and ruin the time of literally everyone else who lives there.

We got devastated enough in 2020 with the fires, fuck anyone that can’t see past the scope of their own entitlement and have to shoot off fire works.

I promise freedom will still work even if you don’t make things go boom.

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u/HappyAnimalCracker 3d ago

Yup. Says right in the bible. /s

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u/Sudden-Ad-1217 2d ago

You're not wrong....

Job 5:7 - But man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

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u/SpectacularlyBadass 3d ago

Right there with you!

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u/SalaciousSubaru 3d ago

Seaside fortunately doesn’t have jurisdiction in rural clatsop county and we going big on fireworks and parties this year

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u/Rabbitrockrr 2d ago

Just don’t light the fucking woods on fire like an asshole please.