General Chat

Sorry Janet, but I say TOUGH! They can still have a bonfire with the guy and all the food, but I still say ban fireworks! They are dangerous, and what people forget is that they are explosives! Not only that, bt as they said on the news this morning, sencond to those that happen in the street by irresponsible teenagers, the highest rate of accidents is from home displays.

Paul, How would you explain to the handful of children who live in a remote rural area, where there is no organised display, and no public transport to travel to a display, that they may not celebrate Bonfire Night in the usual way, like the rest of the country???? Jay

Yes they should. I think people who have their own displays are selfish, and inconsiderate.

I appreciate what you're saying, Dea, but I think there are two polarised points of view - one being those who would state it is their right to let off fireworks at events (within the limitations of the law) and the other being those who are on the receiving end of noises they don't want to hear. Unfortunately, this applies to many situations. Living in a rural area, I find the noise of guns at shoots frightening (apart from the moral issue of raising birds purely to slaughter them later in the year) and I don't like being terrified by the sudden very loud noise of fighter jets, especially at night. However, if we want an airforce that is constantly fully prepared, then I understand that someone has to put up with it. I don't like the racket of my neighbour's helicopter when he returns home from work each day, but I suppose he would say it's essential - it's his source of income. When Concord was still active, she made a tremendous noise, daily, if you were in the flight path. So, as far as I am concerned, a few fireworks on Bonfire Night or New Years Eve makes little difference. Jay

Roger Sorry... don't know how old you are and don't want to sound sanctimonious .....or a killjoy..... I was a 999 operator and the horror stories I've heard on and around 5th Nov have scarred me. Kids will always run into the road.Parents can't be there 24/7. All I'd say is enjoy fireworks.. but make them safer Sorry Cax

I appreciate what some are saying here about killjoys, but the fact is that fireworks today are bigger and louder than they were when we were young. Also a lot of people nowadays have less of a social conscience than years ago, and couldn't give a damn whom they disturb..they see it as their RIGHT to do what they like, when they like, regardless of the distress it causes to others in the vicinity. Why oh why should WE have to put up with these huge banging fireworks night after night? If everybody kept to November 5th ONLY, we would only have to put up with it for ONE night. But if little Johnny's birthday falls two weeks either side of that, or someone has anything else to celebrate, or they just like loud bangs...its a finger to the neighbours....and lets have the biggest loudest fireworks we can buy! I believe the only answer is to ban the sale of all fireworks to the public, and allow only organised displays Dee x

Most definitely - lets watch the displays by the professionals.

if you were setting them off in your own garden wouldn`t you be carefull !!!!!!!!!!! we light them and run, kids are watching out the window okay for me sharon

Well if kids want to run into the road, its the parents fault not a firework.

No!!! I loved them as a child, but our fireworks were set off in a grass field and by our Dads. Instead of getting rid of the fireworks, introduce severe penalties for those who misuse them and set an age limit for those allowed to handle them. Jay

More kids are killed on the roads so are we going to ban cars next, and make public transport the only way you can travel. That is what i mean by being killjoys, where does it stop.

Ban the sale to the general public and have only licenced displays. I have never liked them, not even as a child, and while my dad was in the garden letting off a seven-and-sixpenny box of fireworks, I was hiding in the front room with my hands over my ears. Better to be a killjoy than a killchild. OC

YES !!! *shouts loudly from under the table*

If the americans jumped in the fire half of Britian would follow Lol Honestly, the fireworks as a kid were a laugh, you were all stood there waiting for this big bang and it just fizzled out pmsl the only things that worked were the sparklers. Can you still get coloured matches, they were magic lol Good old days.

Why, when you were young I bet you had fireworks to many kill joys now

Nooo, of course they shouldn't. What should happen though, is that stringent regulations should be applied to control their use.

Yvonne Agree with you why do why have copy the yanks? Maybe we should start inventing new events... be a bit more original? lol caz

They should bring back the fireworks we had has a child, all standing well away in the yard waiting for the Catherine wheel to go round, we all stood amazed when it did, cos half the fireworks didnt work in them days. lol Displays only and ban them altogether, should ban Halloween as well.

Like the fire service said on the tele tonite alcohol and fireworks don't mix .my brother done something ver irresponsible at his fireworks party a few years ago..he tied three foreworks togethre.least to say he had a drink and a good telling off from me afterwards!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx((((:

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