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| Thread ID: 63299 | 2005-11-04 20:08:00 | Should Fireworks Sales Be Banned | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 401919 | 2005-11-04 23:52:00 | Agree for under 18s ban...just like ciggies, alcohol etc... I agree |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 401920 | 2005-11-05 00:04:00 | I would say no but to be honest all the fun went out of fireworks when they stopped us buying crackers, tom thumbs, double happys, thunders etc... (used to love blowing fresh cow...er...turds to smithereens. Not a nice sight if you didn't move far enough away =P) I reckon if they ban them, people will just start making their own anyway. Imagine the possible problems then. >.< (as Metla found out. 'I seeee the light!) I feel it's not so much a fireworks issue as a 'taking personal responsibility and learning how to do things safely' issue. Heck, I don't remember so many fires and dumbass accidents happening a few years ago. Nanny state is trying to legislate us all into nice thick-padded cottonwool suits. |
Catweazle (2535) | ||
| 401921 | 2005-11-05 00:17:00 | I agree with the people above - ban for under 18's Anyway its much cheaper to go and watch a public display - theres always a great one here in napier |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 401922 | 2005-11-05 00:19:00 | Last one I seen he taped about 2000 sparklers together, when lit we went blind, World just turned white.......pure white....... Hmm i'm trying a quartar of that tonight. If you never see me on PF1 again, you know why... |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 401923 | 2005-11-05 00:23:00 | To make your own you need a permit to buy the gunpowder and I think you have to be a certified explosives person to get the permit and as for the age restriction that dosen't work. Whats to stop a 18 year old buying them for say a 12 year old to let off and also irresponsible parents buying them for 12 year old Johnny to let off unsupervised blowing up frogs sticking them up kittens bums pups bums I can go on and on. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 401924 | 2005-11-05 00:25:00 | Sparklers? I dont want some loud bomb, merely just a bright torch :stare: |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 401925 | 2005-11-05 00:50:00 | When I was in Spain there were lots of fireworks displays run by the local municipalities (councils) and they were fantastic! Tubes for launching rockets that were about 150mm diameter and shot out huge thumping bombs into the sky. Never seen anything like it anywhere else. The professional pyrotechnicians moved around between all the launchers in this roped off area bright with flame. I can still picture it. Of course it came out of the local ratepayers' pockets but the display was a thousand times better than our backyard bbq and Warehoise skyrocket events. That's the way to go I reckon and of course the libertarians will protest but hey as ratepayes and taxpayers we're paying for a lot of the damage from all our amateurs' efforts. |
mark c (247) | ||
| 401926 | 2005-11-05 00:59:00 | Of course they shouldn't be banned. It's the little pratts who can't behave and their parents who can't educate them that should be banned... from receiving oxygen. Yeah deprive them of O2 & see how long before they start spluttering like fish on dry land lol... :D |
Mr Wetzyl (362) | ||
| 401927 | 2005-11-05 01:04:00 | I remember seeing a drunk man stuffing his nostrills with those crackers they now banned (Poha brand I think) the ones that look like a dynamite in Indiana jones movies...It explodes and he just laugh...too much alcohol to feel the pain. | Mr Wetzyl (362) | ||
| 401928 | 2005-11-05 01:06:00 | Just ban them and be done with it. Our neighbours letterbox got blown up the other night which I have to confess amused me abit... but ban the blimin things anyway. | dolby digital (5073) | ||
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