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?

Bless you OP.

Some things in life are definitely frustrating to say the least, Firework time of year (basically October to February round here) is one of those things that lots of people will agree are annoying as hell.

But you know the answer here, people have little/no control over where they land so it's just one of those things you need to learn to live with.

You could go and accuse someone of doing this, of either being careless or dangerous but at the very best you'll get an apology while you could create some kind of neighbourly feud.

These neighbours may not have been the most courteous over the weekend but do the right thing and dispose of this and leave it at that. We can't control how others behave but we can control our reaction to it.

@SellmeyourMLMcrap I accept they have no control of where it lands and absolutely don't think it was malicious. More frustrated that people appear to not think things through clearly it will go somewhere.

I won't go around just sign the petition and hope the law changes soon.

I know it doesn't look it, but it is spent. That is what they look like. When they come down, they are so light there's no force if they land on you. And yes, I know that from experience!

If you came round to my house with a rocket that you think was from my house. I'd think you were a bit weird. I'd do Penguins of Madagascar- 'Smile and wave boys smile and wave'

Oh the drama....

You are so right OP, I mean if a small wounded badger was playing cards in the back garden with a hedgehog and this fell from above it could have decapitated them and wounded the local orphans 6 doors down. Not to mention Beatrice's fish in the tank would have sustained quite the fright from the tremble of the water in house number 32.

Won't people think of the children.....!!

@MinnieMouseMaze I didn't call you unhinged. I said you will look unreasonable and unhinged if you go around and talk to a neighbour about a firework that may or may not be theirs and over which they gave no control either way appearing in your garden. That isn't stupid, it's a warning to pick you battles and about how you may be perceived. That's what I would think if you appeared at my door. so no need to call me stupid as my comment wasn't. Don't have a go at someone for perceived insults and then insult them.

Nobody can predict where a firework will land. It's just one of those things.

This is too petty an issue to fall out with your new neighbours about.

Yes, letting off fireworks in a residential area is a bit antisocial, but they have no control over where it landed and the firework was spent when it landed (that's how rockets work).

What would you hope to achieve by doing what you propose?

@ReceptacleForTheRespectable that they'll
Think about it and not bother next year?

Anyway point made. I shall bin it and keep my thoughts to myself.

I would think you were a total loon. And I think fireworks should only be for private displays.

That wont happen though. They'll just think of you as the neighbour who has a problem with them doing entirely legal things in their own garden. These are new neighbours - why sour the relationship?

I don't personally use fireworks in my garden, but I also have no problem with others doing so as long as it doesn't go on too late at night etc. The spent firework is just litter - no different to a crisp packet blowing into the garden. It's spent, so just bin it.

Honestly, it amazes me what trivial things people are prepared to fall out with neighbours over. We recently parked our van outside our neighbour's house (legally parked, not blocking their access or anything like that), because our drive was having work done on it (digging a new drainage pipe & retarmacing). The layout of the road is such that there isn't any road outside our own house to park it on without blocking the entrance to someone's drive. It was obviously temporary (she could see we had building work happening), and was in nobody's way. Yet my neighbour complained on the basis that she could see the van from her window.

We were polite and moved it further down the street, but it was still parked on the road outside someone's house. I'm not sure where else she thought we could put it?

I'm going to be living in this house a long time, and I will always think of her as the arsey neighbour who made a fuss over nothing. Don't be that person.

Gawd.
Remember when you were a kid?
Did you enjoy the fireworks?
Did you ever think you would turn into the sort of person that complains that a firework went into their garden, on the grounds that it could have been, but wasnt, live and could have been, but wasnt, picked up by a child who was already in bed?
Learn to embrace life like you did when you were a kid.
Also, you are being ridiculous
Its once a year. Look out of your window at the pretty colours and smile

It is a spent shell, could have come from any direction, no harm done. You may find more are let off locally tomorrow or next weekend. Perhaps you could speak to your neighbours next autumn to limit the number of displays or coordinate on a particular date, but you cannot reasonably insist on none.

If people want to set off fireworks they have every right to do so. You returning a firework to them won’t make them think twice about it and will just make you look odd...
It could literally have come from anywhere.
It’s not like they fall to earth with the force they went up with, they just fall.
Lighten up a little.

I don't get how you think the firework wasn't spent when it landed in your garden

There'll be spent fireworks everywhere on Wednesday morning, just as there always is on the 6th November.

Have you logged it with 101?

This is such a non event - I can't believe how much of a fuss you're making - just put it in the bin

I wouldn’t be happy either OP. I think people shouldn’t have fireworks at home or if they do, they should do so only if they have a huge garden and can keep them away from other properties.

I wouldn’t go round though.

Our next door neighbour was letting off lots of fireworks on Sunday night.
Next morning, there were lots of remnants in our garden plus a red powder all over our garden table, patio and bins....it was a right bloody mess!
I doubt there was any meds in their garden!

I wouldn't have minded one firework landing in our garden!

The one in yours would have burned out before it landed I would think.

I think this makes my top ten of absolutely ridiculous over reactions to nothing!

Its a spent firework - put it in the bin!!!

If a neighbour came to me with a spent firework, they would forever be that neighbour.
Although I'd take the stick. I collect them for my neighbour when I walk the dog. He uses them for his dalihas.