Boyz firing fireworks at people with kids near Dulwich Park

[Wimpole]

...on Saturday morning at the bottom of Eynella Road by Dulwich Park. One rocket passed me and my 3 year old by approx 8 yards. Several hit houses on the street. Three kids about 10 or 12 years old who looked like they had just finished sports training nearby. Stuff like this I wont miss when I leave the London grime.

[JohnL]

Saw something similar near Brixton - same age. Haven't seen any firework danger warnings this year.

[Parkdrive]

What makes you think this is unique to London?

[JohnL]

It's not unique to London - and it's the children themselves usually most at danger.

[Orange owl]

Eynella road,Dulwich park. Deep in the grime really

[Wimpole]

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> What makes you think this is unique to London?

Where did I say it was unique to London? Any big city more likely. Perhaps it's getting older and having a family. But I'm up for trading off the vibrant, diverse choice London offers for somewhere less urban shit and quite possibly a tad boring.

[Parkdrive]

Wimpole Wrote:

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> Parkdrive Wrote:

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> > What makes you think this is unique to London?

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> Where did I say it was unique to London? Any big

> city more likely. Perhaps it's getting older and

> having a family. But I'm up for trading off the

> vibrant, diverse choice London offers for

> somewhere less urban shit and quite possibly a tad

> boring.

You mentioned London grime so the association is there

[Earl Aelfheah]

Bored kids in provincial towns are as bad, if not worse.

[red devil]

Orange owl Wrote:

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> Eynella road,Dulwich park. Deep in the grime

> really

Stormzy in the 'hood...

[alice]

Teacup

[Sue]

Crikey, kids in the fifties used to throw fireworks about in the street all the time around 5 November.

Admittedly it was quite scary, but I expect that was the intention.

[Louisa]

This has to be the most non-thread I've seen in ages. Kids throwing fireworks around the 5th of November. It happens everywhere this time of year. If not more so in provincial town England.

The middle classes are scared of their own shadow.

Louisa.

[ruffers]

No one said they were scared.

[Louisa]

Eynella Road sounds horrific, I don't know how people sleep at night in such a rough poverty ridden street. All those fireworks being thrown around. I can see why so many people are now moving out to beautiful market towns like Lewes, oh wait a minute...

Louisa.

[JohnL]

The jumping jacks were scary (not when we played with them but now I look back). We put them in peoples (meaning other childrens) pockets :) How we made it to adulthood.

Anyway I think this thread happens every year.

[red devil]

Bangers in Parka/Snorkel hoods...

[Robert Poste's Child]

Chucking firecrackers is one thing, and I certainly remember teenagers setting off rockets from milk bottles at night, but surely the OP deserves a bit of sympathy? Kids may been doing that kind of thing for the last fifty years but every year people are injured or killed as a result.

[DovertheRoad]

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[Wimpole]

Loving your work all - above.

This was three kids firing full sized rockets on sticks using a plastic tube at a height of about 5 feet off the ground. A few yards ahead of my 3 year old kid. Yeah it happens somewhere every year at this time. Doesn't mean its ok. Or that it couldn't scar or injure someone for life. If you all think its ok /normal /acceptable /a non thread then well....

[Dog duck]

Of course it's not ok but presumably you reported it to the not very well funded police and realised you may not gain much comfort on this forum?

[Nigello]

vibrant, diverse choice London offers <<< Hackneyed claptrap that serves to disguise (some) unpleasant and antisocial behaviour. Throwing gunpowdered rockets around isn't a good idea.

[civilservant]

kids letting off fireworks at people is ok because

- they do it everywhere, not just in London

- they used to do it when i was a kid

- they're doing it in Eynella road so it's only affecting the posh-os

so nothing to worry about. have i understood right?

actually, the stats show that fireworks hurt nearly 5000 people in england badly enough for them to have to go to A&E in 2014/15

[red devil]

civilservant Wrote:

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> so nothing to worry about. have i understood

> right?

Not really. The OP wrongly thinks they won't encounter this particular behavior outside of London...

[civilservant]

red devil Wrote:

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> > so nothing to worry about. have i understood

> > right?

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> Not really. The OP wrongly thinks they won't

> encounter this particular behavior outside of

> London...

true, thanks RD - but something to worry about wherever, right?

[red devil]

Absolutely, I'm sure there are tragic incidents every year associated with fireworks/bonfires etc, and children need to be taught of the dangers.

Had the OP not written that last sentence then I think there would've been more sympathetic comments, but once someone starts 'dissing' where they live you're bound to get other local people who will object to that...