Motherfucking fireworks

[Sandrine1982]

How is this allowed past 8pm, I don't understand.

Cat is terrified, kid took 2 hours to get to sleep only to be woken up 10 min ago by more frigging fireworks.

how on earth is this still allowed??

I hate this time of year.

It's f** triggering. These twats should go and help in Gaza, I'm sure they would not be firing frigging fireworks after that experience !!

thanks for listening :( :( :(

I enjoy fireworks, but it’s not fair on animals so I am not in favour of them. Silent fireworks would be a compromise.

You live in London - as did I until two month months ago. There is significant noise all night. Between boy racers or delivery drivers with their mopeds or souped up cars, people on nights out shouting and singing in the street as they make their way home, the neighbours having parties, assorted emergency service sirens, the buses hitting that one pothole which was right outside my window, the street sweeping lorries with their "Caution! Vehicle turning left" announcements blaring... Fireworks are the least of the worries when it comes to noise. In my experience it's only quiet-ish between about midnight - 5am.

If you expect peace and quiet in a city after 8pm, you're being a little bit silly.

I hate them now..the local ones anyway. I think organised displays are fine, but there are too many issues with being able to just buy them over the counter at any old shop. When I was a teen I was walking down an underpass with some friends and a gang of lads shot fireworks at us, how we weren’t badly hurt I’ll never know - just terrifying. My dogs are terrified of them too, and the home fireworks go on for weeks. The dogs sit and shake, pant and cry or pace from room to room. No idea why they aren’t banned, just let people go to displays if they want to

True.... actually ... they should be banned altogether ... I find them awful and triggering at any hour. But especially when I put my child to bed and try to get them to sleep.

It's a nightmare where am I am too.Going to bed now but know that the noise will go on for hours and I'll get woken up. There's no consideration shown by the idiots setting off fireworks all night. Presumably they don't have to get up for work tomorrow.

Still going of like crazy here too. I don't have an issue with them at a reasonable hour. But why, when it gets dark by 7ish, they still need to be going off at past 11 is beyond me. NYE ones are annoying too, but they are usually only for 15 mins or so at midnight, and the next day is a BH for most people. Vs most people have to go to work and school tomorrow, and this has been going on for over 4 hours where I am. Plus it's a bit triggering for me after getting caught up in a civil war when volunteering abroad, probably much more so for ex armed forces and other people who have been caught up in conflicts. At a public display you know when it's going to start and roughly end, rarely more than 10-15 mins. Hours and hours of it is exhausting.

But you dont as you attended a fire works display yesterday. You find them annoying when getting a child to sleep, that’s not the same.

I am all for cultural celebrations, but given the alternatives available, I don't know why it is still legal to buy fireworks that make noise and cause distress to animals. They're also really crap for the environment. I know we can't all have drone displays in our back gardens, but at the very least it should be the law that fireworks available for public purchase have to be soundless.

Hear hear. They’ve been going every night since Thursday, including at 00.40am this morning, and the dog is bloody losing it. Why can’t there be one official display that ends at like 8pm and that’s it?
btw I feel the same whether it’s Diwali, Guy Fawkes, New years. Kids can’t sleep and the dog needs bloody Prozac. Grr.

Put some white noise on to help your kids sleep. I live in firework central and this helps loads - also good for pets

We get constant fire works in the evening all the way through October. i used not mind then but now we have a dog I hate them (currently the dog is sitting beside me in bed shaking)

My cat is cowering under the bed in a tiny space. Shes been there several hours. Utterly terrified. It breaks my heart. You can buy none bang fireworks. You get the light but not the bang. Why dont people use them? The loud fireworks should be banned in my opinion.

I don’t think they should be band, but I think they should be silent or near silent. It’s the loud bangs which cause the issue for many children (especially children with ASD), for many adults, for pets and wildlife. Last year I attended a silent fireworks display, it was the most spectacular display I’ve ever attended.

Yes, I completely agree. Same opinion.

Actually fireworks in general, unless at an organised event, are completely unreasonable. Why not go to a community event where entry fees generally contribute to the local provision? Those organisers give people with livestock plenty of notice too, as you say 'calm the cat'. Perhaps you don't realise that calming horses is a trifle harder?

I checked the gov website and they are allowed to set off fireworks until 1am
Loads going off here in Exeter. I have two dogs having full on panic attacks.
I hate this time of year too. I've booked a remote cabin on the moores for over bonfire night, but it's so expensive to keep doing for everything event that uses fireworks 😭

God this same old moaning every single year…Yes let’s just ban everything your cat doesn’t like. 🙄

Agree , would love them to be banned. My poor dog has refused walks since Friday as since the fireworks trigger him, even a car door shutting in the day time sets him off, he’s fine the rest of the time but it takes a good few weeks for him to get over the stress of fireworks. This evening they’ve been going off for five hours and it’s just bloody annoying. Can’t even get him into the garden for a wee Grr.

This!

Maybe it's not the one cat that has a problem with it . . . 🤔

You know that a lot of animals die each year right?

It is Diwali, the festival of light...mothefucker.

I completely agree. It’s actually possible to make fireworks without the bang and I don’t know why this isn’t done for all of them. I live in London too. It’s awful at this time of year. There’s diwali and bonfire night yes, but it’s EVERY night throughout the autumn as people can buy fireworks cheap in loads of shops and obviously it’s fun. My neighbour’s dog died having a panic attack a few years back. Kids regularly get woken up late. All so ridiculous, frustrating, annoying, anger-inducing.

And for those of us who have close family members (former soldiers) with PTSD who died by suicide due to fireworks?
Yeah, you're a massive soulless twat.

1. It's Diwali, so there's a clear reason for them and you know when they'll be and can plan accordingly.
2. The biggest public celebration (Leicester) was cancelled due to safety fears. So people can't just go to public celebrations. There are also far fewer of them.
3. Because Diwali is a new year celebration, they can go until 1 am, just like all new year celebrations in this country.

If we're going to get rid of one of the fireworks days, I vote for New Year which only recently acquired fireworks or Bonfire Night which celebrates a failed attempt to kill the king in 1604 and is therefore far less culturally significant.