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!

Bonfire night is the one night of the year I would not expect a warning.

I’m sorry but you expect all your neighbours to give you advance warning they will be having fireworks in their gardens on bonfire night?

Advance warning OP, they might be having a New Years party in a couple of months

As a kid, I remember having displays that went on for a long time. One year it was around an hour.
We weren't rich. Rather than having a bunch of people putting on their own things, people would club together and do one together. Everyone put in what they could afford. And they'd either be done in the middle of the road, public square or similar, or someone's back garden.
Everyone's already eaten and if not they can still watch.

If it were to be only licensed public events, that is the type I would support.

Licensed public ones at the moment are paid for and often exclude people because they are priced out and I can understand why people want to give that experience of the close-up. Yea they can watch them from a distance, but although it's nice, it's not the same.

Who knows. Other neighbours might be thinking finally, someone has had the balls to break the silence. Must ask if they want to do a joint thing next year.

So most people on here goes an knocks at there neighbours to tell them there setting fireworks of on bomb fire night? Any other night then yes fair enough a heads up but a night when it's expected no. Been going of all night by me an still going now prob will till 11/12ish my LG is scared stiff but finally settled an sleep did I expect every neighbour to knock an tell me there doing fireworks erm no 😂🎆

It's tricky when most of MN reckon they don't answer the door unless they are expecting someone.

Bomb fire night that's brilliant!

Bastards.

YANBU. I feel your pain. Make sure you throw the rocket detritus back into their garden the next day. Selfish Feckers.

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Fireworks on the 5th of November! What were the odds!

YABU.

It's bonfire night.

You haven't gone and spoken to them yet so they haven't had chance to mention it to you, even if they wanted to.

It would piss me off tbh.
Having all these random people disturbing me, to let me know about fireworks. And I would honestly be asking them who is setting them off. Wouldn't want someone with such little sense doing it. And if it didn't come with an invite that would piss me off more. Why tell me then? How strange.

YABU it is bonfire night.
Before Mumsnet it wouldn't have occurred to me that people would expect to be told this.
Now I might mention it in case of pets being out.

All fireworks should be be banned.
In fact all neighbours should be banned.
In fact everything should be banned.

HTH

Yanbu, they've been thoughtless.

Honestly people are so fucking precious. Can you not just suck it up for one night?

Because fireworks are actually fucking dangerous, and can quite easily set fire to stuff in built up areas, as I found out.

It’s pretty shitty having to sit through an adjoining house’s fireworks when the year before they fired one onto your house causing a fire. And didn’t come and apologise (it’s a block of flats so no one owned up when i went round)

People are stupid and inexperiences around fireworks. It is very easy to cause real injury.

(Also said as someon who worked in a& e for a long time)

Erm...Its 5th November..

I think anyone having fireworks in their garden in a residential estate are extremely selfish and they should have the common courtesy to have mentioned it to you.

Last year our neighbour was lighting them within 2 metres of my car! I was livid and moved the car and told him to get the used rockets cleared from my garden before he left for work the next day, underlay selfish. Go and watch a display or even take them to the middle of nowhere and let them off rather than in a housing estate.

I would ban all garden fireworks and just have organised displays where they take health and safety seriously . Too many idiots around who forget how much damage fireworks can do if the right precautions are not taken. I don't have pets but I know lots can get scared so if someone is planning a big display it is common courtesy to let neighbours know so they can keep them in.

I agree with those who find it odd that you needed telling that there would be fireworks on 5th November. It's hardly a surprise, surely?

Pets should be kept in whether your neighbours have told you they are having fireworks or not. I've spent the evening (and the weekend evenings) on the sofa with a dog and 2 cats.

I think YABU.
They're new so they're not going to know that most people in the area have pets and avoid fireworks.
You say you haven't seen them or spoken to them, so would they even know you have a baby?
Last but not least it's bonfire night, of all the nights of the year to expect fireworks surely this would be it.

It’s bloody bonfire night. Stop being such a killjoy.

Meh, it’s bonfire night, you’ll get over it.

Yes I would be annoyed. I have a large conservatory that cost £26k several years ago. One year there was debris from fireworks all over the roof from the night before. The roof is 3ply and it had burned through 2 of the layers. Conservatory ruined.

I think go to an organised display. Most gardens are too small and people don't adhere to the rules. I was pleased that Sainsburys did not sell them this year. It is not just one night. It seems to go on from Halloween until the New Year.

I don't understand the "but it's bonfire night" whining.

Yes, it is the 05th November, but it's also a Tuesday, fireworks have been going off all weekend, and more people will likely have more displays this weekend. It's not that obvious that some rude neighbour decides to have a massive display on a Tuesday night.

What are people supposed to do? Put people and animals who need it on medication every single evening for 2 weeks?

Would it kill a neighbour to give a bit of warning? Some people are so selfish and inconsiderate, it's unreal.

The same goes for New Year's Eve, not every single household has a firework display, how are people supposed to guess their neighbours will?

OP I sympathise since I have a petrified dog. But November 5th is not the time to complain but prepare. Perhaps you could visit your new neighbours, welcome them and ask them for a bit of warning in future.

However for all of you saying it's a little bit of fun, it's not when it runs from Halloween and Diwali through the following weekend and you can guarantee more home fireworks this Friday and Saturday for those who couldn't do November 5th today. Then there's NYE. And if you live near a wedding venue especially in rural parts, endless Fridays and Saturdays.

I love fireworks myself. But they only came in during the 20C - otherwise it was bonfires and effigies. It was almost always civic displays. Interestingly they stopped for a bit after WW1 because so many people suffered from the sound of explosions.