to think fireworks should be banned...

[wannaBe]

... apart from organized, licenced displays.

Still a week t go before november 5th and already it's like world war 3 round here. Ds doesn't like the bangs, my cats are too scared to go out and generally they're just a mennace.

Maybe if people had one night of it I might feel differently but really this setting off fireworks for weeks before and after the event is just rediculous.

And maybe if they were banned we wouldn't have the mamings and injuries and firework related crimes either...

[Hekate]

I agree

[hercules1]

Completely agree.

[Heated]

I can tolerate them on Nov 5th but not for 6 weeks.

Totally agree.

[NomDeBroomstick]

I agree wholeheartedly.

[WinkyWinkola]

My two DCs have been woken up three times so far by all the banging tonight. I swear fireworks have got louder over the years.

November the 5th - fireworks galore is fine.

[Beelliesebub]

I agree 100%....
Around this time of year I get so fed up with the constant noise of blardy fireworks and I'm terrified one of my ds's are going to get hurt because although they've been taught not to pratt about with dangerous things it doesn't stop the other loons does it? Then to top it all my dobermans scared stiff of the flamin thing's.....
You try wearing a doberman on your head!

[paolosgirl]

Agree agree agree. Notice that some Govt review has also agreed that the change to legislation a couple of years back has not been successful or effective. Perhaps we might see more changes coming into force...

[professorplum]

I would like to see a ban/restriction on the noisy ones but not the little roman candle types.

[madamez]

Yes, YABU. Get a life. There's already way too much wussiness and bleating that people should leave everything to the 'experts' as it is.

[SeaShells]

Really annoying, kids have been setting them off randomly round here for a couple of weeks now. I don't understand where they get them from, who are the idiots who buy them for kids??? Where are the safety adverts and messages nowadays, haven't seen any this year! I know as a kid I wouldn't have dreamed of touching fireworks. I don't mind families being able to set them off in their gardens on 5th nov, we have done this many years when the DCs have been too young to take to big displays. It's just the nuisance idiots setting them off for absolutely no reason, they're pretty expensive too, haven't kids got better things to spend their pocket money on???

[Hekate]

Got to disagree with you there Madamez. Folks letting off fireworks left, right and centre for 3 bloody months is a total pain in the arse and should be stopped.

[paolosgirl]

Ignore last one - YANBU.

Yawn.....

[paolosgirl]

Not last one - I meant Madamez.

[WeeWitchyWilkie]

Agree - one night a year (and maybe New Year) is plenty. It is annoying when you have young children but maybe I will feel different in a few years

[anchovies]

Completely agree and don't understand why it hasn't happened already

[flack]

Another vote in favour - yanbu.

[iwouldgoouttonight]

I completely agree. I was having one of my 'if I was in charge of the world...' moments the other day and ranting about how I'd ban fireworks. They're bloody annoying, dangerous and scare my cat!!

[throckenholt]

my dog is pertrified by fireworks - literally runs round the house shaking trying to find somewhere to hide.

I think they should be only for display purposes and then only for very special occasions - eg not for weddings and parties.

[TheDullWitch]

Oh for god's sake, let s ban everything! More wussy PCness gone mad.

[flack]

They're dangerous, remember that 3yo girl who got killed by a firework? Her parents became famous for trying to use IVF to specifically get another girl, they could only conceive via IVF and had 4 boys already.

Fireworks are illegal to sell in some countries... legal sale but only licensed use, just seems so hugely sensible to me. You have to have a license to sell raffle tickets, for heaven's sake, or to hold a dance open to the public, and how dangerous/much of a nuisance are those things compared to fireworks?!

[wannaBe]

I wonder if in 3/400 years people will be celebrating the failed bombings on 21/7? or 7/7? or 911 in the same way we celebrate guy fawkes? That's what we're celebrating after all - a failed act of terrorism.

[olala]

totally agree with the OP - apart from licensed displays, they should be banned. I have called the police 3 times over fireworks in the last couple of years - once when one was thrown at me whilst I was carrying dd, aged 2 months, into a hospital. Yes really. And another couple of times when I saw our local shops selling them to people who honestly looked about 12.
I don't care if they are fun to let off in your garden, the risks outweigh the benefits for me.
bah humbug (the bonfire night version!)

[madamez]

Flack, far more kids are killed by cars but the one thing that sends mundanes beserk is any suggestion that private car ownership should be far more strictly controlled.

And no matter how much of an obedient passive good little mundane you are, content to do nothing but sit in front of your television every night and leave everything up to 'those who know better', shit will still happend and eventually you will still die.

[bogie]

I agree. I love watching the licenced displays were having a posh one to music this year, but i'm sick of all the kids round here setting them off.