Fireworks

Morrisons down the road are selling allready, every year it ends up like world war 3 going down for 4 plus weeks.

For me the first or following saturday, ofcourse no problem with the 5th.

Like others have said allready, it realy is bloody crap that it's constant bang bang for weeks on end every night.
 
We stopped doing our own fireworks after an incident with a roman candle.

Dodging smouldering hot projectiles that explode at your feet is not as much fun as it sounds.
 
If you get a multi shot thing, make sure you bury it the right way up else it explodes and leaves and **** off crater in your lawn. :D good times last year
Also a wheel ramp makes a good launch ramp.

Just go to your local firework store, or most garden centres, small shops etc.

Don't whatever you do buy from supermarkets or places like that, the reason the fireworks are so cheap is because they're underfilled, they're a rip off, you'll get more bang for buck buying from decent sources.
 
I love firework, they're awesome. The louder the better as far as I'm concerned as it makes it more exciting :D You have to feel slightly sorry for parents with children, but ah well, thats life, they'll get over it.
 
D.P. said:
I love fireworks and hate thepeople that want fireworks banned.


However, I think some kind of restrictions are needed.
Its all well and good saying fireworks only on specific nights is legal. But what about bad weather postponements or if you want a Guy Fawkes party on the weekend, or simply a fireworks display at a different time of year.
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Fireworks are legal all year round but may not be set off after 11pm (exceptions for NYE, Chinese New Year, Diwali (1am) & Obviously Bonfore night (midnight))

So probably the best option is simply making fireworks whos sole purpose is to go BANG illegal.
Then bring in tighter restrictions around their use. Not on public ground unless in a specified spot set out by the council (with an appropriate ambulance and min firecrew there). (but you can use your garden). this stops the CHAVs firing rockets down the street. We need to strictly police the minimum age limits (should b 18, jail time for selling to those under or for providing to minors).
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I'm all for tighter restrictions having been working a petrol station bordering the local council housing....scary few nights there I tell ya!

Age limits are 18 for purchase & possession, currently test purchases & large fines are the only options for punishment. Supplying to minors being hit with jailtime might work quite nicely....

Perhaps even a license is required. E.g., you turn up to some informal training thing and sit a simple safety test. You pay for this service. This would stop loads of CHAVs.
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Great idea!

Perhaps fireworks should be controlled within certain times. E.g. the weekend before and after Nov 5th and all the days in between, + New Year, xmas, etc. You could then allow people to apply for a license to have fireworks at a differing time of year which would be granted more or less automatically but means that only those people that planned a fireworks event can set off fireworks, again will stop the chavs.
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Also a good idea, enforcement would be tough like a lot of crime though :(

Licensing wouldn't be cheap but people who want to have fireworks displays will likely pay a small fee. Then the police can ask to see if you have a license or not. OR soemthing like a 2-5% tax on fireworks sales to cover the licensing costs.
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Sensible :)
 
Klo said:
I love firework, they're awesome. The louder the better as far as I'm concerned as it makes it more exciting :D You have to feel slightly sorry for parents with children, but ah well, thats life, they'll get over it.
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:rolleyes:

it's not me, but my son who needs to, as you so eloquenty put "get over it", I'll explain that to him next time he's screaming, terrified at the loud bangs outside, thanks for making me see sense.

Stupidly loud fireworks that simply make a noise and nothing else have no place in civilised society, they are simply tools that thugs and chavs use to cause trouble.
 
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philjohn said:
:rolleyes:

it's not me, but my son who needs to, as you so eloquenty put "get over it", I'll explain that to him next time he's screaming, terrified at the loud bangs outside, thanks for making me see sense.

Stupidly loud fireworks that simply make a noise and nothing else have no place in civilised society, they are simply tools that thugs and chavs use to cause trouble.
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buy decent double glazing
 
if you want a loud bang just push the rocket so far into the ground that it blows up at ground level. Its a whole different experience
 
Energize said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diazepam

It's one night a year, I expect you'll want to ban speakers next because they make a loud noise?
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But as said before its not one night is it? Its more like 14 nights.

The problem is only getting worse year on year

The scum that buy these things set them off 'for a laff' from anytime that they can get their fists on them and do it randomly.

You probably might understand when you leave school and are old enough to have children of your own.

Oh and nice wiki to the Diazepam there dude, it really made me chuckle. :rolleyes:
 
Energize said:
I wouldn't know I don't live on a council estate.
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:rolleyes:

neither do I, but as tends to be the case on this overpopulated isle, once you live in a denser populated area you are inevitably going to have some council estates in the vicinity. I have a sneaking suspicion some of them deliberately come to the nicer areas round here and set them off just to stick one up to those of us who work hard and have done something with our lives.

neil3k said:
buy decent double glazing
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I've got fairly new (<5 years old) and decent double glazing thankyouverymuch. As I've said, I don't mind fireworks that actually do something, but the loud "bangers" that exist simply to make noise are antisocial and need banning TYVFM. The really loud ones will rattle any windows, however big the gap between the panes is.

Energize said:
I expect you'll want to ban speakers next because they make a loud noise?
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If they were being used for making a loud noise for the sake of making a loud noise (i.e. constantly playing droning bass tones for annoyance value) I would want the perpetrators stopped, but you are comparing apples to oranges. The problem with bangers has got out of hand, I'm not out to spoil anyone's fun, except if that fun is purposfully making trouble for everyone else living in the vicinity.
 
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philjohn said:
Why? It's a selfish and anti-social thing to do - I really hope they ban the fireworks that simply make loud noises. Last year was a nightmare with those going off and waking our 2 year old son up constantly.

"Oooh-ahh" fireworks at least have a purpose.
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Glad I don't have you as a dad. :p
 
Scubascorpion said:
Glad I don't have you as a dad. :p
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Do you seriously think it's acceptable for large bangs to be going off at midnight and beyond for several weeks a year for the sole purpose of ******* people off? That's what bangers seem to be primarily used for in my experience. If I go to a fireworks display I want to see pretty lights in the sky, inevitably there will be bangs as those rockets explode, but they aren't the major attraction.
 
I'm completely with philjohn on this. Living in an urban, moderately-densely populated area approaching that 'one night' is an absolute nightmare. Last year it was like Beirut for about 3 weeks, culminating in some truly *stupid* moves by local idiots.

We, like many others, live in terraced housing. When people are setting off large fireworks mere metres from your back door, it really is unpleasant.

I'm all for licensing, increased restriction and indeed banning the general public from obtaining fireworks. At the end of the day, possession of any other explosive would be considered (at best) a public order offence.
 
My dog goes absolutely mental every year, hes has fits, scratches the floor, hides in the bath and shakes uncontrollably! :(
 
My city must have an anti-chav shield because I live in terrace housing and don't suffer from firework problems.

leoncc said:
My dog goes absolutely mental every year, hes has fits, scratches the floor, hides in the bath and shakes uncontrollably! :(
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If your dog is fitting you should take him to the vet. Don't vets give out diazepam and phenobarbital exactly for this kind of situation?
 
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