Fireworks

[Mule]

well as I'm a spiteful git I'm going to see if i can get a load of really loud fireworks on the cheap and let them off from about 4 till 8 in the morning..

I work nights I had to go to work and drive for 7 hours while practically doped up on Tesco's cheap red bull and double the recommended daily dose of pro-plus just to stay consicious... because people decided the wanted to let off explosives during my bedtime

I enjoy fireworks (well mostly blowing stuff up with them!) and shows have better displays and they're generally in remote locations so people are safer and can have a better time..

Just my 2p.. and lets face it, it doesnt count for jack as ill be saying the same thing 12 months from now..

Bah Humbug

[madhaggis]

I say Ban em! For the past 2 weeks they have been setting them off! Scares the logger out of my dog. Then you see dafties running about with rockets lit in there hands and that. Organised events I have no problem with, either on the 5th or first available day after that.

Bob

[Martin]

Duking things

[C2K]

It was like Beirut in Preston all weekend with them bloody things going off left right and centre.

Keeps the Chinese economy healthy.

[Leo]

Duking things

You going to bring this thread up every year?!

Looks like you missed it last year tho

[Martin]

Duking things

You going to bring this thread up every year?!

Looks like you missed it last year tho

Yes I can't believe I missed it last year. What on earth was I doing? Oh yes, blowing up my own car on n20

[richard moss]

On a value for money basis, I would go for an organised display (we did and ot great value for £1.50 per head!).

However, banning them would be another example of nanny state-ism.

The human race will come a cropper if all responsibility is taken away from people.

[richard moss]

I say Ban em! For the past 2 weeks they have been setting them off! Scares the logger out of my dog. Then you see dafties running about with rockets lit in there hands and that. Organised events I have no problem with, either on the 5th or first available day after that.

Bob

I's not just Nov 5th, though. Don't forget Diwali and the end of Ramadan - where fireworks are a traditional means of celebrating.

[sysdump]

Wondered if this thread would pop up. Fancy missing it last year though Martin!

Nothing major happened this year, apart from fckwit neighbour letting them off at all hours. Lets see how he likes it at 10.45pm Christmas Eve!

Chris

[dave_d]

worse thing about fireworks, is the sounds at the wrong time!!

The other day I was helping a neighbour out with his instal as the amp wasnt working as there was a dodgey connection, so i helped him out and jsut as I was going through the list of "what could be wrong" I touched the switch on wire onto the permanent feed to see if it powers up, as I did it a big bang went off and I sh*t myself lol!!!

But another bit that confuses me, why do kids set them off during the day when you cant see them?

[Ross9]

to hear the bang most likely.

I don't think they should be banned, though measures to stop people beign so stupid and irresponsible with them are needed, banning stuff everytime someone does something stupid with it is the wrong approach IMO.

Should alcohol be banned because people get pissed and fight, vandalise, breach the peace etc, or should the offenders be reprimanded? etc

Personally I like letting them off myself, mate of mine always has loads and puts on a wee display for his nephews etc, lot of family come over and for the last few years I've been giving him a hand with it, purely because I childishly enjoy getting the biggest ones I can find and making as much noise as possible. This display normally takes place on the weekend closest to the 5th, this year it was on the 5th on Sunday night, between 7:30 and 9pm, and we moved from the house to an open bit of grass behind an industrial estate to do it. I enjoyed this much more than I would standing in a massive crowd at a proper display (the HUGE strathclyde park display is 5 mins away and we could hear it going on from where we were) so why should we be stopped from doing this because some people can't use them responsibly.

Ross

[Martin]

I say Ban em! For the past 2 weeks they have been setting them off! Scares the logger out of my dog. Then you see dafties running about with rockets lit in there hands and that. Organised events I have no problem with, either on the 5th or first available day after that.

Bob

I's not just Nov 5th, though. Don't forget Diwali and the end of Ramadan - where fireworks are a traditional means of celebrating.

Having had a Girlfriend who lived in a highly Asian populated area in Cardiff whilst at University, this is another reason they should be banned. Kid's setting them off in peoples letter boxes from September through to October. Great. Then you have the chavs doing the same thing late October to about the middle of November.

Oh, then you have the people who stash their fireworks for New Years. That is a new thing only done for the past 10 years as far as I recall. When I was a kid all those years ago, nobody had fireworks at New Years bar the organised displays?

One assumes somewhere is selling fireworks for new years, or some nutsacks are stashing them in their broom cupboard between Guy Fawkes and New Year in their cardboard boxes. Huh, thats safe. Surely fireworks should be kept in Tin Boxes like Ammunition and Gunpowder. Car airbags come in Tin Boxes from the manufacturer...

Sorry I am having a Sheaf moment, I'll get my blood pressure checked.

[xr4x4]

stores are only allowed to sell them nov5 and xmas/newyear.

[Sheaf]

Sorry I am having a Sheaf moment, I'll get my blood pressure checked.

LOL


I must admit I'm tiring of having wizz bange flash going on out the window. I've never really seen the attraction of fireworks, it all seems slightly, well unnecessarily noisey and childish. Would be more exciting if we got to line up chavs and fire them at them... or just blow sh1t up. Flashes in the sky doesn't really float my boat, which is odd as I usually like setting fire to stuff

[Punx0r]

I don't think they should be banned, though measures to stop people beign so stupid and irresponsible with them are needed, banning stuff everytime someone does something stupid with it is the wrong approach IMO.

Like with most things there are plenty of laws already in place to deal with people who missuse fireworks. The problem is that it's a lot easier to blame legitimate users, shop owners, manufacturers etc.

The new laws seems to have had some effect round here. Almost all the fireworks went off on the weekend just gone. With only a handful being let off at obviously inappropriate times.

My cat doesn't like the loud explosions so she stayed in sat/sun and was quite happy. The papers are always full of mad bints crying about how their dogs logger themselves for 4 weeks around the 5th Nov. Those people obviously need to beat some sense into their pets so they aren't so scared!