Fireworks!

We live in a similar house and area of terraced streets to you, but in all our years here haven’t noticed any local fireworks.
Do you think it’s something common to your area to do this?
It really upsets pets, they must think a war has started!

Certain areas we have them going off after midnight.
Absolute pain in the backside.
I’d just ban them full stop.

According to D in Birmingham (and don’t ask me how she came by this information) fireworks are sometimes set off as a sign that a drug dealer has a supply to distribute or sell. So if you hear loud fireworks especially in daytime, it could be that!

So selfish.
And fireworks these days have massive bangs, like bombs going off.
I know some people set off fireworks to celebrate a special occasion but there are less selfish and quieter ways to do this.
As you say Cossy even with recent rain the ground is dry as are the trees and undergrowth.
Makes me so cross.

some folk are so selfish, I'd ban them

MawsRosie

According to D in Birmingham (and don’t ask me how she came by this information) fireworks are sometimes set off as a sign that a drug dealer has a supply to distribute or sell. So if you hear loud fireworks especially in daytime, it could be that!

Yep that’s it 👍🏻

MawsRosie

According to D in Birmingham (and don’t ask me how she came by this information) fireworks are sometimes set off as a sign that a drug dealer has a supply to distribute or sell. So if you hear loud fireworks especially in daytime, it could be that!

Not just the daytime but in the early hours. It’s been going on since Covid 😩

The Government are currently running an open consultation on fireworks where you can have your say. Scroll down to 'respond online' and then scroll down and click on the red arrow to start. You have to enter your name and e-mail address.
www.gov.uk/government/consultations/fireworks-and-pyrotechnics-in-the-uk

I have done this myself. It's a bit of a pain and doesn't always ask the questions you'd like to answer, but I just wrote what I thought anyway. I want them banned altogether except for organised licenced displays (like Australia) but there is no option for that as far as I remember. Still, that's what I told them whether they like it or not! 😏

Have signed banning petitions before, but if this is a different way in, will have a go.

Chestnut

The Government are currently running an open consultation on fireworks where you can have your say. Scroll down to 'respond online' and then scroll down and click on the red arrow to start. You have to enter your name and e-mail address.
www.gov.uk/government/consultations/fireworks-and-pyrotechnics-in-the-uk

I have done this myself. It's a bit of a pain and doesn't always ask the questions you'd like to answer, but I just wrote what I thought anyway. I want them banned altogether except for organised licenced displays (like Australia) but there is no option for that as far as I remember. Still, that's what I told them whether they like it or not! 😏

Thank you, have completed, yes a bit of a pain!

Completed thanks Chestnut I love fireworks and have put my view.

Thanks to Chestnut. I have completed. I llove to look at fireworks but not to the detriment of people and animals who may be traumatised. In that respect, I would be happy never to see them again until they bring in safe, soundless alternatives.

Cossy could it have been the first of the Autumn free Firework displays on the seafront?

MawsRosie

According to D in Birmingham (and don’t ask me how she came by this information) fireworks are sometimes set off as a sign that a drug dealer has a supply to distribute or sell. So if you hear loud fireworks especially in daytime, it could be that!

Urban myth according to my friend in the police.

We have fireworks almost all year round. Any event, private or public, seems to need fireworks and they nearly all start around 1000 or 1100 pm. I guess that's when the event is finishing. I haven't heard quite so many this year, possibly because of the heatwave but at least one of the heath fires was started from a firework landing.

I would be happy to see only public displays.

We have a very suspicious ice cream van comes round …I mean he has several hoody customers who appear to chat but don’t buy ice cream😲 he arrives playing the Popeye tune.In all weathers.

It’s well known fact around my way JJ

Oreo

We have a very suspicious ice cream van comes round …I mean he has several hoody customers who appear to chat but don’t buy ice cream😲 he arrives playing the Popeye tune.In all weathers.

Probably drugs & booze.
Use to go on all the time in outskirts of cities.
There is a documentary about the ice cream wars in Glasgow

GrannyGravy13

Cossy could it have been the first of the Autumn free Firework displays on the seafront?

Definitely not!

It was far too loud and really just bangers, I thought the one’s was a gunshot!

I have absolutely no objections to the Southend Seafront fireworks, my understanding is they are funded by local traders and they do bring people to the area.

I like fireworks, but in the right place.

My understanding is EuroDisney have replaced some of their displays with “silent” fireworks. All the beauty, none of the noise.

cossy I rather like drone shows, some of them are spectacular.

I checked the seafront ones start this weekend.

Seems someone was celebrating with fireworks, which really reverberate when used in close proximity to house.

GrannyGravy13

cossy I rather like drone shows, some of them are spectacular.

I checked the seafront ones start this weekend.

Seems someone was celebrating with fireworks, which really reverberate when used in close proximity to house.

I’ve never seen a drone show in “real life”, but saw one on tv and it was amazing and quite spectacular.

I'm happy with any organised event with drones or fireworks. But selling fireworks to the public is never going to end well.

They're let off any time, any place, and this causes fear and anxiety in some people and most animals. If it were only a very few days that wouldn't be so bad but in some places they're going off for weeks on end and that's very upsetting for some. And they are let off in the street and public places.

One of those Police programmes on TV showed utter carnage on 5th Nov with gangs of kids letting off fireworks in public. It was so bad the local Police just had to stand back and let them get on with it, rather than approach and put themselves in danger of being burnt by fireworks being thrown at them. This (and much worse) is what can happen when fireworks are sold to the public. 😦

Chestnut you’ve hit the nail on the head! In my neighbourhood they start around September and actually carry on til March, it’s certain neighbours, not close enough to pinpoint the actual house, but close enough that the bangs are very loud.

I really wouldn’t mind it was just a few times a year, but every few days for months on end really does grind. People clearly have money to literally burn!

you have forgotten you were once a child or teen ,