Morons letting off fireworks

I'm surprised they haven't already been banned here, AFAIK they were banned in SA like 15 years ago due to the distress they cause dogs. Our dogs used to be terrified around Guy Fawkes and we had to give them tranquilizers.
 
Dark_Injection said:
True that, but i know for a fact I wouldn't bring up a meeting and get the police involved in something like fireworks.

I get it, there is a health and safety risk, and people can get injured. But it is what happens. I just used Germany as an example, but MANY countries around the world re lax on things like this, they understand it is fun, no matter what time of year. In England everything is so controlled and boring now due to people like the OP.

Kids should be kids, and if you didn't mess around with fireworks at that age then your loss.
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Are you suggesting there should be no restrictions on the fireworks that can be bought? Am I reading that right?
 
diamount said:
Are you suggesting there should be no restrictions on the fireworks that can be bought? Am I reading that right?
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I can certainly see some benefits of that... could help the... er... "problems" solve themselves!

(can't see many kids setting off fireworks with no arms :p)
 
Haggisman said:
I can certainly see some benefits of that... could help the... er... "problems" solve themselves!

(can't see many kids setting off fireworks with no arms :p)
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Dark_Injection said:
Hahaha English people and being scared of fireworks.
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Outside of my house last year there was a FIREWORK WAR!
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The people in the UK are so pffttt with everything normal in other parts of the world.
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Fire some rockets at people in parts of Nottingham then, and see what they fire back at you.
 
FutileBreadMachine said:
I'm surprised they haven't already been banned here, AFAIK they were banned in SA like 15 years ago due to the distress they cause dogs. Our dogs used to be terrified around Guy Fawkes and we had to give them tranquilizers.
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Guy fawkes, plotted to blow up the house of Lords and suspected intimidator of canines!
 
JBuk said:
Only if it's a sparkler
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Sparklers are actually extremely dangerous, I know someone who got a Sparkler stuck in her coat collar when she was a child and the burn was so severe she needed skin grafts. Needless to say I am fairly wary about them with my kids!

(on topic: fireworks don't really bother me. Grew up with Lewes bonfire, kids letting off a few fireworks will be small fry in comparison).
 
Luggs said:
Sadly no fireworks available in norniron :(
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When they weren't legal you used to be able to get them from the back of vans buried deep within Nutts Corner market. Good times back in the early 90s as a kid. Greasy questionable burger from a van, dander around, pick up some old Circus Circus bootleg tapes and someone would usually come up to you with "pssst, wanna buy some fireworks?". They were completely legal from the mid 90s until the early 2000s. Paramilitaries started using them for IEDs and now you need a license for even the smallest haul. Having said that I've yet to see anyone with fireworks actually apply for or be asked "have you got / can I see your license please?" when buying them.
 
I find it amazing that in a country with a health and safety obsession, any person over the age of 18 can buy explosives. You have to wear goggles, a hard hat and a hi vis vest to go anywhere near a building site, yet it's OK to set light to bombs in your own back garden.

MAD MAD MAD
 
EdwardTeach said:
Sparklers are actually extremely dangerous, I know someone who got a Sparkler stuck in her coat collar when she was a child and the burn was so severe she needed skin grafts. Needless to say I am fairly wary about them with my kids!
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They're probably dangerous if you try eating them or shoving them up your backside too then! If you decide to shove it into your coat then its not surprising.

All about education though, up to people to teach their kids safety (as I'm sure you do), those who don't, well....
 
I thought this was going to be about the endless 'let's set off a firework for this party' at any point during Autumn. With dogs that was always an absolute nightmare.

As for people firing fireworks at me, yeah that would probably irritate me a bit more. Thankfully it hasn't happened yet.
 
anything I don't mind said:
I blew a fair amount of stuff up as a youngster, other people letterboxes, those ones at the front of the garden on a stick. Using cherry bombs. Also used to blow up coke cans.
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Bangers through letterboxes, rockets fired from balconies, pass the banger were all the crazy when I was a youngster.
 
Kids now days have no idea on fireworks.

Gone are the days when you had fights on the park with roman candles as guns, holding the firework with hand inside your parker. Or the same thing with a air bomb repeater (these wore more expensive) playing chicken wuth mini rockets thrown up in the air with the stick broken off. Bangers in milk bottles etc etc
2 weeks of amazing fun before bonfire night and a couple of days after.
 
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