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Should we ban fireworks?

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mike142sl:
Voted NO

But Today (Sat 3rd) should be the first day they can be purchased for Bonfire Night.

I organise a big display for our Scout Group. All Parents and families are invited as are the Church family that sponsors the Group. We organise the fire and sell burgers etc and we ask that each family brings one large firework. These are collected at the start and a couple of adults light them about 50m away with protective gear etc. Display lasts about 30-40 minutes. We all have a great time and raise a couple of hundred quid for the Group at the same time.

Budgie:
Up here on the island it's fine, very few fireworks get set off, but my parents live in Southampton and if I got to visit them any time between late September through to January then you can hear fireworks going off every night, sometimes up to 1am.
One night would be fine but having the things going off for months on end, at all times of the night, is just not on.  :evil:

Another thing, people use this time of year to get rid of their out-of-date red distress flares. If you have any of these then don't fire them unless you are in distress as the Coastguard are required to investigate any reports of distress flares, which could involve launching Lifeboats, scrambling helicopters or sending Coastguard Rescue Teams out which is not only wasting then time of the Coastguard, but also costs the Tax Payer hundreds of thousands of pounds each year but is also illegal and if caught you will be charge as if you had made a false 999 call.
And don't think that just because you're not near the coast that it'll be alright because it's not. The Police and Mountain Rescue Teams have the same problems.
If you want to dispose of out-of-date flares then they can be returned to the place that you bought them from or your nearest Coastguard Station has limited storage for these.

Range Rover Blues:
I like setting them off in the privacy of a suitable garden too, but I'm sick and tired of having to stay in with the dogs for a fortnight around this time of year.  The damn things have been going off for a week already and when you get muppets like the women in JTF last night "which of these are the loudest" :roll:

And they were still going off at after 1 in the morning.

But the final straw was the one some little **** put inside a beer bottle and fired at my LSE last year :evil:   If I ever caught him I'd give him a rocket he'd not forget.

Fireworks are explosives and quite frankly there are too many people who are not trustworth yenough to have them.  Licenced operators only should have them.

Oh yeah, I'm sick of picking the empties up too and all those iron filing falling on my car.........

thermidorthelobster:
I'm a miserable git and think you might as well just set fire to wads of five pound notes.  They cause misery to pets and quite apart from the yobs there are plenty of idiotic adults each year who should know better but still manage to cause major injuries!  So I'm with the ban!   =;

Guardian.:
YOU MISERABLE GIT :lol:  :lol:

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