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[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8343585.stm ]should you be able to buy fireworks?[/url]
Should fireworks be restricted to organised, licensed events? In this age of 'elf and safety, how has this one slipped through the net? Home fireworks are crap anyway.
Ban 'em. Ban'em NOW. BAN EVERYTHING.
I hate the ban everything culture but flogging explosives to the general public is pretty stupid. Perfectly illustrated by the link in jon1973's post.
I have to produce my firearm certificate when buying ammunition so why should fireworks be available to all. They contain explosives and most launch projectiles - some of which are fitted with even more explosives!
bet you he's a noob-tube fiend at CoD....
What ban them cause a few are silly with them.
There's a hell of a lot less fireworks played with now then when I was a kid.
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in the village i live in, everyone chips in about 50 quid, and a nominted party (normally my pa) goes to a "pub" and sees a "man" about "a massive shippemnt of explosives that he keeps in his barn and actually sleeps ontop of at night with a loaded shotgun for the run up to fireworks night"
nothing illegal, but when 500 quid gets you 4 or 5 fireworks, 4 or 5 fireworks is ALL you need 😉
you certainly cant get them in "the shops"
do children in North Yorkshire make a lot of cakes at Hallowe'en?
bet you he's a noob-tube fiend at CoD....
I was getting pwned by "n00bs with t00bes" all last night on COD4, the buggers!
Can I speak on behalf of all the dogs/cats/horses/assorted other animals who are frightened and sometimes deliberately harmed by fireworks every year?
Please ban private sales of fireworks.
If fireworks were restricted to public displays animal owners would have advance notice and could take steps to protect their pets.
[i]If fireworks were restricted to public displays animal owners would have advance notice and could take steps to protect their pets. [/i]
My dog thinks it's out shooting and hunts around the house for rabbits and pheasents, well not so much now she just wags her tail.
What wrong with blowing stuff up? Come on, you know it's fun!
My dog doesn't care either, she worked out that she can't eat them and promptly lost interest! ... but some do
in the village i live in, everyone chips in about 50 quid
Wow, most round here would slam the door in your face if you asked for money for fireworks. Wish we had a bit more of a community spirit like that round here.
Going back to the op, you could try banning them or restricting their sales even further, but you could imagine the market for out of date and home made incendiary devices would go through the roof!
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If fireworks were restricted to public displays animal owners would have advance notice and could take steps to protect their pets.
If people were polite enough to warn their neighbours, not an issue then?
[i]If people were polite enough to warn their neighbours, not an issue then? [/i]
What warn them there may be some fireworks on the 5th November, I bet they'd be shocked.
Our dog loves them. He looks for falling pheasants.
Free fireworks for all school-children. More fun than milk.
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yesterday we got bricked and had fireworks throw/fired at us. made a change from just bricks 😉
YES ...
Course you should be able to buy fireworks,
I love em, always have n always will ....
On OP link to video.... I think this type of thing has always gone on, I know we did when I was a YooF. ( a long time ago )
The differance now is that such stunts get posted on You Tube etc
On the other note...
I heard of a supermarket that recently "banned " the sale of single lemons on H & S grounds FFS, turns out some kids had been chucking them at cars so some jobsworth panicked and banned the sales in case they got sued ! .... think the ban is cancelled now
They have almost disappeared anyway, with the growth of organized displays. The huge improvements in professional fireworks have just shown up most affordable family stuff to be the pathetic little squib it always was. Fewer people bother wasting money on them, because they are nothing like as good as the "real thing".
Years ago when professional displays were also rather rubbish, kids were firing things off from early October, that's nearly stopped all by itself.
There much more availble now Mountiancarrot and still bought by the tonne but most places now operate you must look 25, not 16 like it once was.
it's not the 5th Nov fireworks that annoy me it'ds the fact that they are available from august until january ( and probably all year round)
[i]it's not the 5th Nov fireworks that annoy me it'ds the fact that they are available from august until january ( and probably all year round) [/i]
Why does that annoy you? I can't see how it makes any difference when there availble.
To be able to sell fireworks all year round, you need the relevant licenses, and with the storage regulations, it doesn't make it that profitable when 80%+ of your business is done in a 2 week period.
For the seasonal sellers like the local newsagents and supermarkets, theres a date they cannot sell them before, iirc its 14 days before the 5th.
The regulations surrounding the rockets mean a lot of the bigger rockets have no being banned, or theres more empty space in the rocket head.
The thing that concerns me is that traditionaly the normal garden firework was what is known as cat2, with the bigger stuff cat3 and pro stuff cat4. Know if you go in to almost any supermarket you can now buy cat3 fireworks over the counter, where the minimum safety distance is 25m as opposed to 5m for cat 2, how many gardens have 25m clearenceall round for fireworks? not many i'd guess.
Anyway thats enough rambling from me i'm off to fire a show.
my labs I used to have would look vaguely confused at fireworks as if the bang should mean something but they were not quite sure what and then they went back to sleep, the lurcher however is not keen if she's out in the open when there going off. Not too bothered when curled up on the sofa with me though.
sounds like vietnam 1972 here .....
Ban them to the public that or let me buy some C4 so I can really blow something up.
Bit like when they filmed the start of bombing in Bagdad here
There was a story on the local news tonight that a spar shop in Workington(?) had stopped a 14year old kid from buying the sun for his dad cos it had a nude women in it???????????????????????????????
for the record, my dog goes crazy with panic for a 2 week period around now she hates the things. Have currently got 2 tv's blaring, radio 1 playings its usual crap and the Queens of the Stone Age going on this here PC. My neighbours will be round soon to complain of MY anti social noise, not that of the fireworks.
Its the local bonfires that bug me, fences and bits of trees have been going missing for weeks.
Just finished blowing some good stuff up for a school display - I love it!