To wish fireworks for home use were banned?

[ValiantMouse]

People have been letting them off for over a week now. I'm sitting in my house and it sounds like the Battle of Britain is going on outside, mainly thanks to one neighbour who thinks it's ace to let off very powerful fireworks. I really hate it, my nerves are shot and if it's anything like last night, it'll be midnight before they stop.

AIBU?

YANBU

I'm fairly sure the emergency services would agree too.

I love fireworks but if I ran the world I would definitely restrict them to the weekend closest to the 5th.

Here (Oxford) they start mid October and go on until NYE. I do not understand why. I've never had it anywhere else.

Luckily my cat's a bitch tough cookie and not fussed but I know that some people's pets/kids really suffer.

No one is banning sparklers though. I LOVE sparklers.

YABU do we really want more government interference in our lives? More and more "nanny state" laws are being passed, more freedoms being eroded

Yanbu at all, it is nearly 10.00pm and they are still going off, scaring my poor dd who has ASD, she cannot sleep, inconsiderate idiots!

Yanbu. I love fireworks, they're very pretty. Dh really likes them and buys them to do in the garden some years. But it's not worth it! They are dangerous. We use them responsibly but even then we've had some that exploded on the ground instead of in the air. The pollution they give out is terrible. Why are explosives on general sale? If they got banned for home use, I wouldn't miss them, as I'd go to an organised display if I wanted to see some. Dh might grumble a bit, but it's not exactly a hardship for anyone, and it would save injuries every year, as well as disturbance. I'd support a ban.

Nah, I love 'em, but then we live in a very rural area and we don't hear anyone else's. Might be different if I lived in a town.

YANBU, love professional displays but I don't think they should be on sale to the general public. Too many irresponsible people.

YANBU. I dislike fireworks, my dogs aren't really bothered by them, one of DPs dogs is a shaking, miserable mess. Ndn decided half 9 last night was an excellent time to start letting them off for an hour It sounded like a warzone. They were hitting the trees, bouncing off and going all over the place. One hit my back window, I nearly shit myself. Welephant did too good of a job on me as a child, I think they're dangerous.

YANBU

I get the small-scale family fireworks thing, though personally think it's unnecessarily expensive and dangerous, but what I really don't get are what appear to be a random firework or two let off seemingly every 5-10 minutes or so (as is the case near here just now)

YANBU. It's not an unreasonable few, it's an unreasonable many.

Needs restricting to licensed displays only on the day itself and the Friday and Saturday of the weekends either side. The gardens around me are about 8 feet long and six feet square and people set off big powerful ones without giving a damn where they fall so long as they have their few minutes fun. My mother had a still lit one on her decking last year and another one went in her pond and killed her fish, and another dented my car bonnet.

The dog is hysterical with panic for the nth night in a row and my toddler nephew is starting to cry at dark every night and refuse to go outside after night after night of deafening bangs.

I think that dogs should be banned from residential/public areas. Lots of people are scared of them and they can be noisy, messy and dangerous. They should be limited to public displays run by professionals.

Fireworks only happen on a small number of days in the year. Generally in this last quarter. Hardly a chore to put up with.

Now, will someone please remind me what is next on the annual list of things to complain about after trick or treating and fireworks...? I need to prepare.

This time of year always makes me think of my now late very elderly neighbour, who hated fireworks because they reminded her of the blitz. To her, they were bombs - which must have been some sort of PTSD, I suppose. And then I read some interview with a recent ex-serviceman who said the same - to him, they were explosions. So now part of me flinches a bit when I hear them - but yet I love watching them.

Its a PITA. my cat stares up at the window every time they go off. Eyes wide ....ears up She doesnt like it.

We cant have the windows open because the pollution and smog it causes affects DHs emphysema.

ppl have been letting them off in the park at 4 pm (i suspect the shops selling them arent being too careful about who they sell them to as long as they make a profit) On Halloween last weekend an egg hit the windscreen of a moving car nearly causing an accident.

I remember seeing a horrific story in the paper years ago about a firework being tied to a cats tail and set alight. The cat survived but lost her tail.

And there were reports of fireworks being thrown at the horses at the march in London last night... i dont care what your politics are. There is never any excuse for this....EVER!

And they have been firing off big booming rockets here. The kind i thought were for professional display only.

Ds was at a bonfire in leeds last night and someone lobbed fireworks into the midst if a tightly packed crowd of people who wouldn't have been able to get away

direwo

I agree they shout be banned but for safety reasons not because poor Tabitha got woken up at 10. The whinging from some parents on my local FB group is baffling and hilarious in equal measure. You'd think it was an earthquake, not a few bangs.

FFS I hope everyone including your DS was ok and no one got hurt.

Given the inability of apparently grown adults to behave appropriately with explosives, I think we need a "nanny state" in relation to this.

Last night we had gale force winds here; didn't stop several households doggedly continuing with their display, regardless. My rabbits enclosure is singed from a stray round.
Oh, and when we left the house this evening the giant bonfire that was well alight in another nearby garden was threatening to destroy the hedge and there were attempts to control it with mugs of water!

I dread to think what it would be like in a city; we're in a small, rural town.

I bet the fire service and A and E departments are fed up to the back teeth of it.

Ive just had to let our cat out as she was scratching at the door so hopefully they have stopped.

There's a time and a place for fireworks and I don't think every night from late October to early January, in build up areas, is either the time or the place. They are a bloody nuisance then and I get a little nervous going out when it's dark (any time from about 5pm) in case some reckless idiots are setting them off and I get caught in the firing line! RE "the nanny state", I don't understand why governments made not wearing car seatbelts illegal yet still allow any Tom, Dick or Harry to buy explosives that may end up maiming people and causing a disturbace. I don't give a shit if individuals choose to risk wrecking their craniums by going through the windscreen in an accident - it's personal choice to take that risk and it doesn't hurt anyone else - but I care very much about the damage they could do by being reckless with fireworks!

Yanbu.

Ddog is petrified. She was cowering under a chair.

Can't you get something for animals. You plug it in and it makes a noise they can hear and distracts them?

YABU what's a firework party without fireworks? That would be tragic!

Yanbu

I don't have any pets but I do have a terrified two year old.

New year is the worst though. This year we're just going to wake the DDs up before midnight to make sure they're not terrified like they were last year.

I also believe they shouldn't be available unless for organised displays. It is illegal to use them after 11pm but at least that should be much earlier.

I used to love them, now I hate them.

Bollocks i totally get what you mean. I did the 40 min walk to my parents last Saturday evening and was nervous the whole time.

That wouldnt work on my cat Feliway plugs make no difference to her Minnie Shes a cat......shes not thick.

And i dont see why ppl should drug their pets because of a neighbours choice.