To want fireworks banned from public sale?

[JellyDiamonds]

I'm not a killjoy, but I'm sitting here with a fucking terrified dog. He is not a dog who scares easily, but it sounds like the Blitz out there tonight I've got the TV turned up loud to drown out the sound, I've shut the curtains and he is still cowering in the corner. Not even the lure of a treat is bringing him out.

It's the same every year, selfish fuckers buying bombs to set off in their gardens with little consideration for neighbours with pets and young children. At least pets have shelter from it though, farm animals and wildlife don't.

In fact I hate the entire concept of bonfire night really. Burning a catholic on a bonfire. How is that still acceptable in 2014.

Just go to a public display and stop inflicting this noise on your neighbours please!

[Iggly]

Yanbu. My two DCs hate them. I also worry about idiots setting them off foolishly

[Bunbaker]

It cost me £4 to go to an excellent public display last night. Actually it cost me £5 because I told them to keep the change as all the profits went to charity.

At the Yorkshire Wildlife Park they end the safari nights with bangless fireworks. They are just as pretty, just not loud. I don't know why they have to be so loud.

Although, I agree that fireworks shouldn't be sold to the general public.

[fieldfare]

I've inly just posted about this very thing on FB. It's driving me nuts. I love going to a good proper display, I cannot abide my neighbours letting rip with incendiary devices in their back garden!

[LovleyRitaMeterMaid]

Yanbu however if it's any consolation I've never seen a Guy on a bonfire.

I celebrate his attempt!

[MollyHooper]

You're right Colley.

I'm 26 and when I was little it used to be a whooooosh POP at the most.

Now it's fucking KABOOOOOOM! :o

[JellyDiamonds]

I'd like to go out there right now and shove their Roman candles up their arses. Really I would.

[Pasithea]

Having been at the vets today and seen a horse who's rug was set on fire by a falling firework, believed to be from an organised display. I am now anti them as well.

[PiperIsOrangePumpkins]

DH would be more than happy to apply for a licence to do fireworks.

What I hate though is fireworks being sold on Facebook. I know these people and in no way are they going to be as safe as firework in shops.

[SusannahD]

YANBU, I don't even feel comfortable going to organised displays due to people setting fireworks off anywhere they like. They are so dangerous and easily get into the hands of young people who don't fully understand the dangers.

[Sirzy]

I'm with you, or at least very much limited to the size which can be purchased for domestic use

[AnyoneForTardis]

YANBU.

till 3am last night.

surely Divalis over by now???

and itll be ALL this week too.

[springlamb]

Can't say too much in case it outs me.
Last night the village ASBOs had a firework party. We suspect the fireworks were probably destined for a huge display but ended up in their back garden.
So far in the village we have a foal that has run into a fence and hurt, an old horse who nobody can get near enough to comfort as she is so traumatised, and so sadly two pet dogs that have startled and run only to be run over. Neither driver stopped

[colleysmill]

Molly I'm a bit older than you but I remember my mum banning my dad from buying "bangers" which you threw on the floor (no visible spark) because they were too noisy and we might upset the neighbours.

But definitely it used to be "whoosh & slightly pitiful pop"

[notagainffffffffs]

Yanbu, animals are scared and waking up 2yo...grrrrrrrrrrr1

[MollyHooper]

Bangers here are much louder too, which is worrying because it's mostly kids who have those.

I thought the unusual loudness where I live was because they had all obviously fallen off the back of a cruise ship lorry (no one applies for a licence) but it seems to be all over.

[Greydog]

I hate the bloody bastard things, and the morons that buy them. What about ex soldiers who suffer from PSTD? Sounded like heavy bloody shelling here last night. But what really, really puzzles me is this. Some years ago DH was a civil war re enactor. In order to use a musket he needed a shotgun certificate. In order to use black powder (gunpowder) he needed a certificate. So how is it that any fuckwit can walk into any supermarket and buy gunpowder?

[CombineBananaFister]

I sort of see where you're coming from as every fucking eeijit can buy them and drink alcohol and set them off but i don't think there are many reasonably priced public displays.
If you live up my end in Yorkshire they are ALL out of town and require you to drive, ALL extortionalty priced if you have more than one child and ALL at really inappropriately late times. I would love to go to a public display but its cheaper/more reasonable to do it at home at 5:30ish if a few families club together.
Would love to see schools and churches start doing them again in a sensible manner

[pauline6703]

Enjoy them, as a kid I loved having fireworks and we used to organise displays making sure no adults were present. We got the odd burn or two but flesh heals.
It is fun for kids and they learn to enjoy the noise and flames

[extremepie]

I was in Australia on Darwin day about 10yrs ago and there were idiots getting drunk and putting fireworks into glass bottles & chucking them off the balcony of the hostel I was staying in. How no one died or got injured I don't know :/

[Sirzy]

Grey, a local charity for ex service men and women have hired a cottage in the middle of nowhere for a few days this week for just that reason because they know how traumatic it can be for them

[CaptainAnkles]

I love fireworks but I prefer safer large organised displays than people letting them off in tiny back gardens. But I'm in a minority because although I love cats and dogs I don't see why their rights should trump those of humans to celebrate special occasions.
So, kind of on the fence which will probably be flamed.

[Sirzy]

We got the odd burn or two but flesh heals

Tell that to the friend of my mum who 40 years down the line still has scars (and pain) from a firework accident

[WyrdByrd]

Yanbu to dislike fireworks and make a valid point re the disturbance to kids & pets but...the level of vitriol directed at people who buy fireworks for home displays on this thread is appalling.

Yes, there are idiots out there,but there are also plenty of safe, responsible, considerate people doing their own displays. Our friend is one of them. We have all got together, along with his family every firework night for the last 20 years - no injuries, no damage and all over by 7.30pm to minimise disturbance.

Frankly it's pretty offensive to be lumped in the same category as those who buy the loudest bangers they can find, get pissed & let them off inappropriately.

[fruitloopsandfruitshoots]

I am so glad I am not the only one who feels like this. They seriously anger me! What is the point? I genuinely couldn't give a shit what you are celebrating- no celebrations require fireworks. There are SO many people who suffer as a result of them, how is it still legal? I know that my dogs will be hysterical from last weekend until the end of January because any idiot can set them off at any time and will do frequently for the next 3 months. Aaaaaargh, it makes me so mad!!

If they can't be illegal, can they at least not be limited to 5th of November and NYE? Why do we have to put up with them constantly for at least 3 months of the year? It's crazy.