Anybody fed up with hearing fireworks going off every night. One of my cats is scared stiff, sick of it, it is time they were banned. All you here is bang! bang! bang!, they are not nice fireworks just ruddy bombs.
Yes completely agree feed up with it several nights now, yesterday was very noisy but it was 5th, gone quite here since I heard a low flying helicopter (assume police).
Ban private sales and control / restrict large events.
Rockets launched at emergency services personnel.
Exploding star shells and sundry other pyrotechnics thrown at the Police.
Fires destroying property due to accidental or deliberate firework usage.
Animals frightened.
Animals killed - as in a house fire today when a firework was thrown through a letterbox.
People injured through misuse and misadventure adding more pressure on overworked NHS workers.
Yes, it's time we stopped this stupidity.
Quote from: lil chris on November 06, 2020, 07:10:54 PM
Anybody fed up with hearing fireworks going off every night. One of my cats is scared stiff, sick of it, it is time they were banned. All you here is bang! bang! bang!, they are not nice fireworks just ruddy bombs.
It amazes me that in this day and age the public are allowed to purchase explosives over the counter. My mum (83) can't stand the noise. In Birmingham they've had lowlifes firing rockets at pedestrians from moving cars. In Walsall they set them off in the daytime (doh!). Ban 'em for me. :veryangry:
I was going to pen a reply to the above comments by @daffy (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=5634) and then I thought, "better not, I might get thrown off the forum for voicing political opinions". ;)
That's a shame David. @dannyboy (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=4209) . I was hoping to read some of your choice comments by torchlight that would make me go
"Ooooooooohhhh!"
and
"Aaaaahhh!"
as I eat my foil wrapped jacket potato while wearing woolly gloves (slightly singed) and waving a red hot length of sparkling wire around as I stand next to a lidless tin that once held a Family Assortment of biscuits but now bulges with Payne's and Standard's finest selection of incendiary devices.
"Whooosh!"
Although I hate the fireworks, mainly as they scare the life out of my cat, I do try to balance this with the fact I always enjoyed fireworks as a kid and therefore I've now become someone who complains as much as older people no doubt did when I was young. However, fireworks in the 50s were more visual than audible, whereas nowadays the earth shakes when some go off. Why is noise the big attraction? ???
I'll not voice my opinion of the feral scrotes who mis-use them, but would agree fireworks now should be limited to public displays and limited to maybe a week instead of it being spread over 4-5 weeks, although Covid and the lack of money has reduced that drastically this year.
And what pillock decided birthdays and New Year should be celebrated with them? They never used to be :confused2:
Poor Henry (our cat) spends these evenings under a duvet. If it was on the 5th only then I could live with it but now it goes on for days. Plus around here, we have them over Christmas, New Year etc.
Kind regards
Paddy
We used to have a bonfire night here mid winter, and I actually remember buying fireworks and putting on a show at Chez Bealman back in the early eighties.
However that's all gone now. Fireworks have not been sold to the NSW public since the eighties.
We still like having fireworks (although we didn't this year) and so do the kids. We've tried the organised events and they are awful - a huge, dense crowd, making it impossible to keep together with the kids or to find them if you are separated; a muddy mess due to the damp ground and thousands of people; and the last time we went, a woman right next to us hit by a firework when the display was affected by gusts of wind. In previous years someone was hurt and a nearby house hit and set on fire! I feel much happier with things under our control, where we can move to another night if it is windy or pouring with rain; where we are not hemmed in by a crowd and where we can nip inside to warm up or go to the toilet.
well thanks for all the comments, it seems most of us are in aggreement. One of my two cat's Misty the one with the white nose has been hiding nearly all week. All you can here in my loft railway room is banging all night, its terrible. Time to ban them methinks.
Quote from: stevewalker on November 06, 2020, 11:01:29 PM
We've tried the organised events and they are awful - a huge, dense crowd, making it impossible to keep together with the kids or to find them if you are separated; a muddy mess due to the damp ground and thousands of people..............
I don't actually understand why people pay to go into a firework display. The display at the football ground near me sets off the fireworks which then go into the air and explode. If I wanted to see them I would just stand in the garden, look upwards with a beer in my hand, able to escape the rain, not get glued into the mud and I wouldn't have to queue up to use a tardis if I hadn't gone before I left home. If I lived further away I'd just park nearby and look up etc etc.
I don't want to see them anyway. I'm usually comforting the 2 cats before they disappear under the sofa and get squashed if I sit on it. The firework season usually starts just before Halloween and takes a break just after new year apart from as Mick says, birthdays, christenings, funerals etc.
So, who thinks we're a pet loving country anyway? The firework letter offers certainly aren't :veryangry:
As a kid in the UK I'd stock up with penny bangers and get up to all sorts of mischief. Now fireworks just bore me.
Every New Year, fireworks on Sydney Harbour. Costs God knows what, and the same old thing. Fire falling into the water from underneath the harbour bridge and shooting into the air off the top of it.
Big yawn. :sleep:
My most memorable bonfire night was in the early eighties when I drove from Slough to Bridgend.
A 3 hour long firework display.
I love fireworks. The 5th of November is an intrinsic part of British culture; banning fireworks, which are a celebration of the institution of the monarchy, would, in my opinion, be treason.
Quote from: Yet_Another on November 07, 2020, 12:07:46 PM
The 5th of November is an intrinsic part of British culture; banning fireworks, which are a celebration of the institution of the monarchy, would, in my opinion, be treason.
Yeah but the tradition is November 5th, not idiots letting them off for days either side of the event. It's accepted that pet owners need to keep the little critters indoors and calm for that evening, and the nearest weekend to that date to allow for folk who couldn't make a weekday event.
It's quite interesting to see on our local town facebook group, when the fireworks started several days ago we had a few complaint posts and "please be considerate to pets and others" type of posts which prompted a lot of agreement but also some "we'll do what we like it's our lifestyle choice" responses. Yet since the 5th the posts have all been people seemingly trying to be considerate and notifying they intend to let off a few and when.
I love fireworks and so does my cat.
He's not deaf. He just ignores anything and everything.
Bob
part husky by any chance :'(
Funny how all the dog owners who abhor noise suddenly go deaf when their little darling barks its head off.
Quote from: class37025 on November 07, 2020, 03:25:39 PM
part husky by any chance :'(
part fruit bowl
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Quote from: OffshoreAlan on November 07, 2020, 03:31:04 PM
Funny how all the dog owners who abhor noise suddenly go deaf when their little darling barks its head off.
luckily HB doesn't bark, but he does 'sing' or 'talk'.
I've always believed in a short sharp 'NO' which would stop a shepherd from barking, but of course Huskies are a rule unto themselves, though a sharp 'NO' will work, sometimes.
I was told at the beginning of my RAFP QPD course that there are no bad dogs, only bad handlers, and I have found over the years since then that that is true.
IDOs [Idiot Dog Owners] who can't be bothered to train their dogs in even basic obedience / who don't clean up after them / who always blame other owners even when their dogs [off lead usually with IDO on phone] start fights with dogs on leads, / and take no notice whatsoever of what their dogs are doing, again usually because too busy on their phones.
I am continually convinced that in maybe 90% of the dog owner population, it's the clip end of the lead that is more intelligent than the loop end.
I will say no more.
Well the fireworks have started again here tonight, my cat is in hiding again.
Yep, our three are in and have taken to their respective bomb shelters.
When did it become necessary to have such loud bangs? Can't we ban the bangs and just stick to pretty colours and the odd woosh like we used to have years ago?
how come it is ok to send explosive into the air making very loud noises but people complain about me playing my music in my car, no I do not play too loud!
Best wishes
Simon
1 of my cats has been with me all day and evening and loves the new carpet in the garage. The other eventually came in around 9pm once the fireworks had subsided.
Here in Holland the government is planning to ban fireworks on New Year's Eve (the traditional firework night). Should make things a bit quieter, though no doubt the illegal fireworks will still get through...
The Hindu festival of Dwali is about now and they celebrate with lots of firecrackers etc.
Martin
Not been so bad tonight, some went off half a hour ago.
QuoteHere in Holland the government is planning to ban fireworks on New Year's Eve
what about
queens kings day? If you think its bad in the uk try visiting some of the spanish festivals or vietnam during the chinese new year
Quote from: Bealman on November 06, 2020, 10:49:27 PM
We used to have a bonfire night here mid winter, and I actually remember buying fireworks and putting on a show at Chez Bealman back in the early eighties.
However that's all gone now. Fireworks have not been sold to the NSW public since the eighties.
Qld banned fireworks in early 70s. Something to do with regularly setting the bush alight and the odd idiot damaging themselves. Eyes and fingers seemed to suffer the most.
Miss the fireworks in the backyard, marble cannons, exploding and flying tins! :(
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/zebra-called-hope-born-start-171932056.html
You must be reading my mind, I was about to post that too. It has put me right off buying a zebra too :'(
I spent over an hour last night trying to calm our little dog she was shaking so bad I even had a job to pick her up .
I agree that for some reason fireworks are now all about how B****y loud they can get ,they used to be how colourfull and how they could get different patterns in the sky ,When we used to go to Henley on `Thames Regata the firework display used to have things like galleons fireing at each other all done with fireworks ,and I remember one year they had a huge airship made out of fireworks and as it came over the crowd it dropped loads of parachutes containing sweets .
Non of the fireworks even the battle scenes were that loud that they would frighten any animal as much as they do today .
Bob Tidbury
I've known Springer Spaniels (i.e. a gundog breed!) shake in fright whilst my old cat couldn't care less.
Fireworks don't need to be baned, just better controlled. A couple of bits of legislation are needed:
Restrict the period when fireworks can be used without a license (e.g. between the weekends either side of 5th Nov and New Year's Eve & religious festivals) -
outside of these periods (e.g. weddings, concerts etc) a simple license is needed from the local council.
Then, a restriction is needed on the volume level of the bangs.
The trouble is now we're a little nation afloat in the North Sea we're going to struggle with the noise level without the support of larger markets such as the USA or EU. We can make the law but are we a big enough market to want to continue selling to?
Steven B.
Yesterday I read headlines that made me sick:
"Zebra named Hope, born in March before the Ist lockdown, killed by fireworks" (apparently spooked by a series of nearby loud bangs and stampeded into fence and was killed.
"Rabbit has heart attack and dies after loud firework explosions nearby".
A dog was reported to have died in a similar way elsewhere.
Today the Independent has this headline:
Two cats killed after fireworks were strapped to them and set alight
Bodies of both animals found with significant burns
"The bodies of both animals were found with significant burns and the devices still attached following the attacks in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and Queensferry in Deeside.
Two other similar incidents were reported in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and Kenilworth, Warwickshire, but in both those cases the cats are thought to have survived."
Enough is enough!!! :veryangry: :censored: :censored:
IF they ever catch those responsible they should do the same to them with fireworks attached to their ears and other sensitive areas. I can't type here what else I would do to them as it would probably lead to me being arrested. That's absolutely despicable >:D
With 4 similar incidents reported at widely distant locations I am left wondering whether there is Social Media interaction at play here, with each :censored: or group of :censored: s vying with each other.
Or perhaps it's just cos they're thick, stupid, uncaring and suitable only for (insert your own choice here).
" oh, don't be too hard on them, they probably had a deprived childhood - missed an episode of some :censored: soap, or couldn't have the latest game for their PS whatsit / Nintendo etc "
personally I'd just give them a good dose of the birch - that would teach them a lesson.
cue all the softy dogooders bleating about violence doesn't solve things ...
it doesn't, but
a good solid punishment teaches most people not to do it again, and the threat deters a lot.
it's the namby pamby attitude over the last decades that has bred a total comtempt for law, order and rules, cause 'what you going to do to me? '
Quote from: class37025 on November 11, 2020, 05:02:30 PM
" oh, don't be too hard on them, they probably had a deprived childhood - missed an episode of some :censored: soap, or couldn't have the latest game for their PS whatsit / Nintendo etc "
personally I'd just give them a good dose of the birch - that would teach them a lesson.
cue all the softy dogooders bleating about violence doesn't solve things ...
it doesn't, but
a good solid punishment teaches most people not to do it again, and the threat deters a lot.
it's the namby pamby attitude over the last decades that has bred a total comtempt for law, order and rules, cause 'what you going to do to me? '
Gentlemen, please calm down, or we will have to arm the Traffic wardens!
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