A week after Fourth of July celebrations, PetaPixel reported that multiple California police departments had used drones to surveil and spot people illegally shooting off fireworks. Promised fines have been rolling out since, including a new $300,000 one levied against an Orange County homeowner who claims they were not even home on July 4.
“I wasn’t even home,” says a Stanton, California homeowner who was fined $300,00 last week by Stanton police, FOX 11 Los Angeles reports. City officials claim they recorded approximately 300 illegal fireworks explosions at the fined man’s home on July 4, 2025. The homeowner says the city’s video doesn’t “prove anything.”…