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TOPIC: Fireworks rant!!
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Fireworks rant!! 17 Years ago
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As my poor dog sits cowering in the corner, flinching at every bang, I have got to ask, isnt it time this stupid past time was banned? Why do we allow, in this day and age, the sale of explosives to celebrate the foiling of....well, a terrorist plot!? I was even born on Nov 5th - always hated them - and could never understand why people like them.
And it's not just my dog - in the countryside where I live there are livestock, horses, cats and also numerous young children who hate them. Okay, if they are not completely banned, at least control and limit them so that there are not so many bloody displays in every pub and peoples back gardens all over the place.
And limit it to just November the 5th!!!
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Re:Fireworks rant!! 16 Years, 12 Months ago
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Just add ny 2p here.
In Hemel Hempstead, there was so many private displays that the air was heavy with sulphur smoke and pets were going mad. The fireworks all seemed the same - shoot into the air, then *BANG*. Where is the variance?
I went to an 'organised' display, however it was MORE dangerous than letting them off myself. First warning of what was about to come was cheap rockets that did not have the power of flight, and after a lazy, fizzing arc came back to earth....then BAM! The stars shot out sideways across the ground. Then we had fireworks of unknown type that just blew up onto those lighting them and some that shot across the ground in a random pattern. The air was dense with smoke. Someone mentioned that it resembled the first day of the Somme out there...
Then we got to the large fireworks that were the size of small barrels. These worked OK, BUT the audience started to get distresed when hot ash and embers started raining from the sky onto them. The cordon being too close and the following wind conspired. It was hard to breathe with the acrid smoke now engulfing the spectators. The crowd started to push back from the front lines and there was the sound of crying from the little ones. Torches flashing in the smoke looked like light sabres, and the combination of loud overhead bangs, coughing, crying and glowing hot embers put me in mind of Pompeii. I thought I would never say this, but I have now gone off fireworks.
RT
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