To be delighted that Sainsbury’s have decided not to sell fireworks this year?

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Now just hoping the other supermarkets follow in due course.

Organised displays are advertised, usually weeks in advance of the event. You can prepare for it. My SIL has a newborn and has already arranged to go to my mum's for the evening with baby because the display in her town is close to her house. My mum had a dog who would absolutely freak the fuck out about fireworks, knowing when they were going to be let off meant she knew when to give him his sleepy pills. If he was still alive today he'd have to be almost permanently tranquilized for about a month.

It's night after night for several weeks around the date, with pet animals getting frantic at hours and days of noise, horses and cattle and sheep panicking and injuring themselves in fields, and I live in a town full of new builds where the gardens are about eight foot square and crowded together, yet people release powerful fireworks to enjoy their firework party and take no responsibility whatsoever for where it goes or what happens after they light the fuse. Usually on people's roofs, into their gardens, onto the cars in the street, into the street itself which is a thoroughfare for an all night shopping centre. So far I've had to rush over and put out one burning on my mother's decking as it hit their window and she was panicking (another went in her pond and killed her fish) and had my car roof damaged by another one landing on it, and had to call the firebrigade/police for kids setting them off in the street and trying to start fires with them.

^ This.

I would have thought organised displays also upset pets? Perhaps even more so, as the fireworks are bigger and louder. If that's the main reason, fireworks should be banned altogether, surely?

But they're usually planned and advertised in advance so people have a warning and can make alternative arrangements for animals and the vulnerable. With random parties, or just idiots setting them off you can't do that. The local pub has a display and they warn the farms in the vicinity, the horses and cattle are moved for that night further away. It's an offence (still I think?) To set off fireworks within so many metres of livestock (including horses) anyway, by the pub warning, they and the local farmers work together.
I take my dogs over the Moors on display nights, with my DB and his dog so they're out of the way. I can book the night off work and do that if I know, but even without the random idiots setting them off in the street at all hours, I have no way of knowing or planning for number 25 having their party on the 3rd, number 26 on the 4th, number 30 on the 6th and so on..... That's when it becomes unmanageable.

Great - hate them

YANBU

I wish fireworks were banned except for organised displays, too antisocial and dangerous in the hands off the general public

They set them off all year round in my neighborhood. Lots of big elaborate Hindu weddings most weekends. The one thing I don't understand is why they set them off during the day too. Anyway, doesn't bother me and thankfully my cat isn't phased either.

When l was with my ex husband, we had a neighbour across the back who decided in October to spend the evening setting off industrial type fireworks. (We found out later that his wife had left him and he had his mates over - all men in their thirties)
l was actually at work, but my husband rang me to say the noise and the smoke were unbelievable. One of our dogs was going mad with terror.
When l got home from my shift after midnight and things had calmed down, we took the dogs out. On our walk, and back home in our garden, we found at least 40 spent rockets. My husband picked the lot up. Then at about 2am, he went over and put the lot through said idiots letterbox.
When we spoke to our near neighbours the next day, they'd all found similar spent rockets in their gardens, so god knows how many there had been.
Strangely enough, it never happened again. l think he got the message.

Sainbos stopping selling won’t make a blind bit of difference.

This. The people throwing fireworks in the street aren't buying them from Sainsbury's or any other supermarket, they are buying them from some dodgy neighbour.

Those who just want a few in the garden will go elsewhere.

BEST NEWS EVER! Hope it’s the beginning of the end of fireworks!

Amen to that. Agree that the vociferousness of anti-firework thinking has grown - but anyone who can't see that this is directly in relation to the fact that any idiot can now buy ones that sound like bombs easily and cheaply is frankly missing the point.

I'm another one firmly in the 'licensed professionals for display purposes only' for anything much above a bloody sparkler. There is no need for it, and certainly not from November to January.

I would have thought organised displays also upset pets? Perhaps even more so, as the fireworks are bigger and louder. If that's the main reason, fireworks should be banned altogether, surely?

But if needed (and believe me, plenty of people have to) you can sedate a pet for one planned night with notice. You can't sedate them for months.

Brilliant news!

Hopefully everyone else will follow suit, and fireworks will not be available to the public.

Only people/companies etc, who are putting on big organised displays should be allowed to have them. No need at all for the general public to have them.

Brilliant! I hope this is the start of banning the sale of all fireworks.

Sainsbury's have reportedly said that the decision was due to a range of reasons, I am not sure that was much more than the bottom line. I can't see fireworks being a big money maker.

They're already going off here.

I almost had a crash last year because someone let one off right over the road.

I'm really grateful to Sainsbury's for this and I sincerely hope it's the beginning of the end for firework sales in the UK. I love fireworks but I will spend from now until the nights get lighter again watching my Husband cower on the floor every time a firework goes off. I have no issue with well publicised, organised events but the people who set them off for any occasion between now and Spring are so selfish. We went through three years of very intensive treatment for my Husbands PTSD and this is his only remaining trigger, and I use trigger in the psychiatric sense not the "boo boo I'm a little upset sense. It's heartbreaking watching my wonderful, strong Husband break down because someone chooses to let explosives off in their gardens. The only things that should be available for the general public to buy are sparklers.

Brilliant idea by Sainsbury's! There are too many idiots nowadays making it unsafe. When my son was 6 months old in his car carrier seat a large group of youths ( idiots) threw a firework 2 metres from his car seat along a row of shops where we had stopped to buy something. I went berserk my hubby picked up my son and ran while I ran the opposite way chasing and going ballistic at the idiots!😡if people want to watch fireworks go to an organised event.

People saying there already going off, thats because it,s Diwali.

Thank you Sainsburys. When bloody useless Johnson and his mates have finished screwing the country perhaps the grown ups could look into looking at a complete ban on sales to the public or at least putting tighter limits on the power of the ones legally allowed to be sold and no more of the licenses for year round sales. Some more police on the streets catching the little buggers setting them off would be nice too. No, lets go back to none on sale to the general public.

It's the right decision and one that should have been made a long time ago. They should absolutely be banned for sale to the public and should only be allowed in official and properly policed and managed displays. Safety and protection of vulnerable people and frightened animals should be and always should have been the priority. Too many incidences of violent arson attacks and assaults on vulnerable people and animals have arisen from misuse of fireworks. Let Sainsburys lead the way and hope that everyone follows suit. Let the government see sense and stop them from being sold to people who might either harm themselves or someone else.

They’re antisocial and very few people use them responsibly.
Utter bollocks

Okay, it's very many years ago that I was a child, but fireworks in people's back gardens were fine then because they didn't sound like you were surrounding by exploding bombs.

Garden fireworks when I was a child were sparklers, Roman candles, Catherine wheels and rockets. Even the rockets were incredibly tame compared to modern fireworks that shoot up into the sky and explode or make that horrible cracking hissing noise.

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It’s not Diwali yet.

I'm really grateful to Sainsbury's for this and I sincerely hope it's the beginning of the end for firework sales in the UK. I love fireworks but I will spend from now until the nights get lighter again watching my Husband cower on the floor every time a firework goes off. I have no issue with well publicised, organised events but the people who set them off for any occasion between now and Spring are so selfish. We went through three years of very intensive treatment for my Husbands PTSD and this is his only remaining trigger, and I use trigger in the psychiatric sense not the "boo boo I'm a little upset sense. It's heartbreaking watching my wonderful, strong Husband break down because someone chooses to let explosives off in their gardens. The only things that should be available for the general public to buy are sparklers.

^ This. lt's not about people being killjoys. lt affects lives.