During the troubles over here fireworks were banned, one of the few good things about that period of our history! Theoretically you need a licence to buy them now but there's so many illegal ones knocking around a licencing system is a waste of time!
My mate has a Golden Lab & to him it is his life, he loves it like a child. He suffers badly with depression and he said only for the dog he wouldn't be around. Last weekend the toe rags in his village were letting off fireworks all around him & it drove the dog mad! He said the dog basically tried to bury itself under him & wouldn't move. I see them daily & all this week the dog has been very shy, never leaving my mates side and that has affected his mental health too. Naturally he's not looking forward to this weekend, another chance for fireworks!
IMHO fireworks should be treated like firearms & be very tightly controlled, with similar penalties for illegal use. That would limit them to professional displays as they should be.
200mm cube isn't that big tbh, there are a lot bigger cakes/single ignition boxes out there.In Aldi yesterday a woman was buying fireworks, the assistant brings them out to you after the checkout. I thought one of the boxes was a funny shape but when I looked again it was just one firework . It was about a 200mm cube. They will all be going off again Saturday night round here.
I am involved in the fireworks industry, I know exactly what's on offer and get to use a load of it myself in a safe way of course.
Okay, funny firework story.
Friend of mine has a "firework shop" in one of the more salubrious areas of Manchester, Local Authority housing estate right across the road.
This "Bird" walks in: "wanna rocket, biggest one, loudest". So he furnishes it with a bloody big rocket. Off it goes, across the road and straight into the back garden of one of the houses opposite, everyone comes out into the garden, they all examine the rocket. Inevitably, one of this little firm sticks the rocket, by it's "stick" straight into the bit that passes for a garden. And lit it.
My mate is positively bricking it now and all he saw was the most almighty bang at ground level. Stars everywhere.
This thing then leaves the group and makes a bee line for his shop. All he could think was: "this is it, I am getting sued, lose everything!. It burst into the shop and screamed at him "That was F*kn GREAT. Giz another!!!"
It takes all sorts.
remember it well.......had one thrown at me......burnt / melted my bri-nylon polo shirt (Wasnt called a polo shirt then)Probably with organised bonfires etc banned., More people maybe holding their own back garden firework display, To be honest I didn't know how they can afford it, They are megga expensive now, Bangers were a penny each in my day, and that was pre decimal with 240 pence to a pound!!
or turtle neckHi, Al, No they were just called polo neck shirts,
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