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??

They certainly should be off the streets and restricted to two weekends, before 11. Or exception for NY. It's pretty obvious if you are letting fireworks off outside that time! There are laws (by) like this aren't there already. You are fairly restricted by laws when buying your own.

Not allowed to let off in public places and so on.

Yes they should be only available for organised display and they should be silent!
I think the Chinese invented them and they were silent then?

Totally agree nothing worse than being woken by fireworks

Shriek, I can't believe you think fireworks let off in peoples gardens are no louder than slamming a wheelie bin lid! That is just ridiculous. Some of them sound like bombs and that is not an exaggeration. My windows sometimes shake with them and they drown out the tv. The tv that is pretty loud anyway because DH is hard of hearing.

A friend has just posted on facebook that this is now the ELEVENTH night of fireworks. It's not even bonfire night yet for God's sake. Her poor dog is a complete mess, not eating, refusing to go in the garden, panting like crazy, shaking and shaking. She has tried everything - supposed calming plug ins, calming cd's, desensitisation cd's, playing music as loud as she dare, nutracalm tablets. Even when the fireworks end the dog is stressed for hours afterwards. Last night my friend could not go to bed as her dog was in such a state.

She has had to resort to diazepam which has literally knocked the poor dog out. I guess she will have to use that tomorrow, Sunday, Monday and probably the whole of next week, maybe longer if the morons have enough money. Sedating an animal like that cannot be a good thing.

Unless some way can be found to stop people setting them off for weeks on end and the really loud ones are not sold to the general public then sorry only organised displays should be allowed

Shriek, yes there are laws about times fireworks can be let off etc. Try phoning the police at 1am to report fireworks being let off and see how they respond though.

As well as keeping a record of the days and times fireworks were let off last year I also logged all the times they were let off after 11am with 101. Didn't make any difference though as I knew it wouldn't

I think they should only be let off at licensed displays. Kids get their hands on them and it’s just dangerous.

A couple of years ago some little shits we’re launching them directly at my elderly neighbours house. 5 firework sellers have popped up within a 10 minute walk of my house.

It’s irresponsible. I like fireworks, but they should be for displays only, not in the public’s hands.

11 successive nights!! Bloody hell.
This: ^The law says you must not set off or throw fireworks (including sparklers) in the street or other public places.
You must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except for:^
^Bonfire Night, when the cut off is midnight
New Year’s Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 1am^

It should definitely include restrictions to weekends!

.has ddog sufferer tried thunder vest?

I absolutely hate seeing terrified ddogs, and I see so many of them, more and more with all the rescues, they are living hell, its horrible. Sometimes sedation is the only way.
There definitely needs to be more recovery for these ddogs.

Agree OP, my pets are terrified....

As above there are laws but they aren’t working and the police don’t care at all.

Bah humbug. I love our friends’ annual bonfire party in their garden. So much better than the organised displays... no having to get there early to find parking, walking and standing in crowds of hundreds of people, stressing about not losing the kids, kids moaning cos they’re bored standing waiting, kids moaning cos I won’t by them light-up-tat, shuffling away in the crowds at the end, gridlock in the parking field as everyone leaves at once...

I do get the arguments you’re all making, but think it would be a bloody shame.

Dragon same. Many can't cope with those massive crowds. We have many dangerous things to deal with in life, but to stop something with such huge appeal to so many who are doing no harm.

Well actually I think it's more of a shame that so many people and animals are terrified by deeply inconsiderate people who insist on letting off stupid explosives just because they look pretty for half a second.

Then again I've just had to phone an ambulance for my elderly neighbour who was so scared by the massive fireworks the absolute cunt across the road was letting off he fell and has been taken into hospital. He's 98, and (I think) was having flashbacks to the war because the utter bellend was letting off display rated (bragging on facebook) fireworks.

Ban the whole fucking lot. I can't wait to read the stories of people's cars and houses being set on fire by them again.

Fireworks in the wrong hands can be dangerous - my friend’s fiancé was driving home many years ago and someone let off a random firework towards his car, it hit the car and in his panic at that moment his car ended up leaving the road and hitting a lamppost. He was hospitalised for a week due to the injuries he sustained.

@QuestionableMouse I sincerely hope the dickheads who had no problem in this instance receive their Karma! Inconsiderate bastards! 😡

Poor guy. I hope he's OK. That's so sad and the guy who went off road as a result. Who are these fucking dicks!! They are arsenists and police should be called.

Absolutely agree- I find it so strange that they are readily available to buy in supermarkets! Why? I also wonder who is liable for joe bloggs firework malfunctioning in a neighbours face etc? I know in Australia they’re not available to buy for general public, only licensed events companies.

I have 3 petrified dogs. I think the younger two is learnt behaviour. But we have tried everything, they’ve been medicated by vets, plug ins, wraps, vests. They all have their preferred space spaces now but even with the TV up loud they hear them. One sniffs the air before he goes outside and would rather wiz on the step than go any further. The problem where I live is idiots setting them off during the day, at random intervals through out the night. I expect to be cautious at night but when people are being so irresponsible my dogs are on edge 24/7.

We seem to have had less of them on our housing estate this year blocks of flats with car parks and a couple of small patches of grass Where i live went full service for Universal Credit in October last year.

There needs to be an issue raised with the police to enforce the law properly, but yes, there is all sorts of dangerous activity going on as a result of police in crisis

Op - I agree with you completely !!!!!!

I am not British and this is one of the many things that completely baffles and annoys me... in many other countries you need a special permit for fireworks.

Also, how do people afford them? They are quite expensive.

It's been passed on to the police. Looks like a broken hip from falling. I just wish I'd got there a bit sooner and I might have been able to prevent it. (I'd been in the shower and didn't hear them until I came out.)

Yep agreed. We spend all year safeguarding our kids, keeping them away from the cooker, candles, fires etc. Then one weekend every year we encourage them to run around waving red hot sparking pokers and set off unpredictable explosives that can randomly change direction.
There was a fire in a neighbour’s front garden last year caused by a firework landing on cardboard; we didn’t even know if it was meant to be there for a while!