Dear Editor,
In the Halloween evening, me and several friends were taking our kids trick-or-treating along Jack Bell Drive in Richmond.
At around 7:30 p.m, there was a group of teenagers setting off fireworks on the street.
Instead of shooting those fireworks skyward, they were shooting at each other.
The explosions and the bright lights scared our kids, and some of them started crying.
The gang then decided to follow us to the intersection of Jack Bell and Harrison, and one of my friends even heard them saying “follow the kids.”
Feeling threatened, she called the police and this was when the gang scattered away.
The police did not come after all because, according to them, this was not an emergency and we needed to call the non-emergency number.
Frustrated, all of us decided to go home and what was supposed to be a fun night turned out to be a scary and unpleasant evening because of a group of irresponsible teenagers.
I think the city and/or the police should really enforce the regulation of fireworks, and don’t treat it as an non-emergency incident because nobody got hurt or killed — yet.
It was very fortunate that this time nobody was injured by this kind of reckless behaviour.
Yu Yin Lau
Richmond
