Happy 4th everyone. I hope this is the place to put this.
Location: Dandridge, Tennessee, USA
Me and my family regularly go to visit my grandmother in her place in Tennessee over 4th of July weekend. Her neighbors were shooting off fireworks, presumably drinking and smoking, and me and my grandmother decided to go down to her dock to watch the fireworks. Shortly after, my father joined us. While we were watching the fireworks, the mortar they were using to fire them fell over, and shot fireworks directly at her house. One of them grazed me, which didn’t cause any lasting damage however hurt like hell for a moment and scared the daylights out of me. Another one lit a pile of brush under one of her trees on fire. Me and my father luckily noticed it and were able to put it out before anything worse happened. If it wasn’t for the fact that we skipped going to the celebration by the local church, her house and some of the surrounding area would have likely burned down. The neighbors did not check on where the fireworks went, did not care about any potential results, and brushed us off in a drunken and high haze. These people are going to not learn any lesson and do the same thing next year, if we aren’t as lucky something much worse than minor burns and a small brush catching ablaze could happen. Is there anything I can do to provide any sort of karmic retaliation through legal means or do I just need to drop it and calm down?
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I mean, you could call the cops on them. They’d send someone over to talk to them probably.
You can contact the police and see their take. The neighbors aren’t the only ones who were idiots with fireworks today.
If the majority of damages is it could have.. then calm down and drop it. If there’s actual damages needed to repair grandma can request they pay for it.