Neighbours having massive firework display

[Cole24]

AIBU to think that my neighbours should have at least given us a heads up that they were putting on a massive firework display?

We live in a small village with one housing estate which is quite densely populated, but it's a very quiet area. We recently had new neighbours move into the house next door (it's a semi-detached property) and we haven't seen or spoken to them yet.

Tonight they are having a very long and noisy firework display, it's been going on for at least 45 minutes and it's been constant the entire time. As I mentioned the property is semi-detached and the gardens are very small, it doesn't seem safe to have a firework display so close to the house, as a result it's very close to our house too.

We have a 5 month old baby who's been woken by them and a young cat who's absolutely terrified. Our area is very much a pet friendly place with most of the neighbours owning cats or dogs and so fireworks aren't popular around here.

Since they're right next door in such close quarters, with the fireworks being unreasonably close to our house, AIBU to think that they could have let us know by knocking the door or dropping a note in?

If you read this far then thank you!

YANBU. Just had drunken knobheads doing the same back on to us - letting off large fireworks in a small terraced yard! It was like they were outside our back door - cat is terrified.

Wait until the morning and your garden is littered with their crappy rockets. Get up early and fling them back over the fence

Really??

dog owners round here can’t do you the courtesy of picking their dogs shit up off the pavements. But we are expected to consider their dogs at other times?

given how much pets hate it i think it's really contemptible behaviour.

And yet not a bit contemptible for those pets to terrify my daughter 365 days of the year and apparently my job as a parent is to teach her not to be afraid of them.

I’d be more upset t I wasn’t invited

It's bonfire night YABU

Yabu. It's bonfire night and they're not doing anything illegal. The world doesn't stop just because you have a baby.

What difference would letting you know in advance have made anyway?

I’d have made sure I was in:

A) to get the pets in and look after them, and

B) in case of a stray firework landing on my roof, bouncing off and setting fire to my garden furniture, so I can put the fire out before the whole house goes up.

Btw, this did happen to me a few years ago. Very fortunate we were in. I’d never go out if i knew neighbours were planning fireworks.

It was to be expected being that its 5th November surely?!
Okay, i'd be pissed off if it was 4th March or whatever but it happens on the same day every year. It will happen next year on 5th November as well. You should have been prepared i'm afraid.

No, I have shit neighbours but a largely lovely life. As I choose to live in a terraced house where my neighbours are entitled to go about their lawful business then I just have to put up with it. No doubt we do things that irritate them too, like when my teen son and his friends play football in the garden up until 9pm in the summer. Or when the leaves from our tree blow into their garden. It's live and let live isn't it?

They aren't setting off fireworks at midnight on 14th March are they?

Noone on this thread should ever visit the Netherlands at New Year's.

Well we have many people here in NL lose eyes and hands each year and you needn’t think all Dutch people think it’s just fine and dandy. There are already firework-free areas and I think it will only increase in years to come. There’s increasing support for a ban.

Pets should be kept indoors on Bonfire Night regardless as you never know who will be having fireworks.

I don't think YABU to be irritated but at the same time they can do what they like in their garden, they aren't breaking any laws, it's Bonfire Night so not totally unexpected that they might have fireworks, and they won't have informed you because it's Bonfire Night so it's not totally unexpected that they might have fireworks.

And also op posted before 8pm. The fireworks are still going strong all around me in neighbouring houses here! Thank God I don't live in a quiet village where any sort of celebration is frowned on.

I don't think they need to let you know. We all know what day it is so it's common sense that we might be in for a loud night.

The sooner the ban comes in the better.

Yabu OP, its like the Somme round here. Its bonfire night, theres always loud bangs.

I could have written this! We have had the same, the bangs were so loud they made the house shake. Sounded like the windows might blow. Also trying to get a baby down and felt the bang sat in my feeding chair. I have an anxious dog who hasn’t been bothered by fireworks until tonight. We live in a semi with relatively small gardens. I can’t believe the proximity to such fireworks is safe.

Dammit, the chickens and horses are just refusing to come into the house away from the bangs - they deserve everything they get, ignorant fuckers!

(thats the pets that are ignorant fuckers)

@ffswhatnext or just a rural Airbnb. Or even ask MN. I can report no fireworks in the proximity tonight (only some heard in the distance, very quiet and definitely wouldn’t scare a cat or wake a baby). It’s always like this here. If anyone is planning on escaping for NYE feel free to PM.

I've heard fireworks in the distance for days and occasionally seen some up in the sky.

It's a one off, I wouldn't let it worry you.

@Velveteenfruitbowl
Rural areas have fireworks.
Tonight your area is quiet. But you could never have guaranteed this earlier today. So what would have been the purpose of asking for a quiet area? Op could have mentioned hers as quiet right up until that first firework was set.

It's Nov 5th. Of course fireworks are going off in people's gardens. It wouldn't occur to me to warn my neighbours. We never did when we had them, and our neighbours didn't warn us when they did. When we weren't having them, we'd watch theirs from the bedroom window.

I've had cats all my life and never known one scared of fireworks.

Whether or not one approves of fireworks at all, is another thread. But I think expecting to be warned on Bonfire night is unreasonable.

Given you have a young baby, it's a bit shitty not to have said anything.