What's with this fireworks on Halloween nonsense?

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Firework displays all by ours. Sadistic twats terrifying animals. It's not Bonfire Night you stupid pricks.

I’m with you OP - couple with the dreadful
noise and animal torture, there is also a significant amount of air pollution from them!

Replace with light displays, like the drone ones, which can be amazing. No-one needs live explosives to have a good time!

No fireworks here.

Other end if island and same but it was INSANE this evening. Firework overload. My friend has autistic kids and they built a fort under the table with pillows over their heads. Fucking dreadful things.

It’s almost like it’s those nasty people have secretly agreed a week or sk where fireworks are more widely available and people buy them and use them?

I wonder if there is some kind of pattern… like it’s the same time every year?

I grew up in the sixties and we always had fireworks at Halloween. I live in Ireland and we were doing Halloween long before it was fashionable. We dunked for apples and cracked nuts open. We also dressed up but nothing like the type of Halloween costumes you see nowadays. No ghosts witches or vampires.

The sale of fireworks is banned in Ireland unless for an organised licensed event but they've always been available in Northern Ireland so there's always some who will invest in lots and sell them to the idiots who think of no one but themselves. I'm fortunate to live far enough in the countryside that we don't hear any but its upsetting every year to see so many dogs missing after Halloween, all scared by fireworks.

YANBU

Where’s all the money coming from, gives me the rage. I work for local government and the complaints around cost of living payments is through the roof - people forget it’s meant to be for bills, not to blow on fireworks and plastic tat.

It’s so fucking annoying and inconsiderate.

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Not heard any here at all.

reports of fireworks being thrown into Stratford tube station crowds now

I’ve not heard any fireworks at all.

It's the massive bomb sounding ones that are awful and doubt its anything to do with Diwali. It's more to do with mindless idiots, I sat with my lovebirds last night, one was scared witless. I have lights and TV on but these huge bangs make me jolt so what do people think it does to animals.

I've heard and seen a few over the last few weeks. Personally I love fireworks and my cats don't give a shit.

It's not Bonfire Night you stupid pricks.

Fireworks displays have happened every year since I was a young child, going back well over 3O years.

Why is a acceptable on bonfire night but not Halloween?

None of the shops in Dundee are selling them now after riots broke out in a housing scheme last night. Fireworks being aimed at the police - I just can't even work out the mentality.

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I hope this is the start of a nationwide ban tbh, in time I hope the police and politicians work together on this.

I love home fireworks but we stick to 5th November and then people know it will be happening. But I think they should be very quiet - a ban put on selling loud ones to the public.

Police were called in my street last night because a window was smashed by a firework. Never known anything like it.

I have PTSD (nothing to do with war) and if I'm not expecting the bangs it's really stressful and can set me right off.

This will be the first year for many without a scared dog in the house though.

There were fireworks aimed at trams in Manchester last week. Could have done some serious damage.

There should be a law restricting them to designated days only, with a named person responsible for each fireworks display. Designated days (say five a year) allow for celebrations and would give warning to allow anyone to remain indoors and protect vulnerable people and animals.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11376369/Firework-thug-blasts-mother-BABY-pram-ROCKET-outside-Westfield-Shopping-Centre.html

Sorry for the DM link, but saw this and thought people should hear about these incidents. It's time fireworks were banned 😒

I haven't heard any fireworks this year. I'm in Surrey