I'll be listening like I always do, but things are no where near as crazy on New Years as they used to be around here. This city (Phoenix) used to turn into Beirut every December 31st with all the gunshots going off from about 10pm to 2am or later. Last year I think I heard maybe 10 shots all night long and the fire channels were relatively quiet other than the usual diffculty breathing calls and other routine calls that you hear constantly out here. Certainly not the nonstop barrage of semi and fully automatic gunfire (including tracers that I saw streaking thru the sky one year - yikes) that I used to have to endure all around me.
I think (and hope) people have finally figured out that bullets fired up into the sky don't just keep going on forever and that it's a bad idea to drive around drunk off your *** and crash into people's houses and what not. Either that or most of the jackasses that were doing that have been deported out of here finally (ahem - just an observation, no offense intended folks). Either way I make it a point to stay off the roads on New Year's Eve and ring in the new year by just staying home making Margaritas and listening to the scanner. Safer, cheaper and for me at least, much more fun.
-AZ
