>trying to socialize >roommate invites me to go to his friend's house for fireworks >go >having a good time >they even have me light up the fireworks >light up a mortar and it explodes >WEE WOO WEE WOO >cop car pulls up >tells everyone to freeze >user, did you just light that mortar? >y..yes, but the fireworks aren't mine >cop asks everyone else who the fireworks belong to >they're user's! all of them! >cop writes me a citation >if I don't pay within 20 days the fine doubles
What the fuck do I do? That's my rent money and no one else at the party is willing to pay up. Can I sue them?
How do you posses dangerous fireworks if they exploded into a million pieces in thin air? :^)
Henry Scott
>want to light up fireworks >but they're illegal >what to do? >lol, just invite your sperg roommate to light the fireworks in case we get caught
Your roommate set you up as the fall guy from the get go
Brayden Clark
Go to the police station and see if you can't make payments instead.
Carter Myers
Do a mass shooting on them.
Dylan Watson
>City of Downey
At least you're living in the right place, retard
Nolan Ward
Looks like you would have been better off lighting them all quickly when the cops showed up; then you wouldn't have been in possession of them anymore.
Adam Morgan
Should've denied it user. Why would you tell them you lit it off?
Owen Scott
shove a firework inside your roomate's ass
Grayson Young
You were used you fucking idiot. They invited you along solely as a contingency just in case the cops showed up. You were nothing but a scapegoat.
Blake Turner
I'm literally holding a lighter by a pile of fireworks. I don't think I could have talked my way out of it
John White
So first of all, google returns "airsoft gun" when searching your pic. So that's interesting.
But second of all, it is incredible that a cop was close enough to you that he could swoop in that fast. Can you explain that?
Second of all, you also are able to write the judge or contact the court or something to discuss the ticket. You should easily (facebook messages/friends, phone records, diary or whatever, Printout of online history showing you online for 12 hours a day, etc,) be able to prove that you don't know any of them well enough to have brought and shot illegal fireworkds off at, or even to have gone over to partied with without your roomate.
Gavin Powell
No, my roommate is pretty cool. He wouldn't do that to me
Connor Morales
contact landlord and see if you can get an extension. explain your debacle as vaguely as possible. pay off this shit but keep all the receipts. Decide whether you want to pull their asses into small claims court if they aren't going to pool some money together to pay it. You have some really shit friends by the way. I agree with the user who said they used you as a fall guy.
This must be another user trolling, cause if it's OP, I hope you somehow get criminal charges too you 10 IQ fuck.
Xavier Bailey
Can't you tell the court that? Are you sure they wouldn't be able to make a payment plan for you? Also 2000! That's ridiculous! Get a lawyer thats the only option you have.
Levi Reed
This. Print all your chat out, use it as some form of evidence that you did not own those fireworks.
Zachary Evans
>if you don't think everyone is trying to fuck you over, you must be a troll!
Kill yourself you cynical fuck
Ryder Green
Also possession of dangerous fireworks is totally subjective. Get a lawyer.
Asher Rogers
>trying to socialize that moment, you know, you fucked up
Ryder Thompson
ayyyyyy heyyyoooooohhhh!!!! got eeeem
Caleb Martin
Good goy. Pay a lawyer $5000 to get you off a $2000 fine
Christian Thomas
Were you the only one lighting the fireworks? If so then he fucked you over. Seriously he won't help out?
Hunter Rodriguez
>trying to fuck you over Ok, maybe not. >willing to throw you under the bus to save their ass Of course you fucking sheltered retard.
Elijah Cruz
small claims lawyers don't cost that much. $800 can get you a decent one. You're not trying to hire Johnnie Cochran.
Connor Bennett
Oh yeah you were probably fucked then. Maybe if you smoked cigarettes you could've used that as an excuse but they'd still probably convict you without concrete evidence like a recording or proof you'd bought them.
Ayden Long
Retard. You always get a lawyer whenever you go to court I'd get one when talking to the police. Chances are it'll only cost a few hundred dollars and it might save him thousands.
Alexander Howard
A girl at the party was going to light them but she got scared and asked me to do it so I couldn't turn her down and look like a beta. But my roommate said he'd spot me some of the money
Sebastian Kelly
>$2000 dollars for lighting a fucking firework OP has a killdozer in his future.
Jayden Parker
Yeah, also this. If you go into court with most first time anythings you can get at least 60% taken off if you're not a dickhead.
I'd wager that it's a better life than an optimist.
I'd bet money it's a categorization based on ounces as "dangerous" is a term used to describe other things in law with the same metric.
Officially declaring to no bait line here boys, sorry everyone below.
Logan Sullivan
Brazil here. I thought America was the land of the free. Why can't you use fireworks?
Jaxson Wright
$2000 for launching a mortar that could have started multiple fires and even hurt people. Have you ever shot a mortar off before?
Isaac Barnes
Well you got an in with the girl at least. Depending how stupid the others guys you can always blackmail them into giving some money. Just make up that you have evidence on them.
Hunter Perry
> Can I sue them?
Lmao
Fucking Amerilards.
Charles Kelly
Uhhh, yeah. You are seriously over exaggerating the danger of them unless you're an absolute retard.
Carter Flores
If they're so worried about fires why don't they ban gasoline, matches, cigarettes, and everything else that's flammable?
Jace Jones
Meh, being able to shoot mortars is the cost of freedom. I see average slobs shoot them off quite often at the 4th.
There will always be the idiot that lights the tube on top of his head and gets a skull fracture, or lighting a bare fucking shell - but Darwin looks to those fools.
Carson Cooper
Because those arn't responsible for as many/they weren't targeted for whatever reason/no one cared about them, etc. etc. etc. pretty fucking stupid question, bud.
Connor Jones
But why were you the only one lighting them? Shouldn't they want to take turns or something?
Mason Kelly
Land of the free, home of the brave. Hope your neetbux will cover your fine, burgerfriend.
Colton Lewis
I bet the judge would even believe him if he dressed nice and told him that the other guys through him in front of the bus. Unless he gets a real hard ass.
Adam Smith
>Shooting a mortar in a residential area >Not retarded
Because you aren't shooting those up into the air and letting them fall all over the place.
If you live under the rule of a state you do not have freedom.
>neetbux Too bad about it being a fine, or else OP could probably get some kind of legal aid to fight it if a qualified neetbuck recipient. Maybe wait until they put a warrant out, then get pro bono quash.
Ian Morris
Report your so-called friends to the police for perjury.
Ryder Roberts
OP's mistake was trusting normalfaggots. Only trust nerds. Even liberal memetic Redditors are better than normalfags.
Funny story, > 2 buddies and me, car guy. >Drive across state line to pick up the "good stuff". > bring it back to a friends house > big back porch overlooking forest > Gonna wait till dark to light them all but one wouldn't hurt > open pack >place in tube > light, >lean away >BOOM >We all look up to watch it >I am the first to hear that the hissing has not stopped after the boom >Look down >Tray of 12 additional mortars now smoking >Shout something, I do not remember what >Time literally slowed down > Saw friend on the right react immediately after and start to move >Saw friend on the left hesitate for a moment too long >I am around the near corner first, > Faaaa- > Right friend just manages to skirt corner >-BO > Left friend is pelted with all manner of detribis from the table and exploding shells but makes it around the corner >-OOOMMM >pretty good light show if I'm being honest. Didn't cause a ton of damage to any of the siding or floor either, surprisingly. And it was one of those black mesh cast iron tables, so all good! > both friends were fine, one was a tiny bit bloody from the shrapnel and all were a bit deaf, but otherwise great.
Good times.
James Morales
At least you can throw a helluva Jap "peace sign" after the mortar blows up.
You should've ran you fucking dumbass. Never talk to police.
Levi Morris
Also consider going to the bank/credit card company so that they can follow the money trail. If you don't have any purchases from "Fireworks Co." or have recently withdrawn enough money to be able to cover the cost of the fireworks in cash, how in the hell could you end up with a pile of fireworks?
Ex. Total cost of fireworks: $500 No withdraws around $500 (either individually or cumulatively within a reasonable amount of time) or payments of relative size to anywhere that sells fireworks = not plausible that you bought them.