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

628 replies

FatNoMorePat · 02/11/2018 00:53

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??

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mydogisthebest · 08/11/2018 11:07

Gingaaarghpussy, yes I don't mind organised displays. I try and check the start and end times so I can have the tv or music loud enough to drown the fireworks out.

Having to make sure one of us is around every day is a pain. We were meant to be going out Tuesday evening for a fairly important appointment. Just as we were about to leave fireworks started so we couldn't go

FishCanFly · 08/11/2018 11:11

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

SummerGems · 08/11/2018 11:12

The fireworks at the back of my house were so loud last night I couldn’t let the dog out. He’s not afraid of them when inside but they were on the green behind the house so almost in our space iyswim. There is absolutely no reason why those kinds of fireworks should be on random sale to the general public, or why anyone needs to buy them.

Organised displays are fine. Random letting off of fireworks so loud they shake houses is not, not even on bonfire night.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 08/11/2018 11:18

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

SummerGems · 08/11/2018 11:27

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

Taylia · 08/11/2018 13:17

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.

Ollivander84 · 08/11/2018 13:21

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

mydogisthebest · 08/11/2018 19:53

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

tinstar · 08/11/2018 21:27

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?

Shitlandpony · 08/11/2018 21:41

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.

Shitlandpony · 08/11/2018 21:43

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.

LostontheWestway · 08/11/2018 21:53

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

mydogisthebest · 09/11/2018 09:49

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.

Shitlandpony · 09/11/2018 11:47

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.

Shitlandpony · 09/11/2018 11:48

*saw

overandunder9 · 10/11/2018 20:09

Yet another night of it here. Angry

tinstar · 10/11/2018 20:13

And here. My rescue is behind the sofa again 🙁

TheCatThatGlared · 10/11/2018 21:46

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.

TheCatThatGlared · 10/11/2018 21:48

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.

Shitlandpony · 10/11/2018 21:56

Still going here...

mydogisthebest · 11/11/2018 08:48

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

tinstar · 11/11/2018 18:35

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

Thesearmsofmine · 12/11/2018 20:10

They are going off now. Every single night.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 12/11/2018 20:11

What, again?

That’s bad.

mydogisthebest · 13/11/2018 09:37

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