Fireworks landing in my garden

[MinnieMouseMaze]

Hi all, I need some perspective on this. We moved in a few months ago and people on this street had larger gardens than those in our old house, roughly 30-40 meters. Unfortunately last night some neighbours about 5 houses down set off quite a few fireworks which were loud and annoying but mostly as I don't agree with fireworks for private use and should be display only. My personal view though and I accept I can't have the same opinion as everyone. However I've gone in my garden this morning and found a complete fire work in my garden presumably used as it is open. This has really annoyed me, I could have been in my garden or my two year old though granted it is was late at night but that doesn't feel like the point.

AIBU to go and knock on their door very politely and say this landed it my garden and they need to be more careful? I don't want to annoy anyone being new neighbours and all but feel this is the exact reason people should not set them off in their garden?

You're being petty it's bonfire night, sorry.
It’s not bonfire night until tomorrow.
Remember Remember the 5th of November.
HTH

YANBU to be pissed off, fireworks are a massive PITA to the average person and a huge danger to wildlife. I think you know there is little you can do about it thought. The quicker the government tightens sales on explosives the better.

OP I found lots in my garden on Sunday, and my furniture cover now has some lovely singe marks. The poor people who back onto the wankers holding the display called the fire brigade as the hedge was taking a battering from the sparks and they worried about the fire risk (they wouldn't come out until it was actually on fire, sadly).

If you feel strongly, there's a petition to sign at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/276425 as a lot of people believe the few have spoilt it for the many by dangerous and constant use.

I mean someone could have been the garden and hit by it?

but they weren't.

😂 I thought I'd heard it all

OP you said it was late at night so why would you, your child , or anyone else be out in the garden ? Hardly the height of Summer .

Though I agree with you on the sale of fireworks . I swear they are far louder than in my young days.

Read some sad things on FB today about animals that have died from fright . In my World, if I was in charge, they would be sold ONLY on 5th November and for Chinese New Year, Diwali, etc but ONLY on the day. Not before and not after . It would help .

As mentioned you can't conclusively prove who it was.

If the neighbours dropped litter on the street and it blew into your garden, would you take it round to them complaining? I see spent firework rockets as basically the same thing.

Worrying over nothing.

Read some sad things on FB today about animals that have died from fright

It's funny but similar posts are appearing on so many different facebook pages and yet there isn't one iota of proof at all.

I agree you should talk to the neighbour. They are very lucky the firework didn’t explode in your garden

Is there not ?

Two were newspaper stories with photos of said rabbit and the owner of the puppy holding it etc . It was the owner of the puppy who started a petition I signed.

Besides whether true or not why should animals suffer this for weeks on end every year ? I believe it to be true, why wouldn't I

You will sound massively unreasonable and slightly unhinged if you go round about this. It is a small issue and you can't decide where fireworks land. Plus you don't even know that it's there's.

Pick your battles. Disputes with neighbours are stressful at best and can be a nightmare at worst. If you sour relations over this and then have something actually important to raise with them, you will be making that conversation very difficult or impossible.

It's not a live firework, it's clearly already gone off. Put it in the bit and get on with your day. Also, big organised events have no control either of where the (much bigger and higher up) fireworks land.

It is a small issue and you can't decide where fireworks land.

It's not a small issue to set off a small explosive without knowing where it will land. It's quite an antisocial thing to do.

A spent firework? Why does that matter? There was one in my garden too and I've put it in the bin. In the summer I also found a football and a (very broken) remote control helicopter. The helicopter also went in the bin and the football I gave back to the neighbour who it came from. If you have neighbours sometimes you get random crap in your garden.

@WhentheRabbitsWentWild well I actually work out of my office in the garden and recently have been working later a night to make up hours so not impossible for me at least to be out there

Is it that easy to tell where a rocket will land? Surely it depends on how high it goes and how much wind there is going on.

Just put it in the bin, OP. it's a common hazard of this time of year. If you've got a pond I'd recommend you cover it with a tarp in the evenings for a week, otherwise, keep on keeping on.

Is their not ?

Not the ones locally to me no.

Several dogs have apparently bolted and been hit by cars but no pictures of the dogs have appeared nor have the owners or car drivers commented.

@MiniMum97 do you ever consider whether your words are hurtful? Unhinged suggests a mental health problem. Who an earth do you think you are? Don't be so bloody stupid.

It's not a small issue to set off a small explosive without knowing where it will land. It's quite an antisocial thing to do.

But it's not illegal and OP has no right to police her neighbours letting off fireworks.

@Boom45 clearly it wasn't spent when it landed in my garden and that's my issue. Could have hurt someone as a live firework.

@Boom45 clearly it wasn't spent when it landed in my garden and that's my issue. Could have hurt someone as a live firework.

Clearly it was a rocket it lands when it's spent!

You weren't in the garden, no harm was done, don't sweat the small stuff.

But if it landed in your garden it must have been spent in order to travel between your neighbour's garden and your own? Unless you're suggesting a dog brought it, or the neighbour threw it?