Sick of fucking fireworks

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I know, I know they look pretty and they’re legal and ‘fun’.

But ffs my street sounds like a warzone. Neighbour couple doors down has had them on several times since the weekend, in his garden. Currently got them
on again, sounds like it’s right outside my window. I’m just waiting for one to hit my roof (paranoid obvs, but was in the local papers last year)

He’s not been the only one either.

I wish they’d just restrict them to licensed venues already.

Fucking hate them.

Yes please, already posted a thread after someone put one through my window last night 

Hate them. So fed up with the wretched thing but even more fed up with the people saying “oh don’t be a spoilsport, think of the kids, it’s just a bit of fun, you misery guts, ITS JUST ONE NIGHT”

It’s not one fucking night.

The bastards round here start in October. Go mad for it in November, sounds like a bloody war zone the weekends either side of the 5th November and goes on intermittently. Till New Years Eve when it just goes mad. Not to m3ntion all the birthdays etc during the year.

I really do t mind the little to an candles, showers and Catherine wheels. Even some of the rockets aren’t to bad. But the assholes round here seem to be letting off bloody mortars😡
The explosion reverberates in your chest, it’s ridiculous and they are letting them off really close to homes. Yeah cheers mate, when it says place it x amount of metres from YOUR home and family it doesn’t mean light the fucking thing 2ft from MY window.

My kid is autistic with sensory processing, we have weeks of anxiety as soon as it gets dark as she doesn’t know if there will be bangs.

my elderly neighbour has an utter fear (crying, shouting for help etc) as she is frightened they’ll set house alight and she needs a lot of help to move, , my pets can’t cope and to top it all I went to school with a lad who’d been shoved into a bonfire “as a joke” (horrific scarring) and a girl who had a massive scar on her leg where a kid had thwacked her with a sparkler.

Just do public displays, or silent fireworks now please. Especially as the feral brats seem to think shoving through letter boxes, throwing 5hem at cars/people etc is oh so much fun 🙄😠😡

Ooooh feeling a bit giddy from standard night on my soap box for so long, better climb down😳

That’s terrible Ollivander84 I didn’t see your thread. Hope everything was ok

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3416289-bastard-fireworks

Yadnbu- I have a child with high functioning autism and she is absolutely terrified of them making bedtime the last few weeks traumatic.
I've given in tonight as I'm just too tired and have just set up the camp bed in her room. I wish they would fuck off!

Our neighbours are celebrating Diwali by recreating a full size fire works display in their (very) small back garden. Needless to say the cat is less than impressed!

Thank God you and cat are ok Ollivander84 it’s terrifying to think how close a call that was

I hate them. My dog isn't actually bothered. So thick skinned he doesn't notice them, but I know they cause a lot of distress for humans and animals alike.

I don't like them but understand on fireworks night. Somehow it's been over a week of fireworks including our neighbours setting off loads

I've seen fireworks in Poundland

It is missing it down here I Lo don. A nice, freezing driving rain that has sent all but the most dogged fireworkers inside.
The odd pop and bang still happening bit it sounded like scud missiles and bazooka launchers going of an hour ago.

I said. It's pissing down.

Is there any reason they have to bang? Genuinely don't understand why they can't just make pretty patterns in the sky. Thus leaving pets and children blissfully ignorant that they are going off at all.

There have been fireworks where I live every night since 27th October. Has been the same for several years. I am sick and tired of them.

I have a dog that is scared of them. Sometimes they can start as early as 3pm (what morons let fireworks off before it is even dark) and can go on until after midnight. My dog doesn't want to go in the garden if they are going off.

What really annoys me is that my dog was not scared of fireworks in the slightest until a couple of years ago one went off close by while I was walking him. It was about 4pm so still light and not particularly close to bonfire night so I had no reason to think anyone would be having any fireworks.

Fuckers have started again.
Can't believe it.
They didn't get enough kicks last night?

UK laws really need to catch up, I live in a developing country and they are illegal on all but 2 nights if the year (bonfire night and dewali) but even then gave to be a licensed display you can’t just buy them in the shops that’s nuts. Most people are very anti them now and there is pressure to get organised ones cancelled, I haven't heard a single firework this year.

They have just started here again, have the last 5 nights not been ENOUGH!!!
Hate them as does the dog.

@mydogisthebest yes, it takes a special kind of idiot to let fireworks off in the day 

I'm in India at the moment and I feel so sorry for the stray dogs and cows in the streets. They must be terrified! It has been non stop since yesterday morning and it is still going off now.

Yep started here again too - constant since 5pm ☹️

Police or PCOS are not likely to be able to curb the enthusiasm? Is it nuisance noise?
It's legal to let off the fireworks but is the noise they create a possible breach of other stuff.
I am not a legal genius obviously. Kinda feel8ng my way here

I agree. The normal ones my cat is fine with. The big Canon type ones were so bad last night she was trying to crawl behind the sofa yowling in terror. She only stopped when cuddled on my chest with a throw completely over her for added 'hiding' . Then she went spark out with her head on my boob exhausted by the stress of it all.

The police are not really interested and I do understand that they have more important things to deal with.

Last year I phoned 101 every time there were fireworks after 11pm. The FAB firework group ask people to log any incidents with the police to show just how much of a problem there is.

I did feel guilty though keep phoning and this year I haven't bothered

I don't do this too often, but tonight I am having a small Valium. I just can't lie here tense and flinching for the umpteenth night. Then to.orrow I am going to start concerted efforts to support restrictions on sales of fireworks.
Not much I can do tonight and I reckon the weekend might be frisky am hoping it's going to miss down.

YANBU. In previous years the constant whistles and bangs seemed all but a mild irritant but this year, it's truly doing my head in!! Started well before Halloween and still going on now. Expect there'll be another weekend too of it! It's too much. If it was just literally the one night of 5th Nov, it would be tolerable but it's not. Am signing the petition.

In previous years the constant whistles and bangs seemed all but a mild irritant

I’m not sure if it’s just that I’m more irritable or whether it just wasn’t as common to set them off willy nilly, as I don’t remember hating them this much.

Last year there were animals tortured with them here, so maybe that’s why it’s been on my mind a bit more. It didn’t cross my mind in the past what else they could be used for. It’s just gives idiots more ammo.

I read another thread today where one landed on the posters roof😡

Had a few more set off tonight around here, too. Hopefully something becomes of the petition.

Hope ollivander84 is feeling better, too.