Dangerous Fireworks

[anotheoldgit]

Do others agree that fireworks are more dangerous than they once were?

I ask this because this morning I discovered a 2½ foot rocket, with a 3/8 square shaft, embedded 2½ inches into my front lawn.

Interesting to note, that printed on the side of the rocket head were the words "spectators must stand at least 25 metres away".

What about poor innocent persons who happen to be out on their front lawns, should we be expected to wear tin helmets?

[wolf63]

Do you suspect any AB person of firing it? :-)

I don't understand where youths get enough money to buy fireworks - they cost a fortune, the one that you describe wasn't a cheap one either.

My cats love the firework display - from behind the double glazing and the heating switched on.

[Svejk]

Check if it says 'made in Russia' on the other side, aog.

[jno]

that sounds about the size of the rockets I used to fire in my youth. I thnk they just said "stand well clear after lighting", no 25-metre exclusion zone. I had no idea where they landed, though - you were probably just unlucky.

[Zacs-Master]

First stabbings, now fireworks! Are,you sure,the stick was 3/8 and not half inch?

[woofgang]

Yes, you are right. I too have found huge rockets, both sticks and entire rocket casings embedded in my garden on more than one occasion. They can't have been from an organised display as the nearest open space from me is about a mile away. There is also a shop about 20 minutes drive away which sells fireworks all year round and also sells (legally) over the internet. I honestly think that the time has come to restrict massively, the size and type of fireworks that can be sold to the public and also to to go back to restrictions on the times of the year that they can be sold to the general public. Restrictions on the times that they can be set off just doesn't work as its just about impossible to enforce.

[Baldric]

A 'Brodie' would be a great accessory for a gardening outfit!

[Svejk]

Andy Hughes borrowed my lighter yesterday. Just saying, like.

[Prudie]

I worry about this kind of thing way more than I used, probably because I live in a thatched house. Lots of my neighbours let off fireworks from their garden.
Cheap display for us I suppose.

[Svejk]

Don't they make thatch fireproof nowadays, prudie?

[Prudie]

Well we have fancy alarms and there's a fireproof cladding under it but surely it can still catch fire, it is only reed - I don't know?

[Svejk]

Try 'lighting it'. It might give you peace of mind.

[woofgang]

it can be Svejk, there are two certificated barrier methods that put a barrier between the thatch and the rest of the house and also a fire retardant spray, but none of the options are cheap, the spray needs regular renewal and the barriers can only be applied when the thatch roof has been stripped off. Its suggested that the spray is re applied every 5 years and as its invisible, there is no way of seeing how much of the protective coating has worn away.

[Svejk]

Yes, I guessed so, what with all the health & safety nonsense we have today.

[woofgang]

Svejk, Have you ever seen a thatch fire? Its awful.

[Svejk]

No. And I'm unlikely to now.

[EcclesCake]

I hope your lawn makes a full recovery.

[mikey4444]

Here is an example of fireworks being terribly dangerous ::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-34684758

[craft1948]

Some silly booger near me started setting fireworks off at 3:45 this morning...

[woofgang]

I know craft, they get home from the pub or from clubbing and go "I know, lets let off some fireworks....." Round here it starts about a week before halloween and goes on until the end of November if we are lucky. If not it continues through until New Year.

[Mosaic]

Getting daft explosives labelled as fireworks is all too easy. Locally, kids took to blowing up telephone boxes.....one of them got killed doing this. people living over the back from us used to have exuberant firework parties, one rocket fell to earth and demolished next door's porch (fotunately not porsche haha), another of theirs misfired and fired off in circles at ground level on our patio. They've moved now.