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. 

I was going to pen a reply to the above comments by @daffy and then I thought, "better not, I might get thrown off the forum for voicing political opinions". 

That's a shame David. @dannyboy .  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

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 

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. 

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.