Quote: Originally posted by Brommo on 11/11/2017
Yes you get morons using fireworks but they are far outnumbered by the people that use them sensibly for enjoyment
But you and all the other people using them 'sensibly' for their own enjoyment just don't get it do you.
Every time you set off a barrage of loud explosive fireworks within a residential area, which I assume gives you immense enjoyment and pleasure, somebody a few hundred yards away is tearing their hair out trying to console and pacify a terrified pet. That pet may well be traumatised for the rest of it's life thanks to you and those other 'sensible' people.
All the wildlife for miles around scatter in all directions thinking their world is about to end...foxes, rabbits, birds, deer, badgers, to name just a few. There may well be terror stricken cattle, sheep and horses in nearby fields. Perhaps not too far away is a sick person lying in bed trying to rest or an old person who remembers the war years and is in the habit of going to bed in the late evening who is awoken by the unexpected sounds of deafening explosions.
The victims of fireworks may not be the ones at your 'sensible' party...they are the ones you don't see and maybe don't even know.
If rockets and loud explosions give you that much pleasure that you are prepared to upset many of your neighbours, terrify pets, farm animals and wildlife and cause distress to many other people, why not join the army...you'll get all the fun you need, and more.
... But please be warned that if you do enlist, and you happen to then be called to arms during your service, you may become as scared 5h*tless of those very same loud celebratory explosions as those aforementioned kittens, puppies and blitz survivors, upon your return to Civvy Street!
Just sayin'.
Hi fireworks should be confined to organized sites, instead of selling them to under age persons and causing the fire brigade and the ambulance service to be called when they burn themselves or others ,they can cause fires intentional or not ,if they were banned there would not be so much hassle for these small shops selling high powered fireworks if they were banned anybody setting off fireworks can be arrested and fined.
Unfortunately the police aren't too interested in firework offences. If you call them when fireworks are being let off illegally, by the time they arrive the culprits are long gone.
I called the police when I thought illegal display fireworks were being used near my house. They couldn't even be bothered to turn up and just phoned me the next day asking if I would like to see someone about my complaint. I said I did, so they sent round a community officer who didn't know the first thing about the law on fireworks and she didn't even bother to make any local enquiries.
I ended up doing my own enquires. I searched the area for evidence and discovered from the spent cases that they were legal category 3 fireworks and not illegal display ones as I first thought. I was later told who was responsible and managed to get it stopped via the housing association because they were using a field on housing association land but one to which the public had access...so not strictly legal.
They then started using their private gardens so I was stumped but they seem to have stopped now. I believe other neighbours also complained.
I was disgusted at the response I got from the police. They don't seem much interested in any local issues now and use community officers who know little or nothing about the law. Hardly worth calling them. I am not too sure what they do take seriously these days apart from drunken driving!
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Topic: Fireworks
