To think that people who let off their own fireworks in their gardens are fucking idiots?

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just that really - unbelievably dangerous and pretty antisocial at 10 at night!

I actually really like walking around at night at this time of year when there are impromptu displays going on all over the place. If I had a garden I would be setting off my own - my parents always did it for us, and I loved it.

I think if people follow the safe distances on the box, taking into account that neighbours also deserve to be a safe distance away then probably they are ok at a reasonable time. Problem is, most people don't have gardens that big.

When I was a kid we used to have them in our back garden. One of my earliest memories is of a catherine wheel being fixed to the door of the shed, whizzing frantically and then spinning off its moorings, leaving a charred circle on the paint Ahhh, those were the days, we had a firework party every year.

I don't think my parents were fucking idiots. But you are perfectly entitled to your opinion.

I don't like organised displays. They are crowded and too noisy with lots of bangers etc. We go to my mums where there is penty of space and have some small and pretty rather than loud fireworks. Nice food of our own choosing, no crowds and for all of us probably no dearer than the expensive organised dos.

YABU - it's a few nights a year, before 11 is fine.

Some people don't like big, busy organised displays or prefer to have private family parties.
Also a bit rude - f-ing idiots taking it a tad too far...?! Some of them - more than likely; all of them - no.

Yabu, I love them. Ds1 and I have been watching our neighbours' from an upstairs window tonight and will be going to a display on Monday. Wouldn't bother me if they went on all night tbh.

YADNBU, dh is in the fire service and can recount endless stories of horrific injuries and damage done to people, pets, property through "unofficial" firework use. Even by well meaning people who thought they had organized home displays safely. Why would you want to play with explosives? Just stupid.

I love fireworks in the back garden. I buy the biggest you can buy and we let them off at . I prefer to buy a few big ones than lots of small ones.

....let them off at 7ish.....

I hate fireworks. Have always hated them but I wouldnt go as far as to say ban them, personally dont like to see people having them in tiny gardens. Its scary.

I see no problem with responsible adults letting fireworks off in their own gardens. On the 5th of the November.

What I mind is the stupid bloody kids flinging them about Asian the field outside mt house.

The folk who set them off after 11pm.

The people who set them off every. Bloody. Night. From sept to December.

Private firework displays are banned in many countries - you need to have a licence to buy them.
I don't see why we should be any different in the UK, on the flimsy pretext that someone tried and failed to set off some gunpowder four hundred years ago.

YANBU. It's not one night a year, it goes on for months. In our local supermarket you can only buy them at the end of your shopping, because they don't want you carrying them round the shop because they're DANGEROUS. Go to a proper display.

Yanbu. But for me it's more about safety.

About five years ago, my parents neighbours set one off from their bathroom window. Their bathroom window backed onto a little, metre wide path between the houses to my parents back garden (the path being my parents land).
The firework hit the guttering for the roof, came back down bouncing between the walls and missed their own, open bathroom window by mere inches. We all would have been seriously injured had the bloody thing got through the window. They destroyed our guttering and the while thing had to be refitted at parents cost as their housing association could do nothing

I also remember a firework party my boyfriend and his mates had when i was a teen, where the firework wasn't stiuk in the ground properly and fell over to face us and the house we were sat in front of. We're all lucky we managed to get away in time, the house had a nice burn mark though!