Do you think fireworks should be illegal (UK) ?
825580
i totally agree with you for the same reasons. my animals suffer every year as they seem to go off weeks before now. even the main displays are starting earlier.\n\nthe first big display i know of was a few weeks ago in the middle of October! what happened to November 5th! if it was one night only it wouldn't be so bad.\n\ni cant sedate my animals because it goes on for weeks. they are terrified!\n\neven though the sale of fireworks is illegal to kids, they still get them just as they do cigarettes and alcohol.\n\nthey are dangerous and just another tool for those intent to be a menace to the public. \nit should be illegal to sell them in shops. organised displays should be set for the one night only, so us animal lovers can help our pets by sedation.\n\nyou are so right on this subject x
1048654
I'm starting to wonder.  Noticed several fireworks stands set up IN GEORGIA the last few days.  Hadn't heard that it was now legal...\n\nWhatever you do, BE SAFE AND RESPONSIBLE! :)
882093
English tradition. On the 5th of Novemeber we celebrate the fact that some guy in the olden days didn't succeed in blowing up the Houses of parliment with gunpowder. The fireworks represent this.
843804
I hope not.\nI prank call for fun and I know lots of people who do it too.\nWhat's so illegal about a harmless prank?
943970
It is total bull^*it what about the yellow ones!!!!!!!!! I mean come on what total rubbish like some places having winter decorations not Christmas ones anymore total and utter rubbish we are British and proud of it that is why the people came to Britain for our fairness now lets be fair on us not bias against us.\nSorry for the rant but this gets my blood boiling.
1144645
Fireworks on the beach in the city limits (Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach) are illegal.  That's the bad news.  The good news is that everyone does it anyway, so unless you shoot a bottle rocket DIRECTLY at a cop, you will PROBABLY not get caught.\n\nDon't call me if you do.\n\nAnd my favorite fireworks are the screaming fishes (at least I think that's what they are called.)
980444
yes it is illegal to hunt or kill wildlife with a bow/crossbow in the uk\n. The same question was asked last week\n\nhttp://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AidoaeS9Dfg46JdkHhulL58gBgx.?qid=20061123073302AAty1Ku
959081
Not only are no such fireworks sold anywhere of which I'm aware, but the technology to make showers of sparks only go off certain distances in certain directions to make such a message would make the cost of such fireworks prohibitively high.
966543
I don't know, it's now the 7th and it's raining and there are still fireworks going off. personally I think they should be band altogether, every year it's the same bloody thing, it's just not necessary there are organised events for Guy Fawkes, so why people need fireworks is beyond me.
1072355
Lucky it's not a crime to swallow batteries, otherwise he might get charged.\n\nI Had a friend once who stole fireworks from a shop, he then swallowed the gunpowder. The police caught him and then let him off
1068094
For some stupid PC reason it might offend immigrants (many of whom probably wouldn't mind joining in!).  I always go to bonfire night, I wear a daffodil on St Davids Day (I'm Welsh not English) but wish my fiance Happy St Georges Day (he is English) and would encourage him to celebrate it.  Christmas and Easter are Christian not English celebrations.  Today is the first Veterans day in Britain, in America they get the day off, over here nobody has heard of it!\n\nI think it is the fault of the extreme PC brigade personally.  We do Rememberance very well though it has to be said and Guy Fawkes Night is good too.
571151
Traditions are not established by law, they're established by the people who do whatever it is that they traditionally do.  Some traditions -- such as using fireworks to celebrate certain holidays -- may need to be modified to conform with local laws or ordinances, e.g., no explosives allowed in residential areas.
1141170
Unless you are licenced for possession of, the sale of explosives (inc fireworks) is illegal in Queensland.  I think Canberra is the only place you can purchase.
237491
Try FLASH instead of Fireworks.
984140
Only four! People in your area are leaving it late compared to people round my way, however I know I'm not in real trouble til I start hearing people humming 'Mistletoe and Wine'!\n\nI think that Christmas decorations should be restricted to December - I can understand that people enjoy Christmas and celebrating the time of year with the people they love but there's such a thing as overkill! It should be the positive feelings from Christmas that should last all year, not commercialism and cheap tinsel!\n\nLx
161408
No, because those are freedoms.  But I do think that we should be issued something like a nerf bat that we can smack people with for being annoying or dumb.  It should stun them for about a minute so they realize they are annoying and stupid!
502163
I'll do ya one better!  I've shot fireworks at people!\n\nWhen I lived in the bowels of Alaska, you couldn't do fireworks in the summer because we had almost 24 hours of sunlight...but in the winter...especially on New Years Eve we went mad for fireworks.\n\nSo one year I had a New Years Eve party at my house and there was like 50 or so people at the soiree, and we were pretty much all lit by around 1 am...and wouldn't ya know it?  The damn snow-mobilers decided..."Hey its New Years...let's ride our loud snow mobiles right through this guys front yard."  \n\nTiming is, of course everything, and there was about 10 of us outside on my deck (in minus 30 below temperatures, I might add) and we were shooting off some really cool tube type bottle rockets, ya know, those kind that are like motar's when you have the big ball of explosives in the bottom and they shoot out a tube? \n\nWell anyhoo, we decided to actually hold those tubes in our hands and lay in wait for the snow mobilers to pass in front of the house.  The drunken timing required was pretty intense, because we had to light the fuses just at the right moment in order to achieve a direct hit.  \n\nWe heard them coming around the corner, our fuses were lit, and we trained our hand-held mortars on the unaware snow mobilers...when BAM...4 of the motars were loosed and went sailing right for 'em!  2 over shot and exploded in the road  (which was still awesome), 1 swirled off into the sky and popped a 100 feet above their heads...but the last one  burst at least 10 feet above their heads in a shower of purple and white phosphorus!  It was glorious!!  The 4 snow-mobilers were scared out of their minds, fell off their machines into the snow and basically started screaming at us!  \n\n10 minutes of intense negotiations and the plying of liquor turned them into my new best friends for the night and they ended up taking the party guests for rides and hung out for the rest of that night.