Should fireworks be banned?

[gurutasker]

Tower Day... well, any excuse for a public holiday

I remember guy fawkes (the day) as being more about making bon-fires than launching off sky rockets (although they were equally as cool)... but you don't see that happening much anymore

[xRyanx]

The Frankton Model shop in frankton hamilton sells some rather serious fireworks for those complaining about them being crap now (although i do agree, warehouse/supermarket fireworks FTL)

As for the poll, id have to agree with Mr. Boost, BAN STUPID PEOPLE. Think of all the problems it will solve in our society! HURRAH!

*goes and watches boondock saints*

[flat_0ut]

Maybe make it illegal to carry fireworks in public except if you have just brought them. $150 fine.

[sergei]

IQ test, say below 100 can't buy fireworks? Same could go for alcohol, guns, cars etc.

[RomanV]

IQ test, say below 100 can't buy fireworks? Same could go for alcohol, guns, cars, life.

fixed.

[gurutasker]

Maybe make it illegal to carry fireworks in public except if you have just brought them. $150 fine.

Interesting idea... I was talking to family last night and I reckon if people are going to treat/use them as weapons, then the law should treat them like weapons too. (IE cannot use/seen in public unless transporting to/from for a specific reason). The only hard thing (as always) is someone policing it.

[UZZ30]

They are only miss used mainly buy the younger fools of society. So really the age should be raised to 18.

I actually dont give a toss any more about fireworks... like today they are budget and dont really do anything exciting like the older ones did - so really a complete waste of time and money!

Gosh, when you think about these bits of cardboard are expensive for what they are! As the saying goes each time you light one your burning your money!

Also Im going to have to invest in some kind of cover for my Soarer as I can tell if I leave it out some rouge smoldering piece of a firework could land on it and fcuk the paint job.

[Jazza]

Fireworks license. You need to apply for a license, checks on your criminal record etc influence it. Say 40 bucks for a license, expires every 10 year? Must be 18/20 to get it. Etc. And then enforce. If you breach it, you get it on your rap sheet, or some other recorded data sheet.

OR

Must buy fireworks from cop shops - they record personal info, make a way of tracking fireworks, if your caught misuing, big ass fine?

May or may not work... but worth suggesting it

[Silent Knight]

Just completely BAN any and all fireworks to the general public.

Honestly... you get to see SO much by going to a public display and watching professionals. Why would you waste all of your money on these teeny tiny little poofter rockets that make a little colored flame and the shows over?

Spend your money on more hard liquor kiddies. Throw back a bottle of 60 proof Vodka and I bet you'll be able to touch/feel and see all the fireworks you've ever wanted right there in your back yard.

[Brick]

Just completely BAN any and all fireworks to the general public.

did you get toys as a baby ?

[Mr.Phreak]

He played with knives, and bits of wood with nails in em

[geishaboy]

Spend your money on more hard liquor kiddies

Yeah, and then you'll have a generation of retarded drunken geishaboys to deal with

I'm drunk right now fo $&#$% sake and it's only 7:30

[AE85coupe]

Spend your money on more hard liquor kiddies

Yeah, and then you'll have a generation of retarded drunken geishaboys to deal with

I'm drunk right now fo $&#$% sake and it's only 7:30

dude you really are a winner





but anyway.... i say more fireworks, otherwise people will just make homemade ones anyway

but seriously though, its $&#$% up being able to by them at 14, hell when i was 14 i went mad with them, should be 18 at the least, or have to have a firearms licence

[Mr.Phreak]

Judging by the amount of 15/16 year olds I see drinking and smoking, I have little faith that raising the age restriction will do anything.

[Jazza]

Being completely honest, when you were 16, where did you get your booze? You went to a liquor store and bought it, or you asked your older brother/sister. If they raise the age, the same thing will happen, ban them, or make a license of some sort be required to use em. Or just make em cost shit loads so everyone goes round to the rich peoples place and trashes their lawn... bastard rich people lol

[AE85coupe]

Judging by the amount of 15/16 year olds I see drinking and smoking, I have little faith that raising the age restriction will do anything.

Ah yes, but it is a start

if it was legal for 15/16 years olds to drink/smoke, things would be much much worse

like i said, firearms licence

[soopachargen]

That's why they burn an effigy of the dirty $&#$%

on twin towers day we should burn and effigy of George Bush... the dirty $&#$%

[SkylineObsession]

Ban them. The amount of stupid stuff i've seen from just my backyard in the last few days is beyond belief, i think it is worse this year than it has been before.

Kids shooting fireworks at each other (and hitting those targets too) - i'm talking about those between five and ten years old..., holding the fireworks while they are going off, lighting them and dropping them on the grass (those spinny ones you're supposed to nail to something), aiming them at the ground so they bounce off and fly up in the air and heaps of other stupid s***. At the school my sister goes to they are letting off fireworks at lunchtimes, before school, after school, morning break and so on. She was coming home the other day for lunch and someone let off a smoke bomb in a rubbish bin.

People will buy them and store them too, we've had fireworks here since last year because where we were letting them off last guy fawkes was at my brothers place (near a beach) and it was too windy in the end - we'd already started a tussock fire which started growing very quickly (a combination of water and my shoes helped put it out - could have threatened no less than five or so houses if we hadn't).

As people have said, public displays are SOOO much better (like the one Island Park Speedway in Dunedin does each year - their ones are even more impressive than what the City of Dunedin fireworks display was a few years back...), they aren't (technically) paid for out of your pocket and you don't have to clean them up or anything afterwards. The ones on public sale are pretty pathetic in comparison to organised displays to be honest.

[Brick]

What i heard, not sure if its true is that next year they will be banned, but they are not saying it public yet because they dont want everyone stocking up on them

[DJ]

Yes.

haha its raining here, pity.