[Cherie]

If this isn't enough to see some action on powerful fireworks being withdrawn from public sale nothing is

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/876...ys-house-Derby

Ted and Wendy Bagshaw were watching Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday night when they heard what sounded “like a massive bomb” go off.

A huge rocket had smashed through the roof tiles of their home in Littleover, Derbyshire, and set the loft on fire.

Within minutes, the detached house was ablaze and the Bagshaws were forced to flee.

Retired policeman Mr Bagshaw, 69, said: “We were sitting in the conservatory when we saw this huge rocket fly towards our house.

[Eddie.]

more laws should have been put into place way earlier to prevent these types of incidents from happening...

[Cherie]

I don't even know where you would stand insurance wise

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I don't even know where you would stand insurance wise

Surely they would pay out if it was someone ELSE'S fireworks that did the damage. Not so sure if someone blew up their own house with them, though.

There were a couple of absolutely insane ones around here on the 5th. Just two or three but they were bigger and louder than the professional display I was at on the 4th?? The windows were rattling here and they were coming from 5 houses down. I don't see how they can possibly be safe, if they hit a house there would be definite damage. Plus, there are telephone cables spider-webbing the area at the back of these houses and that's where they were launching them... just daft, could quite easily hit one and fall back to the ground before going off, or be knocked off course sideways at a window.

I'm bloody dubious about proper council displays after Saturday too... we stayed pretty far back, a whole field away, because the sound (and crowds) are too much for the littlest but she enjoys them from a distance. Quite grateful for that this year because two fireworks in a row went off course in a sort of arc and went off right above the crowd's heads?? Looked pretty ****ing hairy from a distance. Professional Diagram:

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Surely they would pay out if it was someone ELSE'S fireworks that did the damage. Not so sure if someone blew up their own house with them, though.

There were a couple of absolutely insane ones around here on the 5th. Just two or three but they were bigger and louder than the professional display I was at on the 4th?? The windows were rattling here and they were coming from 5 houses down. I don't see how they can possibly be safe, if they hit a house there would be definite damage. Plus, there are telephone cables spider-webbing the area at the back of these houses and that's where they were launching them... just daft, could quite easily hit one and fall back to the ground before going off, or be knocked off course sideways at a window.

I'm bloody dubious about proper council displays after Saturday too... we stayed pretty far back, a whole field away, because the sound (and crowds) are too much for the littlest but she enjoys them from a distance. Quite grateful for that this year because two fireworks in a row went off course in a sort of arc and went off right above the crowd's heads?? Looked pretty ****ing hairy from a distance. Professional Diagram:

I shouldn't laugh but I have seen the same thing happen, Lowry who?!

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I shouldn't laugh but I have seen the same thing happen, Lowry who?!

Someone actually got hit by one at a display I was at years ago... the display was stopped and everyone was "evacuated". Though I heard rumours later that it wasn't a display firework, but that someone brought a box of shop-fireworks to the display and threw it into the bonfire .

[DemolitionRed]

We went to a big local event with a procession (which included a Trump lookalike ) and a bonfire in a skip Good fireworks though and all done safely by experts and behind a barrier.

The thing about fireworks is, people can spend what they like and buy the expensive event style ones. There need to be risk assessments put in place for fireworks that can potentially go through someone's roof. The one that set this house on fire had to be one big mf and imo, should never of been sold to the general public.

[DemolitionRed]

Its bad enough that a firework set a house on fire but when a cat has two fireworks attached to its body and dies from its injuries, its time all fireworks were restricted to licence holders only http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a8041381.html

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Its bad enough that a firework set a house on fire but when a cat has two fireworks attached to its body and dies from its injuries, its time all fireworks were restricted to licence holders only http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a8041381.html

I feel sick

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Its bad enough that a firework set a house on fire but when a cat has two fireworks attached to its body and dies from its injuries, its time all fireworks were restricted to licence holders only http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a8041381.html

Words just can't describe what I feel about people that can do this to a poor defenceless animal.

[Shaun]

Even from an entertainment viewpoint, who even finds fireworks that compelling beyond the age of 12 any more? Unless it's on the scale of a London Eye NYE event, it's always disappointing and far outweighed by the impracticality and inconvenience of standing in the freezing bloody cold for them.

Just a totally, totally pointless fad.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I don't even know where you would stand insurance wise

I was just thinking that. Just imagine if those poor people weren’t covered - it doesn’t bare thinking about.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Its bad enough that a firework set a house on fire but when a cat has two fireworks attached to its body and dies from its injuries, its time all fireworks were restricted to licence holders only http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a8041381.html

I’d kill the little sh**s if I got my hands on them.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

I’d kill the little sh**s if I got my hands on them.

Disturbing isn't it. ****ing monsters.

[Kazanne]

The man has now died and it is a murder enquiry

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

I’d kill the little sh**s if I got my hands on them.

I'de do exactly the same to them, nothing but bastards, cruel ,heartless scum.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

I'de do exactly the same to them, nothing but bastards, cruel ,heartless scum.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-fire-mob.html

Don’t mean to upset you or anyone but seeing this was awful. I just feel that people need to be aware of what goes on in the world. Knowledge is power. Those poor elephants, it actually made me cry they are such gentle beautiful animals. A mother and her calf ffs. Sick, twisted people. They are the animals, the inferior life form, not the elephants. In my opinion those elephants’ lives are more valuable.