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!

People get injured not because of fireworks, but because of fire works being used incorrectly and dangerously

Right so let's make them widely available for sale then shall we? They're hardly a basic essential.

the world doesn't revolve around dogs!.

Nor does this thread so i dont get your point.

Arrggghhhh - it's not just the animals - people suffer as well, army personnel suffering from PTSD. Why do people not care about anyone other than themselves? Altinkum my dog is used to gun and cannon fire, but tonight the explosions are dreadful. It's not funny now.

cross post, I think!

yes greydog i meant the same as you.

Yes agree with you Greydog!

Exactly grey. As I mentioned earlier in this thread I know a charity who have hired a secluded cottage tonight to get ex service men and women away from the trauma of constant explosions

I'm more annoyed by the people complaining about fireworks every year than I am about fireworks.

Good for that charity - it makes you wonder how many just have to put up with it tho?

Idiots in the car park next to mine setting them off, next doors dog is not happy bless him. Irresponsible fucks.

But it's not a few fireworks - it's like the shelling barrage. And it goes on and on and on. And as I keep saying - it's not just dogs and kids. But why wouldn't you have some consideration for other people? I like Motorhead, but I wouldn't inflict them on others by playing them really loudly.
But then again.......

Not everyone buys them for the garden and not everyone is considerate regarding times and number of fireworks. People are selfish and don't give a fuck about other so called "miseries". I really can't see why those that want to see fireworks can't go to an organised display. It's the general sale of these dangerous items to anyone who appears old enough that gets me.

Try living in a council area 2 doors down from the local drug dealer who acts like he owns the street and then think that fireworks are fine. They can be very very dangerous and often are. They are, after all, explosives.

But its not just one week a year. It starts here beginning of October and goes on well into January.

And why shouldn't people consider others when they do things that affect others around them? Nobody lives in a bubble where only they get affected by what they do. If everybody thought just a little bit about others around them the world would be a better place.

Fortunately for me neither my cat nor DC are bothered by fireworks but I still find them dangerous and noisy.

It is legal to buy fireworks and set them off before 11pm so short of the law changing why does this come up year upon year. All the moaning in the world isn't going to stop anyone until the law changes. Guess what next year people will be doing fireworks too so all you can do it prepare for it and that is it.

I can hear the display fireworks and they are over 5 miles away but who cares really I'd take a firework or two or three or 10 going off over the bloody neighbours who think its ok to drive up with their music blasting and sit there in their car with it switched on whilst they have a fag/ conversation for over an hour, the vibration from the bass is more annoying!

"It starts here beginning of October and goes on well into January."

Oop here in Yorkshire where folk are tight more careful with their money we get fireworks for a few days either side of bonfire night and on NYE only.

Wer are , fortunately the same bunbaker. Been going off off 5-9 and now pretty much stopped. A few at the weekend expected like there were last weekend but maybe we are more considerate because we have livestock and are more rural?
Does terrify me that ANYONE over 18 can buy them and use them at will though

We had fireworks in the garden.
Over with in 15 mins and done by just after 7pm. Neighbour across the fence screamed at us for traumatising her dogs....

Then proceeded to come to out door to carry on her complaint. I don't complain when she paps the dogs out at 6 am every morning to bark non stop yet she can't allow one 15min slot in a YEAR?!

Things got heated shall we say..

Yabu, the world doesn't revolve around dogs!

No it doesn't... it appears to revolve around those who have no respect for their fellow neighbour/citizens & feel they are able to do what the hell they like, at the expense of everyone who doesn't agree with their lifestyle.

Thing is, KissMyFatArse yours may have been 15 minutes, but there are always others doing the same for far longer.

And if you don't like the noise her dog makes, report her.

Yabu!!!

This really pisses me off tbh.
Some of my happiest memories as a kid was family fireworks.

So I have carried on the tradition with my children, they look foward to it all year. We get togeather with friends and family have a big BBQ and watch the fireworks togeather.

And just because your dog is scared we shouldn't be able to do it anymore?? Get a grip and a life. It's one night a year, people are having fun. Stuiped idiots aside people are generally very safe with him . It annoys me idiots that ruin it for everyone else and it also annoys me stuck up people who can't put up with a bit of noise one night a year when people are enjoying themselfs.

Rant over

"It's one night a year"

But, clearly it isn't, judging from the many posts on MN about fireworks.

I live in central London. I have had a couple of near misses by a cm or two from rockets being fired in the street by yobs. One little shit hid behind a hedge deliberately firing them at passers by. I think they should be banned for sale to the general public for that reason.

I was at a firework party years ago where the neighbour had an aviary and all the birds died I believe, he went mad at my friend who had the party.