Motherfucking fireworks

Are they still going on each night?

They stopped here the day after 5th November.

Using your argument (which I don't agree with); dogs scare and upset people why shouldn't they be banned? They shouldn't of course.

Apologies for being late to the discussion here,
but how'd you like to have fireworks every night?

EVERY.
SINGLE.
NIGHT!!!

Not just neighbors; put on by the city.
Approx 5 min each night at 10 pm.
A single shot at 9:50 then 5 min of barrage.
It's been going on for decades now.
(It's a "tourist town".)

Fireworks scare and upset people. Why shouldn't they be banned?

What makes you the most important person in your community?

It’s absolutely wetting it down outside here, the fireworks are in full flow.

Im more surprised that people have nights without fireworks as they are every day, full daylight or after nightfall, every day/night here. There is a bit of a lull around Feb-May admittedly but every night through summer, autumn, winter, and frequently during the day/well after 11pm.

Whether the neighbours, babies, pets or wildlife like it, or not. (NB I have never bought fireworks myself, have had babies and pets, but they are a daily fact of life and nothing I can do will change it!)

Has it brought the community together virtually every night since 30/10? At 11pm? Bullshit. Sorry but for me that shows the opposite of community.

A big community display for one night would brilliantly bring the community together. I fail to see how this applies to dickheads randomly setting off bangers they bought in The Range at random.

I don't want them banned. I want more control over them.

They should not be allowed in a built up area, where gardens back onto each other. Someone in my area had one come into her house that was let off in the garden behind.

Oh and don't tell me how to deal with my cat. He's a very happy cat just not with loud noises, cats have super sensitive hearing.

Diwali? @Sandrine1982

Cats don't top Diwali 🎆🎇

Fireworks night is a longstanding tradition. It’s fun and brings the community together. Why should we ban it?

What’s not acceptable is not desensitising your animals. I used to have a very nervous cat, she was scared of her own shadow, but we made sure that she wasn’t scared of fireworks. You’re never going to get them banned, so you should work on making sure your animal is okay.

I've let my cat out to go for a wee when its been lovely and peaceful, so stupidly thought it was safe, and 4 nights in a row I've had to go and look for him when some selfish moron is having a display in their garden (wouldn't mind but they're not small fireworks) so I do the decent owner thing and try and get him in.

When I've found him, he's cowering under cars, petrified, so scared he won't leave the so called safety of under a car, and he runs from me, I then have to coax him back in.

It's not acceptable.

This has actually been reported in quite a few papers:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23182350.bradford-residents-claim-firework-use-linked-drug-crimes/&ved=2ahUKEwjChICG-eiQAxV2QEEAHcLxOmMQFnoECE8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw3I4poj4K7CvgumkgK0g5Eu

Possible...but do you have any proof?

Low noise fireworks are available, I wish people would use those.

My grandfather came here after WW2 as part of the Polish army. He passed when I was a toddler, but according to my gran, he went to hide when he first heard fireworks as he assumed it was bombs. I don't know if he reacted badly after that, or if it was just the unexpectedness that upset him.

Goggling it seems lots of vets hate unexpected noise of any kind more than planned fireworks per se. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it though, if I were you. It clearly IS a problem for some.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/04/health/fireworks-military-vets-trauma-wellness

Dear god. Of all the witless whining cant we get about fireworks every year, this co-opting of people who experience PTSD and in particular PTSD from war is one of the most grating. PTSD is a complex and long lasting manifestation of unprocessed trauma that when left untreated seeps into every aspect of daily life where the slightest physical apprehension eg hint of smell, change in light pattern or bodily sensation can provoke a trauma response. It does not generally present as cowering under the table when a firework is lit. Most people with PTSD aren't bothered by fireworks at all. They can be, conversely, very bothered indeed by fools professing to speak for them when those fools understand nothing about the condition and are in fact using them for a separate, unrelated agenda.

Refugees from war-torn countries must be terrified by the fireworks going off. Why can't they be banned? Surely the government doesn't make that much in tax from them?

It's part of the cult of victimhood imo - people present as victims in order that their views are amplified.

They were going off last fucking night where I live. Remembrance Sunday, really…

Fireworks should be banned except for organised displays.

Fireworks should be banned except for organised displays.

Today, 4pm, broad daylight, take my dog out, some twat let off a firework. Nov 5th great, fine, expected, 10th daylight no.

What a disgusting view, to put humans having fun (who have other options to do so) over animals suffering (who have no option to avoid the fireworks).

In your opinion, or is it a fact?