Fireworks

[Jas278]

:(bigangry): .......every bloody year.............when are they going to act and sort out some regulations that work, and then night after night we would nt have to put up with such a menace........

[p4203]

they are to busy having a go at the gas guzzlers :shock:

[Skibum346]

Wonder how much CO2 the average firework puts out... maybe we should start a campaign band wagon... see if we can get the greenies to jump on it..?!

 :lol:

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Careful chaps, you could get into the area of 'peoples freedom of expression' etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, I quite like fireworks, but in the right place and at the right time.

[Jas278]

Careful chaps, you could get into the area of 'peoples freedom of expression' etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, I quite like fireworks, but in the right place and at the right time.

Thats why I said Regulate as oppose ban, but what about  my right  to a good nights sleep , walk the dogs in peace  ?

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Careful chaps, you could get into the area of 'peoples freedom of expression' etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, I quite like fireworks, but in the right place and at the right time.

Thats why I said Regulate as oppose ban, but what about  my right  to a good nights sleep , walk the dogs in peace  ?

Couldn't agree more matey, its been like a recreation of a WW1 barrage round here for the last two weeks and will no doubt continue until after New Year.
Its the commercial gain thing though. Now that we are a 'more diverse society' than we ever were, that fireworks are 'used' at so many different times thus resulting in all year round sales, although I don't know which creed, faith, religon or belief that says 'thou shalt go and let them off in the middle of the street, fire them at vehicles, and generally be a pain in backside'.
At the risk of being labelled a supporter of the nanny state (which I am most definatley not), if they were sold to a person for a certain area, at a certain time, then I don't see a problem.

[Budgie]

I'd ban them from public sale and make them for organised displays only with licenced people only being able to purchase them.

It would dramaticly reduce the numbers of injuries each year, stop us having to endure 3 months of bangs, wooshes and scared pets.

Bottom line is that we're celebrating the actions of a terrorist by selling kids exposives! Anyone see anything wrong with that in this day & age?  :?

[datalas]

I think we should celebrate Guy Fawkes this year in a very apt remake of the end scene from V for Vendetta...

Hmm, hello mr officer, don't you respond quickly these days...

[Cate]

*lifts soap-box into position ... stats rant*

fireworks should be on firework night only, not before or after
Christmas should be in December only, never before
Easter eggs should be sold at Easter time only
Boxing Day sales should be on Boxing day, and not the 30 day run up to

...anyone found infringing these rules and selling Christmas wrapping paper in November, Easter eggs on New Years Day etc etc will be shot. Dead!

*puts soap box away and gets shot for being un-pc*

anymore?

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

*lifts soap-box into position ... stats rant*

fireworks should be on firework night only, not before or after
Christmas should be in December only, never before
Easter eggs should be sold at Easter time only
Boxing Day sales should be on Boxing day, and not the 30 day run up to

...anyone found infringing these rules and selling Christmas wrapping paper in November, Easter eggs on New Years Day etc etc will be shot. Dead!

*puts soap box away and gets shot for being un-pc*

anymore?

So you propose a fairly liberal stance on this matter, Cate? :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[rollazuki]

for sake guys. Theyre fireworks!
Bit of fun
Celebration stuff

Ive got a dog , she cowers a bit when they go off, they wake my kids at night, but...........I remember being fifteen and setting off barrages of rockets etc. Its pretty harmless(unless its launched Bazooka style...erm.....)

Seems to me we should take on board the harmless , but annoying stuff that kids seem to do, and let em keep doing it, then maybe they wouldnt feel the need to do the harmfull, and dangerous stuff they try to do.

[TDi90]

i agree, drives our cows mental... living on a farm, we get very upset with fireworks... they could atleast have the politeness to let us know  

[Jas278]

Seems to me we should take on board the harmless , but annoying stuff that kids seem to do, and let em keep doing it, then maybe they wouldnt feel the need to do the harmfull, and dangerous stuff they try to do.

This is a wind up right.............

[datalas]

it might not be, untill you've had one of the little darlings throw a firework through your letter box for a giggle they might appear somewhat harmless...

[Stormin]

Picture this. Little hamlet, 8 private dwellings, 1 with kennels and 2 farms. Saturday night and most every ones in bed. (I'd to be up at 6.) To celebrate his wifes birthday, your neighbour lets off what can only be described as maroon rockets, on a Saturday at midnight. He never gave anyone any warning.  I thought someone was firing a shotgun in the elderly neighbours garden behind us. (She's in her eighties.) T'Other Arf hit the ceiling, our late Alsation nearly took the bedroom door off as she bolted in and jumped on the bed. When I went over and thanked him very much for wakening everyone in a 5 mile radius, the prat could still see no wrong in what he had done.  By Sunday night he did.  After he'd had several visitors.  

[tomcat]

*lifts soap-box into position ... stats rant*

fireworks should be on firework night only, not before or after
Christmas should be in December only, never before
Easter eggs should be sold at Easter time only
Boxing Day sales should be on Boxing day, and not the 30 day run up to

...anyone found infringing these rules and selling Christmas wrapping paper in November, Easter eggs on New Years Day etc etc will be shot. Dead!

*puts soap box away and gets shot for being un-pc*

anymore?

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[Jim-Willy]

Trouble is i played wi' fireworks as a Kid.........  So can't really complain now i have had my fun can i?  My Dog hated them though.

[JD LWB]

*lifts soap-box into position ... stats rant*

fireworks should be on firework night only, not before or after
Christmas should be in December only, never before
Easter eggs should be sold at Easter time only
Boxing Day sales should be on Boxing day, and not the 30 day run up to

...anyone found infringing these rules and selling Christmas wrapping paper in November, Easter eggs on New Years Day etc etc will be shot. Dead!

*puts soap box away and gets shot for being un-pc*

anymore?

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I'm 21 and love fireworks.









But I have to aggree completely.

Great in the right place, at the right time and done by the proper people.

Where I live, you can hear them going off almost every night from before Bonfire night until after New Year (just hear 2 as I wrote this).  I live on a farm about 10 miles from a major town (Stockport) and I have to be up at 4.30 in the morning to get to work (shift work -not on the farm).

[jaws]

I'm 21 and love fireworks.

But I have to aggree completely.

Great in the right place, at the right time and done by the proper people.

Where I live, you can hear them going off almost every night from before Bonfire night until after New Year I have to be up at 4.30 in the morning to get to work (shift work).

same here when our neibours had a party last year an where setting fireworks off till silly o'clock.i went round an asked for a cease fire as i had work at 5am.a load of abuse came my way.

before i went to work at 5.00 i was sittin outside their house with the car boot and all doors open playing them a nice bit of NWA.the 15" sub bein powered by900watts of pheonix gold amp had the same effect on them as what their fireworks had on me!don'r get mad,get even :twisted:

[Cate]

Don't get me wrong, I love fireworks, the dog doesn't seem to care either, its just that some people don't seem to realise that others don't always share their passion for letting them off at silly o'clock. What happened to thinking about the effect one's action could have on another, doesn't anyone think of that anymore!

I love Christmas too, but only in December! grrrrrrr

Sorry, ranting again   :roll:  :D Never mind, not long till Easter.

[Bush Tucker Man]

We're just waiting for the injuries to start at work

I remember one lad a few years ago decided (presumably?) that they weren't powerful enough...........

So, he poured the contents of several into a tin-can.
Now whether they reacted with each other, the can (the type of metal?) affected the composition, or he lit it - I don't know.

But, it left him with a thumb & little finger on one hand, shrapnel in his abdomen & throat and burns

Thankfully he survived.
I believe that once he'd recovered, he offered to tour schools in the lead-up to Bonfire Night & tell the kids that he didn't think it could happen to him.
And not to be daft & play around with the things

[Evilgoat]

We're just waiting for the injuries to start at work

I remember one lad a few years ago decided (presumably?) that they weren't powerful enough...........

So, he poured the contents of several into a tin-can.
Now whether they reacted with each other, the can (the type of metal?) affected the composition, or he lit it - I don't know.

But, it left him with a thumb & little finger on one hand, shrapnel in his abdomen & throat and burns

Thankfully he survived.
I believe that once he'd recovered, he offered to tour schools in the lead-up to Bonfire Night & tell the kids that he didn't think it could happen to him.
And not to be daft & play around with the things

Judging by SGH A&E they already have. Managing to avoid all firework related duties this season as I had more than enough last year.

I like making things go bang so it doesnt bother me. Plus in S'oton we get them every other weekend from the cruise liners.

[lenster]

what can you do its the 'festival of light' everybody has the right to enjoy their own festivities. get your own back on the 31st dec. personally i buy the biggest and loudest firework i can and wait until it all goes quiet! my dog is a terrier he loves the bangs, he's also a racist, nothing to do with me he's a dog!

[jalopy joe]

Well, Rocketman and I will be working hard on Saturday evening, pleasing some of you and upsetting some of you.  Hopefully though we are the right people doing it the right way, in the right place and at the right time.  Mind you the size of some of the stuff we work with, the wrong way is not an option.

[Jas278]

everybody has the right to enjoy their own festivities. get your own back on the 31st dec. personally i buy the biggest and loudest firework i can and wait until it all goes quiet! !

Im glad I dont live near you , what about my right to sleep at night, walk my dogs safely, as for waiting for a quite period, You deserve to have it put where the sun dont shine.. :twisted:

[Range Rover Blues]

I used to like fireworks but as i've got older they have got noisier, they have havn't they?

Well I've got dogs now so I hate the damn noise, I hate having to pick up the emptied from my garden and I hate the fallout that lands on my cars and ruins the paintwork (it's iron filings that make the sparkles, and they are bad for your car).

[Minotaur]

AS a Kid/teen me and my mates used to have rocket fights - fired from a large bottle or similiar and armed yourself with a metal dustbin lid for protection - Absolutely crazy and looking back we were all lucky to get away unharmed.

However, the following changed my opinions on clowning about with fireworks - seeing anyone being irresponsible really riles me now.  - Read on:

 A mate of mine was dressed up one bonfire night when he was a kid at a local display, however a bunch of yobs threw some bangers, catching my friends clothes on fire - he received severe burns to the lower part of his body - an off duty police man saved his life and wedding tackle by smothering the flames with his coat and hands receiving bad burns to his hands, arms and face.
My friend is scarred for life, but very, very lucky to be alive - has had to endure dozens of operations and skin grafts over the years.

MHO:

The right place at the right time and anyone one caught giving or selling them to kids/teenagers should be locked up.

My rant over

Chris :x

[Grant]

I love fireworks, have my own display every year

sick of all this ban this that & the other crap... just need to stop the kids getting them

reason it goes on for ages is divali

[Mudlark]

It's not that I hate them , I don't I really like them. BUT it's the not knowing when they are going to be set off at this time of year - we've just had a massive display go off here tonight.

I personally feel that fireworks should only be allowed on the 5th or the weekend nearest, and at any other time under licence preceded by a notice of intent.

Ditto for the new year

I reckon that might keep most people happy