To hate fireworks and think they should be banned

[TaliZorah]

In residential areas?

They are so disruptive and dangerous. It's not even limited to 5th November or New Year's Eve they will go on for a week around every celebration plus people's personal parties.

AIBU to think letting off explosives in populated residential areas is incredibly stupid and unfair? As well as people getting injured it's not fair to the wildlife, and domestic animals. My cat has a heart problem and jumps like he's been hit every time the fireworks go off and ends up cowering behind the seat.

Then there's people with PTSD who think it sounds like gunshots, people like me who's illness gets worse with lack of sleep...

They should be organised displays only.

You clearly live somewhere quiet

I wish!

Wanting something banned because you just don't like it is selfish.

Oh god. here we go again! its over, stop sweating about it.

Prime yourselves up for next year

I was brought up in Oz and have fond memories of guy Fawkes night before fireworks were banned in 1984 think it was. I think this was wise, given fire season is usually in full swing by then, but bonfire night isn't really done in Oz anymore...

I guess I'm saying it's sort of a shame the nanny state won...

Yes but the major thing your sticking to is MH, and PTSD, when whilst it can be a trigger the loud noises, there are plenty without that trigger and for someone like myself bringing say a dark field squeezed with lots of people would trigger me so would I as a MH patient you seem so willing and wanting to protect be expected to go to a place in the knowledge I would not enjoy and make me suffer for days, when there's an alternative of spending time with my family in the safety of my home?

And again without extra knowledge like where posters are from you can't have a representative sample from ~201 posts, how do we not know that if 50 people complained they aren't within close proximity to each other with a large concentration of fireworks? Or as MN allows name changing so easily that it's 10 people with a big grudge about fireworks ?

I have an anxiety disorder which means sudden loud noises cause me panic attacks.

Obviously I can't avoid all sudden loud noises or I'd never leave the house but because of fireworks NYE and bonfire night etc are frightening and stressful for me even though I just stay indoors.

And they're very distressing to animals - my dog is epileptic and the noise can cause her to have fits.

Unfortunately they are not something you can just avoid, much as I would love to do so.

Yanbu IMO OP.

I can honestly say in 2015 in its entirety there were about 20 hours of fireworks where i live

It always amazes me we are supposed to be so worked up about terrorism that they ban the sale of an organic herbicide and allow the sale of explosives.

And its hardly a nanny state when you can buy them in the supermarket, is it?

Maybe I have bad anxiety (among other issues) and this was my point in my previous post, it triggers you but it doesn't trigger me but going to a display would, and not all animals are frightened thankfully my dogs aren't. If it were based on a MH standpoint who should win as both outcomes would trigger one of us

maybebaybee even*

I don't get that knobbley- you can't make a bomb from commercially sold fireworks can you? (Not googling in case the police come)

Wahh gosh going to a display would also trigger me, I haven't been to one since I was a tiny kid.

I think it's quite horrible for people to have said those who don't like fireworks are joyless or moany. I don't enjoy being a grown woman who is afraid of loud noises. It doesn't make me a boring miserable person.

Also funny how dogs barking gives so many Mnetters the rage yet the one thing guaranteed to set them off are fireworks!

I love lanterns and fireworks at a certain time of year.

I also love the idea of setting a lantern into the sky for a dearly departed.

They're about celebration.

Get the fuck over yourselves. Really, do!

If however its going on other than that then of course say something.

Wahh but you don't have to go to a firework display. Maybe can't avoid fireworks because they're around her house

Maybe
so you would advocate getting rid of them totally? For the record I don't think it makes people joyless not enjoying them I think it's just perception like randomly I don't "get" people "making" set from defacing books by cutting the so the pages make words when looking at the closed book sideways.

I don't really know what the answer is but personally as somebody who enjoys them Tali has said its not because they are a nuisance but because of people with MH issues (at least that's what it seems ) and luckily fireworks are something that doesn't trigger me, but her suggestion of displays would make me really bad mentally for days

I don't know, I don't like the idea of banning things people enjoy but I would certainly prefer it if they didn't exist!

Fireworks, that is.

Tali

Except I wouldn't be able to go and you want them to be display only so I may never see another firework in my life (hopefully my handling of my condition would improve so I could) and what of those that live near the display a area, they would probably suffer more with louder/ longer/ more often occurring fireworks and my local place that does a display has several houses near it

I love them too

I love fireworks.

What annoys me are helicopters - police or news ones - hovering overhead.

On NYE I had both of them. I managed to put up with both and enjoyed the display.

Rosewithoutthorns - the problem with the poxy bloody lanterns is that they have to land somewhere, and when they do they can set fires. We have livestock, and over the last couple of days have picked up 4 of the bastard things from our fields/hedges. They traumatise the animals, they can eat the frames causing injury/death and in dry weather they carry on burning and set fire to dry fields and hay. They are a bloody menace.

Lasttango
You have my sympathy.
Unfortunately this thread shows only too clearly that some people are not interested in the effect on others of their own bit of fun. It seems to be the way of life these days.

also love the idea of setting a lantern into the sky for a dearly departed.

Hate them. And balloon ceremonies. "Let's commemorate a loved one by causing harm and suffering to wildlife."

What's wrong with bubbles?

I think lanterns are beautiful, but they are bloody stupidly dangerous: when I realised they had metal in their construction I went right off them. I'd agree with banning them, other than the ones with bamboo frames, on beaches with an offshore breeze. And enforcing that would be impossible.

It isn't selfish to want something banned or regulated that makes a racket.
Actually, it is. I hate loud motorbikes and amplified music, but I accept that other people like them, so I suck it up: totally accept it before midnight, esp Fri and Sat nights, and only really get arsey at about 2 a.m.