Fucking fireworks! There's really no need is there?

[OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow]

So this weekend, there were loads going off, sounded like a organised event. Dh was a bit pissed off, but I thought-Halloween party. Tonight-Sunday, there's been two similar, long drawn out events since it went dark.
My cat isn't bothered, but I know lots of animals and small kids will be upset by the loud noise (I've had to turn the TV up) We live in a market town with lots of stone houses, narrow yards and the sound just bounces from wall to wall.
So is it me being a miserable sod, or should they be controlled better than those?

agree with Scrabble just awful for animals and just restrict it to one flipping night

It relentless here and has been for the last 4 weeks. My poor dog is fucking terrified and won't even go out for a walk during the day, as even then there are arseholes setting them off just cos they can. It will be like this until NYE.
It's awful watching her. She shakes and hyperventilates and desperately tries the find somewhere to hide.
I've tried everything to help her but nothing works.

we live near a couple of tourist attractions and we know when their events will be and we can manage those with him

Same here. During the summer there is at least 2 displays a week, plus other big events. I know when they are and can plan around them

It’s the random fireworks in people’s back gardens that I hate. Dog was trying to have a wee at the bottom of our garden earlier when the neighbour set a load off in his tiny back garden. Scared the shit out of him

As a farmers wife I hate this time of year ! Our daisy cows and sheep become terrified . Also our working dogs become stressed on an evening when they go off ! There really is no need for them going off for weeks on end . One night I could understand and be prepared for how our animals will feel but when they go off for weeks on end and cause major trauma to animals, it's just not on

I love them and would watch them 365.

I have never heard of, or seen, an organised event for Diwali!?

Do they exist?

My dogs love them. They sit there in the garden or at the window watching them go off. My chickens don’t seem bothered in fact the emergency services sirens set them off but not fireworks.

Friends horse has aborted her foal. Shes found the foal dead in the field after the mare went into premature labour due to a firework display

It's fine when it's just the day itself and the weekend before and/or after. Anything more is just antisocial.
As for NYE and Diwali
Maybe the best way to go would be prohibiting general sale and making them organised displays only.

I think a compromise could be made- allow fireworks but restrict really loud ones to licence/organised events

I think this is a very sensible suggestion from scentofwater

It would be a shame to ban home use altogether. But I remember when I was a kid we just use to get a few in a sort of selection box. Nothing really huge. And they were saved until Bonfire Night when we had the excitement of Dad setting them off in the back garden.

I think a compromise could be made- allow fireworks but restrict really loud ones to licence/organised events

I think there is something like this^^ already in place. Anything over 120 decibels is only for organised events I think.

The problem is that even the 'quiet' fireworks are loud, smoky, pollute and are distressing for some animals, children and vulnerable people. It's another one of those things where people can't see past, "but I LIKE it". Usually not a problem if people are sensible about it; don't do anything stupid / dangerous, don't set them off in built up areas, restrict it to things like bonfire night and New Years only, (although, having lived near a big estate with a lot of Americans in it, I know there would be uproar if they were told they couldn't set of fireworks for 4th July, so it's difficult to know where to draw the line).

The problem is, that there are enough senseless, antisocial wankers around to make me think I'd ban the things if I possibly could.

"At present any firework that exceeds 120 decibels must not be supplied to consumers. There are also low noise fireworks available that consumers can choose to buy, but we do not propose to bring in regulations to require all fireworks to be low noise."

Government response to recent petition to restrict use of fireworks.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/201947

running Yep - in Edinburgh city centre tonight. We're all multicultural round these parts, don't you know?

Ollivander

www.dogingtonpost.com/italian-city-using-silent-fireworks-out-of-respect-for-animals/

I hate and detest fireworks. I feel so sorry for the animals that are terrified by them, and for those people who suffer from PTSD who are terrified by them. Any moron can buy them, and every year we have to put up with this shit. Ollivander I am so sorry to read that.

And a final word from Viz.

I wouldn’t mind the main nights, but every bloody night for weeks we get random bangs. Poor dog spends every evening panicking - we can sedate him fir the odd night but not every day.
Last year next door but one let them off in their drive. Just stupid.
Sometimes it isn’t even dark when they start so it’s very unpredictable

One of my dogs is so upset by the fireworks, which have been going off here from about 3pm (WHY)- gone midnight most nights for a fortnight, that he has constant diarrhoea and vomit. The poor dog is currently at the vet with my OH because he only weighs 6lb anyway and can't afford to lose anymore weight.
The poor dog is wreck.

If it was just Halloween, Guy Fawkes and New Year we could send him to family out in the country but we live in a busy city with fireworks going off from mid-Oct until Jan 1st. If gets old.

They should be banned for home use. They have been going off for two weeks here. Thankfully the dog couldn’t care less she’s just puts her head up for really loud ones. My husband however is terminally ill and last week was really unwell and every time he’d start to fall asleep one would bang and wake him up even when it was light out.

twitter.com/MPSCumberlandMk/status/925439036298231808

I looked at the price of them and was shocked.
I don't mind up till 9pm but does it have to be every night between October and Jan?

They should only be allowed at public displays. At least then you'd know when to expect them.

Our poor dog is so stressed by them. I decided to take him for his walks in an afternoon rather than in the evening this week but both yesterday and today we've heard fuckwits letting them off at around 3pm.

Had them all evening here, I've never known Halloween to be a fireworks event? We've had the odd one here and there for a week or so but tonight there's been a lot. Poor dog is demented, and neighbours have just had a moan about the dog barking - I have sedation for her for sat and sun but didn't expect so many tonight and I don't want to sedate her that often anyway! A home made thunder blanket didn't work either, she just tried to rip it off. It's 10.30 and they're still going off.... The damned things need to be banned for all except organised displays because it's getting ridiculous now.

As for ... Diwali

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