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Both should be banned.

Kids scaring old women?

Fireworks are a complete waste of money, literally watching money go up in smoke!

I don't mind fireworks on the day Nov 5, but before that, they get on my nerves. I was walking past a garden last week and thought a bloody terrorist had set a bomb off, jumped out of my skin and I got showered with sparks. I was well prepared to go knock on his door and throttle the sod. Where does it say you can set these things off right next to road and pavement in your garden. Trouble is these days there being set off by thick morons who can't read instructions

I like watching fireworks, don't care if it's a few days before or after but it's the little idiots who set them off in the street that spoil it.

Last year, this tosser who used to bully me all the time in school and break into our shed and steal our stuff got his reward for messing with a firework. He set it off, thought he'd messed up, went back to it and blew his hand off in the middle of the street. To show the kind of person he is, the kindest response to the cries of help as he held his arm was "Stop messing the street up with your blood!"

Yeah same I dont mind fireworks but I dont like the loud bangy ones

Our local 'Brain Dead' contingent have been having street wars all weekend, some of the explosions were real window rattlers.
One to**er last night managed to set fire to his hair and ran all over the place looking for help before some kind person put him out. That sobered him up and the 'old bill' are threatening to do him for having illegal fireworks......he brought them back from France on his last beer run
Hope they lock him up for a few years but I doubt it.

What stupid country arms its population of brain dead with high explosives for one month of the year ,, oh we do mind you i`m used to loud fieworks all year round. living within throwing distance of the docks the likes of QE2 and QM2 use they often have massive displays on departure at odd times of night

If I was to say.....

"I'm going to set off an explosive device at location x' tomorrow at 11pm", I'd have a SWAT team on my door within 15minutes.

Ohh, but because the explosives come in pink wrapping paper and are called 'whizzlers', thats okay. lol

Bizarre society huh. Worse still, the very people who buy all this junk are usually the common social filth of this country. Naturally, the wife beater next door to me will probably already be stocked up with bombs, with the dumb fool probably wondering if he'll dare to post a few through my letter box.

Calrissian: does not have any explosives at home, not even the pink wrapped ones.

Hmm, so there is an upside to it, in that a few of the filth will get mortally injured, or at least lose a hand or something.

Good riddance to all those nuts who are throwing explosives around the streets this week. The more reports of 'council estate youth' died due to fireworks...so much the better.

Cal: he has no stinking mercy for any of those pieces of dirt.

I must admit as a lad i threw around "bangers" like confetti

Was slightly annoyed when one went off in my hand, but ho-hum

Well at least you matured Rince. Chances are the other lot will end up in prison! It's ok to be wild as a child but there are limits to how reckless you are. I blame modern society but I have to go now to be off to my womens institute meeting!

We all make mistakes when we're young but the difference is that these days those mistakes go unchallenged and the kids don't get punished or learn any lessons other than how to get away with terrorising society and taking things to a higher and higher level each generation while the law protects the criminal rather than the victim!

I had a firework thrown in my face when I was a teenager. You might've messed around Rince, but I bet you never did that to anyone. There's youthful 'high-spirits' and naive impulsiveness but that's youth and it's not the same thing at all. Ok, where's my handbag, I have a W.I meeting to go to!

I am sorry you lot but I love fireworks - must be the kid in me - I love Bonfire Night, the smell of winter in the air, getting all wrapped up warm and standing outside to watch the display. I don't agree with people chucking them around for fun - I think organised displays are harmless.

As for Halloween, I don't like the concept of trick or treating, it wasn't the thing when I was little, it seemed to come in later through American influence and I know people who live alone find it quite threatening to have people in masks banging on their doors. However, Halloween itself is not a problem, it is just fun - when I was growing up we had parties each year, nothing sinister - just apple dunking and eating jelly mostly

That is why tonight my children are having some little friends around to play games and have a buffet... but not going trick or treating.

I suppose my answer is that both times for me represent the oncoming winter and are fun nights - the problem starts when people take them too seriously or disregard the feelings of others eg.. throwing fireworks or intimidating old people.

Can I get off my soap box now?

We don't really celebrate halloween here. People do talk about it and it is somewhat used in advertising, but it's not a national thing, at least not yet. I do have to say that I loooove fireworks. The only night in Finland we do fireworks is on New Year's eve, sorry to say. If you want to do it some other time you have to have a licence for it. I'd love to see more of fireworks, though

I'm surprised that fireworks have not been banned for sale to the general public tbh, Not because I don't want peeps to enjoy themselves but simply because they can be so dangerous

Organised displays are loads better and often free. This Bonfire night I'll be going to Lewes that has 7 of the biggest bonfire and firework displays in the country, it's the biggest night of the year in our normally sleepy county town.

Can't add anything to that, totally agree Milly, very well put.

Our church has an alternative to Haloween party as we don't celebrate it so the children have a big screen put up and watch a movie and get sweets and general foodstuffs to make them hyper

I love fireworks and usually go to some organised display. I know that a lot of people can be annoying with them and I agree that there is danger selling them but just for the record those that buy them are not all 'common social filth'. May dad bought them when we were kids and he's the loveliest dad around