To want bonfire night banned!!

[Wigglesworth]

Am I? God damn fireworks I am so f**ked off with our neighbourhood sounding like a lively night on the streets of Baghdad every night this past week! If not banned couldn't the gov. only make them legal at professional organised displays?

it's only a simile for the sound

YANBU, and tbh I don't understand those who say you're a killjoy for thinking this. A constant backdrop of what sounds like gunshots, followed by sirens, all bloody night and for the next 2 months. So ostentatious - seems that the louder the better. Let alone the points about scaring animals, children and old people, or the accidents.

If they're for kids why do they go on till 2am?

But for those saying it's disturbing the kids. Presumably those same kids cry at night (or used to) and people put up with it. It's how it works, a bit of give and take.

I knew when I logged on tonight that some old kill joy would be moaning about fireworks......

it's only one week a year.

Thing is, in some areas it is fine - just a few nights and before 9pm, but if you live in a shitehole like me, then you have to listen to it for weeks and right into the night.
Personally, I love bonfire night itself, but i object to the wankers who let them off at one am on a succession of week nights, scaring the living bejeezus out of everyone and their dog.

kormawhatever i wish some of the people who set off fireworks would lighten up and burn like guy fawkes but on a more important note they really should only be let off on Nov 5th. most people if you asked them would not have a clue why they were letting off the damn things Vapid don`t be so silly banning fireworks is on the grounds of health and safty. Doh

"i wish some of the people who set off fireworks would lighten up and burn like guy fawkes"

we've got a right one 'ere

Oh I'd sooner they did them all on one day really, but then of course it's not just Guy Fawkes. Some of the fireworks are for other celebrations. One of the many benefits of multiculturism you see. If we are lucky then one day soon there will be a festival that requires fireworks for every day of the year

YABu. I,ve had a lovely family evening with my DH and DD's watching fireworks and eating hot dogs in our garden. Yes they are aged 16.18 and 21 but it>s not very often we get them all together.
We used to have a big firework party on my Dads Birthday as it's near bonfire night. All his grandchildren went and everyone enjoyed it.

I really love to watch fireworks but when you set them off in your garden you have no control over where they go.

It has taken me ages tonight to get my dd(8) to bed after a firework exploded above her head and frightened the living daylights out of her, it was so low I thought it was going to hit my house

Oh come on, they are fun, one night, or one week, kids love it, and its worth it just so you can try to write your name really fast with a sparkler!

You could make a much better case for banning private car ownership in urban areas and telling people that they should leave it in the hands of the 'experts' and only use public transport. Cars are incredibly dangerous, noisy and polluting: they kill and maim more people than anything else (in countries that are not actually at war).

YABU. I hate the 'let's ban everything' brigade. It's fun, and, especially with things being as grim as they are at the moment, anything that brings joy should be embraced. (And I say this as the owner of two dogs, neither of whom like fireworks, and mother of an 8mo, who gets woken up if the dogs start to bark along with the bangs.)

And as for your 'lively night in downtown Bahgdad comment' YABVU and also insensitive. Bloke has spent quite a few lively nights there, and assures me that it is nothing like few farkin' fireworks. People like you trivializing the current situation in Iraq piss me off. And I try my best not to swear on here, but can't help myself.

YABU.

However, I do think it could be managed better, currently the law states that they are not allowed to go off after 11pm or before 7am. I think that's too late in a suburban neighbourhood personally.

I lay in bed last night at about 10:30 when someone started their fireworks. This was, IMO, rude and disrespectful, I live on an estate where most houses are occupied by families with school age children. If that was only one night a year, or weekends, then fine, one night isn't going to harm anyone but the fireworks have gone off continuously since they went on sale last month.

I also think there should be a clause that you let your surrounding neighbours know that you will be having fireworks, so they can keep any pets in. But then I still think people should inform any neighbours they are having a BBQ so they can get the washing in.

We are having fireworks for DD's birthday on the 22nd November. It is a saturday night, so no school, we will be having them at around 8 o'clock so that the noise has died down by 8:30 and everyone will be indoors by 9pm. I have already informed all neighbours that have pets and will be putting a note through everyone's door closer to the time.

It is not the fireworks that are the problem but people having no consideration for those around them.

I meant to say, maybe they should be licensed.

Myself and DP were discussing this last night.

The money from the licensing could go towards any extra policing needed and the A+E department/fire brigade that are usually extra busy on this night.

The licenses could be easily gained, but need a police check so anyone with a violent or public order background could not purchase them, they could have to declare what day they would be using them so if there were any complaints of inappropriate use or unsociable use then this could be checked, if they broke the conditions of the license they were then banned from having fireworks.

That way the people who are actually using them to celebrate something need not have a problem.

I agree Barack, I think people got the wrong impression with my OP. I don't want to "ban everything" I just feel that it should be regulated so that we don't have to listen to them going off 24/7 for 2 months. I was out walking my DS yesterday at lunchtime and they were going off then, they woke me and DS up at 4am this morning, it gets really irritating.

YABU.
Vapido speaks sense!

If they were going off at 4am they were breaking the law. Unless it is a public display with a license it has to be over by 11pm.

'Irritating'.

I daresay that that's exactly how troops in Iraq feel about the rocketing.

if someone put a note through my door saying that they were going to have fireworks for half an hour at 8pm on a Saturday, and apologising for the inconvenience to my cat/goldfish/newborn/shell-shocked great-grandad, I would think they were completely 'out to lunch', personally

What a lot of fuss about nothing

LOL Greeny, most of my neighbours have pets and babies, I think it's only polite to tell them.
I'd prefer they think I'm a bit strange than get pissed off because just as they put their baby to sleep a rocket comes whizzing past their window.

I lay in bed at 10.15pm last night whilst people were still letting fireworks off, and I mentally started this thread.

I knew people would say I was a killjoy, so I never actually started it.

LOL pink I guess I am brave or stupid or both eh. By the way apologies if I offended with my OP and I don't want to get into any verbal slanging matches with anyone, thats not why I come on here!

YABU.

Fireworks are wonderful.

We're going to a display tonight and having our own little firework party in the garden on Saturday.

Oh also, I wouldn't make a big deal of telling my neighbours if the fireworks were near fireworks night, but DD's birthday isn't for a couple of weeks, and they aren't even on sale at the time so people won't be expecting them.