To think that fireworks should be banned from public sale?

[Runny]

It would be nice if people could use them responsibly and reserve their use for the 5th of November and New Years Eve, but around here theyve been going off for weeks and even now as I'm sitting here typing this, as 12.40 in the afternoon some idiot is letting them off in broad daylight. In fact it's been happening all morning! My poor dog is going beserk. I'd like to go around to whoever it is, ram a lit firework up their arse and launch them into space for being such an inconsierate, anti social selfish twat!

They are bloody dangerous in the wrong hands, they cause distress to animals, young children, elderly people, war veterans and people with ASD. How is it possible that anyone over the age of 18 can walk into a shop and buy them?! It's absurd. There is no need for them to be on sale when you can go to an organised display and watch them.

Please can we ban them?

[MarchEliza2]

I'm currently on the children's ward with my 20 month DD. Luckily we have just found out that the viral infection that hit her like a truck is tonsillitis so hopefully we will be leaving soon.

While I was in A&E a little boy (I would guess 7ish) was brought in I his mothers arms with a badly burned leg. Hit by a firework.

YANBU

[Cherryskypie]

My dog wasn't frightened of fireworks until some prick set one off over our garden last Saturday. It sounded like a bomb going off. He's been put on anti anxiety medication by the vet and has had to be given it every day since as idiots kept setting off fireworks. It took us two days to get him to set foot in the garden again. He still won't go outside once it's dark.

It's not 2 nights or 3 or 4. It's 8 and counting.

[PinkiePiesCupcakes]

Still sat hearing them. My 3y7m DD is still unsettled, her radio is on but its not helping that much.

Whoever thinks setting g fireworks off at night at 10.45 is beyond inconsiderate, they're fucking idiots.

[thegoodnameshadgone]

Ok I get people's point when they are dealing with people being irresponsible. Let's ban alcohol etc etc. There are always some people who will ruin it for people who are responsible.

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

But alcohol is banned in situations where it can pose danger, driving, work place and so on.
So if fireworks are banned from being sold to the general public it will be a comparable situation.

[Shamalamalam]

Dickheads are still setting them off here too. It's nearly 11pm FFS

Dog doesn't know whether he's coming or going. It goes quiet, he relaxes, then it starts up again.

But hey, as long as they're having fun right?

[FleurThomas]

Diwali and Bonfire Night run around the same time. That might be why fireworks have been going off, if you have Hindu/Buddhists/Sikhs near where you live.

[MissVictoria]

Having had a lit one thrown at me in a corridor with closed doors at either end and getting the life frightened out of me, i totally agree! I absolutely hate fireworks, i suffer from headaches, and the noise of them going off all night has had me on the sofa in the dark buried in pillows. Round where i live its not one or two idiots, there's LOADS. They light and throw them at passing strangers, throw them into public bonfires, let them off all hours of the day and night. And to buy your own it is far too cheap. You can by singular fairly large ones in the poundshop!
You should need a permit to buy them, and be restricted where, and what time they can be used. They are literally explosives.

[Rach168]

YANBU. I think pretty much every night for the last month (and sometimes during the day too) lads have been throwing fireworks around to have a 'laugh' or try to threaten and intimidate people (I nearly got hit by one a couple of weeks ago). I know people who have stopped going out at night because they are too intimidated by it. Even next door's display (which was at least intending to set fireworks into the air rather than at people) was firing them so close to my windows that I was terrified one of them was going to come through.

Yes, the knobheads who use fireworks to show off and intimidate other people will be knobheads every day of the year but only at this time of the year are they are able to easily and legitimately access dangerous weapons - which is what fireworks are.

Our local paper's website is already reporting that a teenage girl has been hit in the face by a firework this evening

[HelenaDove]

Japenese Are you also including the police sniffer dogs who could be deployed to help you if God forbid a crime is committed against you.


The stupidity is astounding tonight.

[HelenaDove]

"You can by singular fairly large ones in the poundshop"



Im old enough to remember unscrupulous shopkeepers selling singular ciggies at 10/20p a go to youngsters. If they tried that now they would be prosecuted because cigs are a killer. But they are a slow killer. A firework can kill or maim instantly and Poundworld are selling them singularly???!!!

This is proof that unless they are stopped by law (like in the case of cigarettes) they will continue to do so.

They need to tighten the laws on this and make it just as big a stigma to sell fireworks singularly as it is to sell cigarettes singularly.

Because the young dickheads letting them off around here are getting them from somewhere.

[WindInThePussyWillows]

6 month old twins have been woken up 6 times now since 730 I'm sooooo tired.

[HelenaDove]

still going off here at 25 mins past midnight.

Its not NYE

[user1471439727]

YANBU - I wholeheartedly agree.

It makes me so angry to see animals suffer because of this. Once you've seen one firework you've seen them all.

[Cisoff]

It would certainly save a few fingers and eyes from being blown to bits.

[MummyIsAFreeElf]

I don't think banning them will solve the problems. Where I live your supposed to apply for a license for fireworks but that doesn't stop people buying them and selling them. Kids constantly get them and cause havoc. We used to get them posted through our letterbox, tried to hold them in our dogs mouth and get them thrown at us on a near daily basis around Halloween and new year (we don't celebrate guy fawkes (sorry if that's spelt wrong lol)) scumbags and idiots will still manage to get their hands on them. Needing a license or banning them won't solve it IMHO

[DartmoorDoughnut]

Some arsehole just set off a box load waking up the entire house and freaking out the dog who is trying to dig his way out of the fucking kitchen. I hate the bastard things

[GinIsIn]

FFS!!!!!! It took me until 3am to persuade the dog to stop crying and come out from under our bed.... And some drunken cunty fuckers have decided to set a whole load off in the street right in front of our house at 3am!!!! YANBU at all - it's dangerous, disruptive, and downright upsetting to see pets/young children in distress for 10 fucking days at a time!!!

[CurtainsforRonnie]

03.15 a.m - we were woken by some arsehole one letting them off.

[CurtainsforRonnie]

At least 20,000 people have signed since last night when I looked, to ban fireworks from general sale but have proffesional displays only.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/168663

[snapcrap]

Why are war veterans specifically distressed by fireworks?

Well I was going to say YABU because I love fireworks and the tradition of doing them in the back garden, but then reading some of these responses where fireworks are going off day and night near them, I can appreciate how upsetting it can be.

I've never experienced this though - where we live we had a couple of houses doing an hour or so early evening and no other bother. Also I seem to have the only cat in the world who's perfectly chilled with loud noises. Maybe he's deaf!

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

Up since six o'clock, dog was too scared to got for a wee last night and drank a lot of water, because of the Zylkene, or stress, who knows.

Dreading the residual bangs tonight.

[LineyReborn]

We had very drunk adults fighting in the street in the early hours, still in possession of - and setting off - huge, loud, dangerous fireworks. It's bloody madness. How can it possibly be ok for idiots to buy such powerful fireworks without a license?

God knows what carnage will be visible this morning.

I agree with you, OP.

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

PTSD, snapcrap.

I wasn't too bothered about fireworks until recently, but it was only one night or two, in the early evening and that was it.

In the last few years though it's gone bonkers. Weeks of it, especially with Diwali until early morning. Last night things calmed down by 11, so we slept through the night.

[iCoCo]

That's excellent Ronnie.I signed too last night and i'm happy so many others did too.

I love a good firework display, I agree there are lots of responsible people using fireworks, but there are so many irresponsible people who don't think of safety.

The fire brigade try to educate people, but even at an organised display last night a spectator was injured. If a law is passed to ban fireworks from general sale I really hope they also ensure authorised users are trained effectively and put steps in place to stop any black market.