Motherfucking fireworks

I don’t think they should be band, but I think they should be silent or near silent. It’s the loud bangs which cause the issue for many children (especially children with ASD), for many adults, for pets and wildlife. Last year I attended a silent fireworks display, it was the most spectacular display I’ve ever attended.

My cat is cowering under the bed in a tiny space. Shes been there several hours. Utterly terrified. It breaks my heart. You can buy none bang fireworks. You get the light but not the bang. Why dont people use them? The loud fireworks should be banned in my opinion.

We get constant fire works in the evening all the way through October. i used not mind then but now we have a dog I hate them (currently the dog is sitting beside me in bed shaking)

Put some white noise on to help your kids sleep. I live in firework central and this helps loads - also good for pets

Hear hear. They’ve been going every night since Thursday, including at 00.40am this morning, and the dog is bloody losing it. Why can’t there be one official display that ends at like 8pm and that’s it?
btw I feel the same whether it’s Diwali, Guy Fawkes, New years. Kids can’t sleep and the dog needs bloody Prozac. Grr.

I am all for cultural celebrations, but given the alternatives available, I don't know why it is still legal to buy fireworks that make noise and cause distress to animals. They're also really crap for the environment. I know we can't all have drone displays in our back gardens, but at the very least it should be the law that fireworks available for public purchase have to be soundless.

But you dont as you attended a fire works display yesterday. You find them annoying when getting a child to sleep, that’s not the same.

Still going of like crazy here too. I don't have an issue with them at a reasonable hour. But why, when it gets dark by 7ish, they still need to be going off at past 11 is beyond me. NYE ones are annoying too, but they are usually only for 15 mins or so at midnight, and the next day is a BH for most people. Vs most people have to go to work and school tomorrow, and this has been going on for over 4 hours where I am. Plus it's a bit triggering for me after getting caught up in a civil war when volunteering abroad, probably much more so for ex armed forces and other people who have been caught up in conflicts. At a public display you know when it's going to start and roughly end, rarely more than 10-15 mins. Hours and hours of it is exhausting.

It's a nightmare where am I am too.Going to bed now but know that the noise will go on for hours and I'll get woken up. There's no consideration shown by the idiots setting off fireworks all night. Presumably they don't have to get up for work tomorrow.

I hate them now..the local ones anyway. I think organised displays are fine, but there are too many issues with being able to just buy them over the counter at any old shop. When I was a teen I was walking down an underpass with some friends and a gang of lads shot fireworks at us, how we weren’t badly hurt I’ll never know - just terrifying. My dogs are terrified of them too, and the home fireworks go on for weeks. The dogs sit and shake, pant and cry or pace from room to room. No idea why they aren’t banned, just let people go to displays if they want to

You live in London - as did I until two month months ago. There is significant noise all night. Between boy racers or delivery drivers with their mopeds or souped up cars, people on nights out shouting and singing in the street as they make their way home, the neighbours having parties, assorted emergency service sirens, the buses hitting that one pothole which was right outside my window, the street sweeping lorries with their "Caution! Vehicle turning left" announcements blaring... Fireworks are the least of the worries when it comes to noise. In my experience it's only quiet-ish between about midnight - 5am.

If you expect peace and quiet in a city after 8pm, you're being a little bit silly.

I enjoy fireworks, but it’s not fair on animals so I am not in favour of them. Silent fireworks would be a compromise.

The problem is that you can't really pick and choose like that. My dog is just as bothered by them at 6pm as she is at 11pm. It does seem hypocritical to start a thread stating that your cat is terrified, it's effing triggering etc., but then have a get-out clause suggesting "but it's okay for my friends to have them before 7pm".
No it is not okay. It is never okay to have motherfucking fireworks, as you put it. And your thread is misleading.

They are still going off now and will be until the early hours. I do think people should stop at 11.

...and it seems to go on for days and nights on end

Why is it only triggering past 8pm? And does your cat get less scared before 8pm? How can it tell the time??

Why the Gaza chat? I don't think it's unreasonable to have fireworks a few nights a year.

The only dates fireworks should be allowed is Nov 5 and the Saturdays either side.- organised events only. Or a well publicised public event eg a national celebration.

My dog isn’t well and is in pain. Had his painkiller and was settling down when the sodding fireworks started and scared the living daylights out of him. He’s not normally bothered but I guess he’s sensitive tonight.

saturday night they were going off at 1am

noiseless fireworks are a thing - the noisy ones should be banned

I'm Indian and celebrated Diwali today but I am cursing the inconsiderate families in my area who were setting them off at 10.15 tonight. There is no excuse, it's dark now way before 7pm so there is really no need to wait until the majority of the country are fast asleep. Same goes for Bonfire Night.

Fines or licences are the only solutions

I don’t remember them being quite so nuclear bomb like when we were kids.

It was our towns bonfire night on Saturday and we live half a mile away and they still literally physically shook our house. At 10pm. 3 year old terrified, cats hiding in cupboards, stress all round.

I’m in favour of a complete ban. As a child they hurt my ears. As an adult I just find them unnecessary and think an LED light display with music is better. It’s not fair on pets and wildlife .

the past two night we have had them going off past 2am. me and dh have had little sleep for two nights as terrified dog runs between rooms, scratches doors etc

I completely agree with you and I'm Indian and celebrate Diwali but we stop the fireworks at 7pm and only really do them for the children. I would be happy for them to be banned and would prefer a licensed firework display instead.