Fireworks

[4F]

We were responsibly irresponsible when we were kids... used to buy bangers, go to a deserted spot, light a banger and ride over it on our bikes before it went off... Now of course, i think they should be banned.

I shudder at the memories I have as an irresponsible youth buggering around with fireworks and how dangerous our firework fights were.

I agree, I think they should be banned as well.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Anyone who ever brought those red chinese bangers back from France when they were young and lobbed them about like a loon should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[rh100]

the things that worry me are those chinese lanterns - arne't they a fire hazard?

called sky lanterns aswel - the floating ones

 

[trustysteed]

when we were kids we use to mix hydraulic brake fluid with pool-cleaning chlorine powder and run!

also used to start a small fire at the back of the garden and throw an aerosol can on it just to see what happened.

best way to learn chemistry!

 

[Dayvo]

Anyone who ever brought those red chinese bangers back from France when they were young and lobbed them about like a loon should be ashamed of themselves.

How. on. earth. could. you. be. so. irresponsible?

 

[trustysteed]

it's those damn irresponsible wizards like gandalf who let great flaming flying dragon-like fireworks loose and completely out of control that spoils it for the rest of us.

 

[CopperBrompton]

I am in agreement with you about selling fireworks to the public though, it is about time that they were banned for private use.

Quite so. Same with bicycles for leisure use: it's just pointless fun and results in countless injuries each year. Ban everything, I say!

 

[Fnaar]

We used to make our own - one golden syrup tin, length of fuse wire from the model shop, some saltpetre from the butcher, "mum making some spiced beef again is she? ", bit of sugar and a sprinkling of iron filings and a bit of packing sand and bob's your uncle - I'm amazed we never got seriously burned or injured!

I wouldn't have had a clue how to make my own... but a mate did... we (about 10 of us) set some off on the common of a town about 10 miles from home when I was 16 ... cue the rozzers driving over the common in a pnda car trying to catch us... they didn't, thankfully Sadly, the mate (and another mate) both died in a motorbike accident a year after... Happy days (though hugely irresponsible, of course)

 

[Mr Pig]

It's similar to the situation with alcohol, I see no need to have outlets on every street corner. The councils are 90% to blame for this mess.

Large retailers or chains like Morrisons or Threshers would never tolerate systematic under age sales in their shops, they've got too much to loose, but give drinks licences to several hundred corner shops dotted all over the town and you've got a completely different situation. If kids had to travel into town to try to buy alcohol, knowing that there was a good chance they were not going to be sold it when they got there, I honestly think less of them would be getting smashed every week.

Why should every corner shop sell drink? Adults can travel to the supermarket to get their shopping so what's wrong with them doing the same with alcohol? Giving out drinks licenses like sweets at a children's party, to people who don't care who they take money from, is the root cause of this countries juvenile alcohol abuse problem.

 

[PaulB]

I am in agreement with you about selling fireworks to the public though, it is about time that they were banned for private use.

Don't want to appear an old fuddy-duddy or anything but I am in complete agreement with you on that one.

 

[addictfreak]

Local authority, Police and Fire Service take a strong line up here. The number of shops selling fireworks has reduced drastically. Other action has also reduced the number of bonfire night calls and anti social behaviour.

http://www.twfire.gov.uk/news/news/?EntryId67=28130

http://www.twfire.gov.uk/bonfire/

 

[goo_mason]

Anyone who ever brought those red chinese bangers back from France when they were young and lobbed them about like a loon should be ashamed of themselves.

Well, actually, we never lobbed them about. We used to plant them in dog crap and run before we got splattered. Or, in my bedroom, light one, drop it in a tin, quickly put the lid on and stand back.

We were easily pleased as kids.

 

[Fnaar]

When i lived in Spain, I remember seeing people let off rockets by holding them
The Spanish take on fireworks is that it's all about noise, rather than pretty colours and displays... and boy, do they love using noisy fireworks at fiesta time

 

[Rhythm Thief]

When i lived in Spain, I remember seeing people let off rockets by holding them

I've done that. At an outdoor gig I went to, the singer opened the show by letting off a rocket by hand from the stage. Wow, that looks cool, I thought from behind ten cans of Stella and any number of large spliffs, and found a rocket, lit it and let it go. Needless to say, it wasn't quite so cool when I did it.
The difference between me and, er, everyone else on this thread is that this was only last year, when I was 36.

 

[Fnaar]

The difference between me and, er, everyone else on this thread is that this was only last year, when I was 36.