The Weekly Gripe

Fireworks complaints, yobs setting off noisy fireworks

Fireworks should be licensed

A fireworks licence needed

It's that time of year again, where fireworks are set off in our neighbourhoods, at all hours of the day and night. Wouldn't it make sense if fireworks were licensed so the yobs couldn't get hold of them?



I'm no killjoy and I love organised firework displays, but the availability of these things for purchase by the ASBO generation is a recipe for disaster at worst, or a downright nuissance at best.

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01-3-2010 I disagree with the writer of this online complaint, I am not going to say anything else on this matter other than you can get it up youIdisagree
24-11-2009 Yeah lets celebrate Guy Faulk's mission failure by letting off lots of small fireworks to explode in the air. Are fireworks taxed? Good so they should be. Where would we be today without the uk parliament. coughDundeebundee
14-11-2009 Muggins, yes we can buy fireworks in this country, and almost every year someone gets ki11ed by one, one way or another, I can't see our government's ever banning their public sale, But lets be thankfull we can't all go out to the shop in the town, and buy hand-guns, pump action shot...moreGainsborough lad.
13-11-2009 Fireworks may be fun for some, but they cause annoyance and/or upset to others. They are also very damaging to pets and wildlife. Australia has got it right, fireworks are not on sale to the public and are only available at organised displays. How come they are more advanced than us? I thought ...moreMuggins
10-11-2009 childish; to be fair the firework was pushed through the letterbox and it set the house on fire. If you are determined to set someone's house on fire all you need is a rag and a box of matches. So, banning fireworks wouldn't really help, would it? You could try to ban everything which co...moreGRUMPYOLDWOMAN
10-11-2009 Congo, joking apart they are deadly, only yesterday on the news it was reported that a mother was ki11ed saving her son from a house fire caused by a firework, I don't find that at all funny,childish
09-11-2009 ".......es they are pretty and a bit of fun but they can also be deadly" The same could be said of women. :)Congo
09-11-2009 I agree with all your comments for and against fireworks, but the FACT is how many are put in the wrong hands every year, every year hundreds of people are left with scars due to irresponsible use of fireworks, yes they are pretty and a bit of fun but they can also be deadly.Mrs Practical
05-11-2009 Guys come on its all a little fun this time of the year to have the family round to have a organised display in our back garden, As a tax payer I believe this should not be banned as everything we do in our lives that is fun is already banned, next you moaning people will ban toilet paper saying ...morelive your life
03-11-2009 You are sad jobsworths, what next, ban fun? oooh oooh a teworist might buy a rocket popper and hurt me with it, I remember the war...from TV....my cat gets scared....when I look at it.....my puppy made a mess on the floor last year on fireworks.....because I didn't let it out.....I hate kids I ...morethrowingawobbly
28-10-2009 Nan, fireworks damage is criminal damage, not a hostile act by a sovereign foreign power. So, the householder is insured. The insurance company will pay. See: http://www.easier.com/view/Fi...morePhil
28-10-2009 Fireworks are bombs and shouldn't be sold, try getting a repair one on a house roof when a roket goes through it. The insurance company have a get out clause which says its a weapon and as such an act of war and the home owner is left with the bill for repairs.Nan



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