To believe that fireworks shouldn’t be available to the general public?

[FatNoMorePat]

Fireworks at this time of night!!!

I’m partial to a sparkler don’t get me wrong, but I just don’t agree with fireworks being readily available for joe public. Particularly when people let them off after 11pm!

I’m not saying get rid of them all together but make it stricter so they’re only let off in safe environments by people who’ve had adequate training who then clean everything up and it’s all done and dusted before 11pm.

Am I getting old??

[Thesearmsofmine]

Same here @Shitlandpony just a few last night.

As I said at the start of the thread, if you live in an area where people are only setting them off for a few days each year and at suitable times that is great, unfortunately where I am they are set off during the day and in the middle of the night at any time during the year. The police don’t care.

[Shitlandpony]

*door

[Shitlandpony]

Can’t believe this thread is still going, we had fireworks again last night. I am afraid I started swearing out of the back foot.
Wasn’t someone on this thread telling us to stop whinging because they would be over last Monday for sure?

[mydogisthebest]

We actually had a whole evening with no fireworks! I am praying that is the end of them until Christmas which, if it is the case, would be much better than the previous two years.

Me and DH are hoping to go out tonight to the thing we had to cancel last Tuesday because some prat was setting off fireworks. Fingers crossed

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

What, again?

That’s bad.

[Thesearmsofmine]

They are going off now. Every single night.

[tinstar]

And again ..... more fireworks tonight. And my dog is behind the sofa YET AGAIN

[mydogisthebest]

Yes we had more fireworks going off last night too. They have been every night since the end of October.

[Shitlandpony]

Still going here...

[TheCatThatGlared]

I also 'love' the debris that the fireworks leave behind. It's strewn everywhere. When there's rightly so much focus on the environment how the hell is that allowed? There's wooden sticks and plastic caps everywhere. It's no different from throwing litter in the street or into people's gardens.

[TheCatThatGlared]

There's some arsehole setting them off again and my dogs are terrified. They can't get a break. We've had them for over a week before Bonfire night and even now they're still going off.

We live near a farm too but no one seems to give a fuck about the farm animals or the wildlife. I'd have absolutely no sympathy if the idiot who is setting them off now was hit by one. Perhaps then they wouldn't find them so amusing.

A friend had one put through her letterbox. She was out but her dogs weren't. Thankfully the damage was comparatively small but she could have lost her home and dogs.

[tinstar]

And here. My rescue is behind the sofa again 🙁

[overandunder9]

Yet another night of it here.

[Shitlandpony]

*saw

[Shitlandpony]

Your poor friend, I have been in tears a lot too, one of my dc is very affected as well as the animals. I was walking the dogs this morning in a local wood, it’s full of deer, foxes etc. In the woods we say three empty boxes of fireworks, just dumped and a holder for rockets in the car park.
So some idiots have been setting them off there, you can’t walk there, you have to drive as it’s so out of the way.
Some absolute tool above the age of 17 thought that was a good idea.

Looking forward to more tonight as the local schools are doing then this weekend.
I wonder if things might change for next year, never heard of so many dead horses, dogs and humans being hurt.

[mydogisthebest]

Shitlandpony, I have a friend whose dog is absolutely terrified of fireworks. Not just a bit scared but petrified. Over a few years my friend has tried everything and now has to sedate her which she hates doing.

She has had to sedate her for around 2 weeks every evening. After Monday my friend was hoping there would be no more fireworks but, of course, there had been every night. It is a nightmare because friend has no idea what time they will start or end. The drugs take a while to kick in so if fireworks start unexpectedly at 4 she has a panting, drooling, crying, shaking, terrified dog until they do. I have had my friend in tears almost every night on the phone so upset about her dog and worried about her.

[LostontheWestway]

My dog was so frightened by tonight's fireworks that she soiled her bed (she literally shit herself) 

[Shitlandpony]

Ages back, someone said that if you ban them then people will make them. This is absolute bollocks, the average yob who is chucking them around the high st will not be bothered to do that.

I have never known it so bad as this year, we have missing dogs and a dead horse in my area.

[Shitlandpony]

Just checking in to say they are still going tonight. So much for it all being over on Monday. Can’t drug my animals for much longer really.

[tinstar]

YABU. Fireworks available to general public are pretty weak. And you can't ban everything because there are idiots around.

Complete bollocks. Of course you can ban something like fireworks when they cause so much distress. Why ever not?

[mydogisthebest]

Fishcanfly, well if the general public can only buy "weak" fireworks I would hate they could buy anything more powerful.

Those "weak" fireworks often make my windows rattle and I don't live in an old house. They also completely drown out my tv even if I turn it up loud. The ones that make a bang are very loud

[Ollivander84]

First quote for the damage is in. Over £1000 so far... and that's from one firework 😡

[Taylia]

They should be allowed for organised public displays only.
2 public displays the weekend before bonfire night (fri/sat or sat/sun) and 2 displays the weekend after.

Then 2 nights for Diwali.

That’s it none of this every night for several weeks in October and November bollocks.

[SummerGems]

I could care less whether it was Diwali, guy fawks, or whatever other occasion apparently justifies the letting off of explosives.

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

It was Diwali last night, Summer
And yes, fireworks were louder, I wonder if that’s the preferred kind for the occasion.