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Posted: 11/3/2009 3:45:33 PM | Firework drive me nuts...the kids near me think letting them off at 12 o'clock at night in a residential area is fun grrr...
My daughter was woken up the other night crying because they scared her in her sleep. They are dangerous and it seems that despite the age restriction on the sale of fireworks they still end up in the hand of little idiots who like to terrorise everyone else.
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Posted: 11/3/2009 6:18:10 PM | Could I have the GPS co-ordinates of your farm...
I'm launching a Scud on Nov 5 and need a landing zone .... 
PS.. No warhead ..  | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 5:11:16 AM | & my point proven my idoits like " the theory of everything"
they see it as a joke that animals are attacked either pets or farm animals !
& if into bargin the can scare people even better & if the can start a huge fire even better if that results in a business going under , they think they so clever ! | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 12:59:12 PM | | All the examples in this thread of 'hilarious' events involving fireworks are classic examples of why they should be banned. They're dangerous in the hands of the public. Putting an explosive in a milk bottle and hoping it doesn't fall over? Madness | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 1:11:13 PM | One of our local "Narcotic Entrepreneurs" would set off a rocket whenever he had fresh stock in 
I think the controls should be tighter, they've been going off all over town for many days now, at all hours! Though saying that, I do miss, as a youth, blowing up various plastic containers though and trying to skim rockets across the local resevoir though Back yard displys tend be shite, I'd much rather go to a public display with a massive bonfire and more fireworks than you could possibly afford by yourself! | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 8:58:31 PM | | Lincolnshire Sausage, that a good point why they going off morning noon & night, dont these people have jobs to go to, hell else can the afford to be blowing £££ fireworks up each & every nite & afternoon. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 10:08:43 AM | | Well Im shortly off to an organised fire display with my two kids tickets cost £9 for all of us, which is cheaper than a box of fireworks from the supermarkets, no doubt my kids will enjoy it lots and we shall be having Hot Chocolate and Marshmellows when we get home. If fireworks were banned from general public sale, you can still go and enjoy the night at an organised display for a fraction of the cost of a medium sized box of crappy whizz pop fire works, from the ASDA. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 10:16:02 AM | Haha our organised display is FREE and it is always fantastic, just getting ready to head out, blast off is 7.30 and I can't wait, just had our hot dogs and already been outside to do the sparklers as they are not allowed at the display | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 1:58:52 PM | Msg 28...
\\my idoits like " the theory of everything"\\
Aww bless, don't blame them, i'm a very affable fellow, whatever your idoits are?
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Posted: 11/5/2009 2:03:39 PM | We always have a street bonfire party on the Saturday nearest 5th November.
My son and his mates have been gathering bonfire material for the past couple of months, my double garage is full of old chairs, beds, fence panels etc etc. and my neighbours garden is full of wooden palletts from the factory their lad works at.
The bonfire this year will be huge!
We collect money from all the neighbours for the fireworks and my job is to do a 250 mile round trip tomorrow to get our fireworks from the Standard Fireworks Factory shop in Huddersfield. Last year I got nearly £1,000 worth of display fireworks for only £300.
The area where we set the firworks off is roped off and we have some of the neighbours on 'safety duty' making sure that no one gets hurt or does anything silly. This will be our 13th year of doing this and it's great fun. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 3:22:09 AM | Was it 5th November last night?
Twas very quiet, hardly anyone having parties!
Just like this thread, gone quiet...
Time to liven it up...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fF8SvRRqF8&feature=related
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Posted: 11/6/2009 3:26:59 AM |
Last year I got nearly £1,000 worth of display fireworks for only £300
feck me..thats good..if you know of a place were i can get £1000 worth of cider for £300..please let me know... | |
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Posted: 11/7/2009 10:37:25 AM | Here we are then.......the third night of explosions all around!
On Thursday there was the "arranged" "official" display in the park.
On Friday there were some in peoples gardens, and a smattering of idiots in the local streets.
And tonight, so far, there have been two "displays" in neighbours gardens. Two of the rockets so far have made my windows vibrate!
I'm braced for the idiots when the pubs chuck out........ | |
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Posted: 11/7/2009 11:10:46 AM | I love a good fireworks display, and don't mind them being on sale to the general public as long as they are being used responsibly.
I live in a terraced cottage with a small back yard. Another row of cottages with small yards backing on to ours. Lots of young families, elderly people and pets live in our streets. Yet the idiots nearby thought it fine to let off fireworks in their back yards, the sound being multiplied by the echoing between the houses, pets, young children and the elderly being woken and upset (it was well after 10pm). Never mind the potential fire and health and safety hazard of setting them off in such an enclosed area. | |
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Posted: 11/7/2009 12:50:44 PM | Yep, sounds like world war 3 outside tonight too, despite it absolutely pee'ing it down. Where I live it's like this for a month solid. Night after night there are kids firing fireworks p and down the street at each other, firing them at cars, stealing fence panels (and even a neighbours dog kennel at one point) to have a bonfire at the top of the road. Honestly it's like Baghdad around these parts this time of year 
I hate the things, absolutely hate them and think they should be banned from sale to the public simply because of their lethality. Many many years ago, some kids attacked my old man and stuck a small banger thing down the back of his shirt. For nothing more than they thought it was a laugh. I'm sure y'all can imagine what his back looks like now. | |
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Posted: 11/7/2009 1:25:52 PM | "We always have a street bonfire party on the Saturday nearest 5th November.
We collect money from all the neighbours for the fireworks and my job is to do a 250 mile round trip tomorrow to get our fireworks from the Standard Fireworks Factory shop in Huddersfield. Last year I got nearly £1,000 worth of display fireworks for only £300.
The area where we set the firworks off is roped off and we have some of the neighbours on 'safety duty' making sure that no one gets hurt or does anything silly. This will be our 13th year of doing this and it's great fun."
That's all well and good, do you take out public liability insurance for the event?
Our local school PTA used to organized their own display, I asked them once if they realized that they had a thatched cottage next door ' didn't even think of that' was their answer and the cottage was already old when Guy Fawkes bought his gunpowder! I later found out that they didn't even inform the fire brigade. So much for responsible people organizing their own event.
enjoy fireworks safely, Professional displays only no sales to the general public at all. | |
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Posted: 11/7/2009 1:39:35 PM | | I have hardly heard any fireworks since the night itself, not a single one has gone off round here tonight. It has actually been strangely quiet for this time of year. | |
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Posted: 11/7/2009 1:41:32 PM | I agree that the sale of fireworks to the general public should be banned. Far too many people around who simply don't care where they let the things off and the potential damage they can cause.
Look at what happened to the poor woman who had one posted through her letterbox. Burned to death in her own home, leaving her 17 year old son without a mother. | |
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