E-petition re fireworks

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No fireworks Ot?

Not even a squib?

[numbers]

I'm rubbish at this, aren't I?

[Mustard]

It's not 2 weeks since I last posted on here. I did hear some after I posted, but didn't feel a burning desire to post about them. They were more distant than some of the others.

[Otta]

Ironically after taking the piss on here last night, there were some that went off at midnight close to where I live.

[Alan Medic]

Who missed the hundred?

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Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Who missed the hundred?

Otta - which is why I questioned his lack of pyrotechnical celebration - keep up old son.

[Alan Medic]

Bet I'm older than you Dad.

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your mum

[Mustard]

Someone is letting fireworks off now. Morons. Last night they were let off before midnight and after midnight, at about 3 am.

[Otta]

So first post on this thread for three weeks.

I totally agree that those letting them off late at night this weekend need a slap, but is it really fair to be calling for a total ban rather than just addressing the idiots that have no consideration?

[Mustard]

It wasn't me that started either of those petitions, but if it makes lawmakers look again at the current rules, which appear to be lax, then that's a good thing.

More were let off last night. It appears to be about the noise factor with a lot of them.

If you can think about how to address these idiots then do share!

[Mustard]

Fireworks started here already. Finding it hard to believe.

They were also going of in the last few days, also in daytime as well as night.

[david_carnell]

Gosh, yes, fireworks on NYE - who'd have thunk it?

Those people and their fun.....where will it end?

[Mustard]

I expect fireworks NYE at night, when it is dark, New Year's Eve! but not in broad daylight.

Keeping my fingers crossed for rain tonight.

[DulwichFox]

So people complain when Fireworks are set off at night and then others

complain when they are set off during the day.

Having attended Carnival in Catalonia and other parts of Europe I can tell

you daytime Fireworks are very common.

Some of the biggest displays in the World are in the daytime.

One of the Worlds biggest:- Mathaf Opening of Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gzl47oXrdo

Google and you will find many more.

DulwichFox

[Mustard]

Tell Boris, he missed a trick to make some more money by having both day and evening displays.

[DulwichFox]

Posted in wrong tread

DulwichFox

[2degreesfrommadness]

SSssshhhh - cant hear the fireworks, too many people on their keyboards typing complaints.

live and let live !

[Chunksmum]

Just signed both petitions. Really distressing night for my dog & toddler. Would like a ban to the public for private use and just keep them for public displays. We get the all year round not just Guy Fawkes & NYE anymore. It's just the really offensive loud bang ones that people now seem to be setting off, they sound like bombs and they're rubbish compared to the other quieter fireworks that are at least pretty to look at.

[Otta]

"all year round".

Utter rubbish.

[Robert Poste's Child]

I was in a small town in Taiwan a few years ago and saw people casually pile up firecrackers in the street and then set light to them. It was just outside a busy cafe, with cars parked on both sides of the road, in the middle of the afternoon. No one turned a hair (except me, the only westerner present). In Amsterdam at New Year I've had firecrackers thrown at me while cycling as snow was falling, and narrowly avoided rockets that people were letting off in the street.

While I'm not a fan of the noisy kind of firework and I'd be in favour of a noise limit, it's actually pretty under control here when you compare with other places.

[Mustard]

That reminds me of when I was driving near Hampstead Heath one day, just near William Ellis school. School children were letting off fireworks on the pavement and throwing them in the street at the cars.

[Chunksmum]

Yes Otta, we get them all year round as in several times a year. We have lots of religious festivals which my neighbours have firework celebrations for Eid, Diwali, then there is Guy Fawkes, NYE and random parties too.

[Otta]

So it's the odd night throughout the year, it's not all year round.

[Chunksmum]

Well obviously not all year round in the sense of everyday if that's what you mean? Actually I'm not sure what you mean or why you are picking me up on it. I said all year round as in several times a year, throughout the year, does it matter anyway! It's bloody annoying regardless of how often it is.