Fireworks

[Newportnobby]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/zebra-called-hope-born-start-171932056.html

[Trainfish]

You must be reading my mind, I was about to post that too. It has put me right off buying a zebra too  :'(

[Bob Tidbury]

 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

[Steven B]

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.

[daffy]

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!!!

[Trainfish]

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 

[daffy]

With 4 similar incidents reported at widely distant locations I am left wondering whether there is Social Media interaction at play here, with each  or group of  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).

[guest311]

" oh, don't be too hard on them, they probably had a deprived childhood - missed an episode of some  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? '

[Railwaygun]

" oh, don't be too hard on them, they probably had a deprived childhood - missed an episode of some  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!

[guest311]

courtesy of the Winter of 79 blog.