To shout at people who let fireworks off?!

[sltorres9]

A Load of fireworks have just gone off, my baby woke up crying, I've raced out of the house to the house where they were being Let off, I said "if you let one more firework off before the 5th november" I'll shove that firework so far up your arse ?? now three dogs in the street are howling, my cat has gone in hiding and I need to comfort my son!!

So what! it's selfish.

What's selfish?

Organised displays which raise money for local charities?

Yeah really selfish

I'm another one who would rather them be banned apart from organised displays. Our house backs onto an alley there's often 'little' oiks setting bins on fire so I'm dreading the little sods getting their hands on fireworks

So what! it's selfish.

Yup we're incredibly selfish to organise a Hogmanay event and invite the village along [comfused]. We've never had any complaints. People really look forward to organised displays.

YABU for making it about your baby.
Otherwise, YANBU.
Fireworks are boring and antisocial.
and aren't you supposed to have a licence for them?

"I don't know what Diwali is and I don't think it's celebrated here"

It is celebrated by people all over the world.

The world doesn't revolve around you OP, shocking as that might be to hear. You behaved dreadfully.

Your response was unreasonable, your wish for them not to let them off wasn't.

I have a rescue dog who is TERRIFIED of loud noises (and boxes, and brooms, and shadows, but I digress ) and whilst we can prepare for the expected displays, the unexpected are a pain in the arse.
There is no reason to have fireworks outside of Diwali, new years and 5th Nov and the Saturdays either side. And if you insist that you simply can't adequately celebrate your other event without forcing your guests to crane their neck at an awkward angle and come up with 10 alternative noises of appreciation (ooh, ahh, eeee anyone?!) then use the silent fireworks.

If you think about it if one house is setting off fireworks, the likelihood it there is probably 5 houses in the vicinity that will be adversely affected by them - dogs, cats, babies. So it's probably not fair to say the OP is being precious

The OP's reaction was completely ott.

I get where OP is coming from. I live overseas and here they set off fireworks for every bank holiday through the summer (about 4 occasions from May-Sept). It gets very wearing when people set them off on the Fri, Sat, Sun and Monday night randomly, I had one neighbour do the most tedious display setting off one firework every few mins for about an hour - it was so drawn out and kept my 6 yo up until 11pm!

So yes it can be annoying but YABU to confront them in such a rude manner!

Bonfire Night and New Years Eve/Hogmanay fair enough, noise pollution otherwise. Raise money quietly, too much to ask.

You don't what Diwali is? Really? Where on earth do you live?

We deal with this every 4th of July in America. A week of fireworks.

I'd be fine with it if they cut if off around 10pm, but it goes on until 3-4 in the morning!

You left your baby to run down the street after the letters-off? clutches pearls

I live in Scotland but I've never ever heard of Diwali, my partner was upstairs at the time I left the house

you are serious about Diwali.

Now I am bloody well shocked.

I've just asked my partner and he doesn't know what Diwali is either haha we are sheltered!

You really have behaved very badly here OP. How do you know they weren't being set off for a birthday / wedding anniversary / celebration? Life does not revolve around you and your baby. If a neighbour spoke to me like that, I would be calling the police as you have threatened me.

You owe your neighbours a box of chocolates and an apology.

Because animals and babies don't mind being woken/scared on the evenings we have decreed "official" firework evenings?

Tbf to your neighbours, if you are going to let off fireworks, before 7pm is quite a civilised time to do so.

There's fine line between sheltered and ignorant. Diwali is even celebrated in Scotland

I know it wasn't anything specific as its teenagers who live in the house. And anyway, since when we fireworks needed to have a good celebration? I shouldn't have said what I did but I was so annoyed that my baby had been woken as it was so unexpected

What sharon said!

Maybe I'm ignorant then! I've just never heard about it. Maybe it's not celebrated in the part of Scotland I'm in

Of course not

My Dd is autistic and is terrified of fireworks. She goes to bed frightened, wakes every time one goes off and last year spent 3 weeks sleeping with me. She woke every morning anxious and started worrying about them from the time she gets home from school. She's 6.
I can manage the organised displays - I plan ahead and they tend to start and finish reasonably early. I also Google all the local schools etc and check when the events are on so I know when they are happening.
It's the random back garden displays which can go on until the wee hours that give me the rage. Last year we asked our neighbours if they could finish their display around 9 ish - I did explain why. I thought that was reasonabe. It started at nine and went on til after 11 and she was screaming the whole time.