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to wish that shops didn't sell fireworks at new year?

115 replies

HeidiKat · 31/12/2011 17:28

Every new year my neighbours across the road set off loads of fireworks, seems to go on for ages. It's annoying as both my bedroom and 1yo DD's look out onto their garden. I am a bit of a miserable cow around new year, don't really bother with it and am more likely than not to be in bed before the bells after running round after a toddler all day, so AIBU to think that fireworks should be for fireworks night only and it is antisocial to set them off in a residential area at midnight?

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cakeismysaviour · 01/01/2012 12:01

I was annoyed that nearby residents started yelling Happy New Year and setting their fireworks off at 3 mins to midnight instead of actually at midnight. They must have spent a fortune on them and they get the wrong time!

Grin
notveryinventive · 01/01/2012 12:10

I wish that only certain people could get fireworks at any time of the year. I think that if they were left to organised displays on both 5th Nov and NYE then it would be soooo much better. They wouldnt get into the wrong hands (then again apart from the yearly episode of casualty, Im not sure Ive ever really heard of real firework injurys) and it would be ever so much nicer. If you wanted to see them you could go to your nearest display be it a pub, town hall, city centre etc and enjoy them, but you weren't forced to have to put up with them all night (well all night on 5th Nov not NYE).

Cake we heard them going off early here too Hmm

I think people can be anti-social with them more so in Nov (round here they tend to go off for about a week around the 5th) and this would stop if they were banned from anyone walking into a store and picking them up and kept to organised public displays.

cakeismysaviour · 01/01/2012 12:17

notveryinventive - Agree with all you just said, I think they shouldn't be available for just anyone to buy.

FrankiDon182 · 01/01/2012 12:30

Our children are growing up in a world where you are mocked for not being complete pissheads/druggies.
Parties are all well and good but, please tell me what is logical about a bunch of drunk/drugged up being playing with fireworks that disturbs the rest of the nrighbourhood.
I am not a grouchy old woman before people assume, i am 19 years old. But it seems that i have more sense in my head regarding common courtesy and not wanting to spend an unnecessary fortune on fireworks, pointless!
I hope every mumsnetter with a hangover this morning has very LOUD children today. Hahaha!

pictish · 01/01/2012 12:42

I hope every mumsnetter with a hangover this morning has very LOUD children today. Hahaha!

Do you? That's nice of you.

I hope your next shit is a hedgehog.

WorraLiberty · 01/01/2012 12:55

Parties are all well and good but, please tell me what is logical about a bunch of drunk/drugged up being playing with fireworks that disturbs the rest of the nrighbourhood

Well you clearly go to different parties to me then!

And my children are growing up in a world where community spirit and fun hasn't been killed off by the miseries Wink

Sparklingbrook · 01/01/2012 13:20

My children are cat lovers. Wink

LineRunner · 01/01/2012 13:27

We had fireworks round here from 7pm till after 2am, though. It just seemed to ... drag on a bit. Especially for the animals.

But then my neighbours had to put up with my teenagers laughing at a Sarah Millican DVD till after 1am. (So now I know who finds her funny...)

cakeismysaviour · 01/01/2012 13:53

Gosh 7pm until 2am is pretty excessive, even allowing for New Years! I'm glad it wasn't as bad as that around here!

hotmomma · 01/01/2012 14:01

i hate fireworks there loud horrible and make me jump it isn't just november the 5th they start from september right till bloody january. but i wouldent stop anyone from enjoying them its when they become annoying then it pisses me of i dont enjoy a big bang at 1 o clock in night. yanbu

notveryinventive · 01/01/2012 14:54

thanks cake

I meant to add that even though I would like to see fireworks only used in organised displays, the fact is they aren't and anyone can go into a shop and buy them (usually with an offer) and because of that its not illegal so Im quite happy for people to have their fun, but it is annoying when you have other things to be doing (like sleeping), but you just gotta put up with it (unless it does become a serious problem then you can maybe complain, but only if its more than a one off occurance and its not at the usual times of the year ie start of Nov and NYE)

Kladdkaka · 01/01/2012 18:04

Parties are all well and good but, please tell me what is logical about a bunch of drunk/drugged up being playing with fireworks that disturbs the rest of the nrighbourhood

Well you clearly go to different parties to me then!

Me too. The one I went to involved a bunch of people in dinner jackets and ballgowns; silver service banquet of courses involving lobster, trout and suchlike with matching wines; a dance band; the foxtrot, jive, rumba and cha-cha; toasts to the king and standing for the national anthem; and a mountain of FIREWORKS which half the neighbourhood came out to see too (including lots of toddlers in pushchairs).

Sparklingbrook · 01/01/2012 18:08

That's really nice for you Kladdkaka but possibly not the norm.

nannipigg · 01/01/2012 18:08

We had Drunken kids lighting fireworks in empty bottles then throwing them along the street. I personally don't mind them if used responsibly, but our animals hate them. I also prefer to watch them at firework displays on Bonfire night as home ones are a bit pants and too expensive really.
I can totally see where people are coming from when they say they hate them....

littlemisssarcastic · 01/01/2012 18:27

I have no problem with fireworks although I wonder what the environmental effect of millions of fireworks countrywide being let off is doing if they are let off for a specific time frame. It's when it goes on and on, until I wonder when it's going to end.

It's about compromise imo, letting off fireworks for hours and hours in a residential area is just plain inconsiderate imo. And it is never just one night in anywhere I've ever lived...every year, it is weeks of fireworks being let off near bonfire night and about a week of fireworks being let off for NYE.

Everyone wants to have fun, and they are beautiful to look at, but there are many people who would probably tolerate them alot better if it was only 2/3 nights a year, instead of the free for all that many places have now.

We had fireworks last night, and I'm expecting more in the next week, as that is usually what happens.
I'm sure that the people whooping and screaming loud enough to be heard half a mile away last night, within spitting distance of an entire street of houses were having too much fun yelling and screaming to give much thought if any to the street mainly occupied by pensioners, or the couple who live in the house 30 yards from their screaming where the elderly man is looking after his wife with advanced dementia, or their neighbours who are the same distance away from the screaming where the wife is elderly and terminally ill. Not to mention the other side of the playing field where there are many families with very young children and babies.

None of this would have been too much of a problem had it gone on for a short while, but to hear the fireworks and the screaming (of fully grown adults) going on until 1.40am was inconsiderate imo.

I'm another who would like to see fireworks at organised displays only. They are bloody dangerous in the wrong hands and despite children not being allowed to buy them, they are getting them from somewhere, because quite often children are seen letting them off. Sad

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