Should Public Firework Sales Be Banned?

[zEpHyRiNe]

At least you can still make sparkler bombs, they better not ban sparklers...

Ahh, such fun did I have with sparkler bombs this year
We let them off at the beach, so if they weren't wrapped tight enough and turned into big sparklery fountains, nothing would catch on fire...
Plus when we ran out, we could sit there and watch everyone elses fireworks

[pervert]

Did you blow up some random pieces of driftwood?

I saw a decent sized one put a huge crack in a solid concrete wall once, they really do pack some punch if you make them big enough...

[zEpHyRiNe]

Did you blow up some random pieces of driftwood?

Nup, but they did make rather large craters in the sand

[EVOGTX]

I did a 1200 sparkler one but it wasnt tight enough and just blinded everything within 2km lol. Left a big blob of molten steel in the sand afterwards and you couldnt get near it it was to hot.

This one here I think was done in Australia, its quite good I reckon

[BlakJak]

At least you can still make sparkler bombs, they better not ban sparklers...

This is the attitude that explains why they should be public-display-only, I think.

Actually I think people should be allowed to buy them, but 'for the greater good' we need to probably let it slide. Theres too many idiots out there with a blatant disregard for other people that spoil it for the rest.

(How much dya suppose it cost the Fire Service (and by extension, the rest of us, as we pay their budget indirectly) to respond to all the fire events caused by Fireworks?

(Hint: False Alarms are ~$1500 per truck..)

[Adamal]

I'm kinda on the fence with this...

I think they should make it harder to be able to buy fireworks and the like, as with proper precautions and what not, they are excellent fun.

I guess like everything else, the retarded minority ruin it for the rest of us.

*Points*

I'm with her on this one. My thoughts exactly.

[Mad Murphy]

Hmm, my friends and I did some pretty dumb things with fireworks back in the day, made some mad bombs. Adding packets of detonators from bullets to fireworks make cool sounds, blackpowder in a air pistol co2 canister was by far the coolest thing... Anyway, I'm just greatful I never blew myself up or lost a hand or eye or something and I'd never do that stuff again. I think fireworks should be banned, there's heaps of cool public displays these days and Warehouse fireworks suck compared to them. 14 year olds buying boxes of explosives is a very bad idea. Fireworks only create extra problems, especially with the unwelcome (in my books anyway) invasion of Halloween into our country at the same time.

[pervert]

At least you can still make sparkler bombs, they better not ban sparklers...

This is the attitude that explains why they should be public-display-only, I think.

Really? I think you don't know jack-shit then...

Did you also stop to think that some people have their own land, and don't need to go blowing up mailboxes and the likes?

What is wrong with someone making a few good old bombs in the middle of no-where, on their OWN property...the only person they are putting in danger is themselves...

$&#$%, ban fireworks for all I care, there's still good old petrol and fertilizer...

[cheese]

the only person they are putting in danger is themselves...

yep and when they do set themselves/property on fire then its our tax dollars who have to fork out for the fire engines/amblances/a&e etc.

but definately they can go blow themselves up if ya not gunna bother anyone else for help

[drftnmaz]

u cant ban fireworks its a true kiwi tridition. ban them and there'll be more people out there with petrol, chlorine, fertizlier, shotgun powder etc really blowing things up insted of these half arse piddly litttle shot things.

u guys sounds like your not kiwi's you sound more like stuck-up females

[V8MOFO]

u cant ban fireworks its a true kiwi tridition. ban them and there'll be more people out there with petrol, chlorine, fertizlier, shotgun powder etc really blowing things up insted of these half arse piddly litttle shot things.

u guys sounds like your not kiwi's you sound more like stuck-up females

that is the stupidest thing I have heard in a very long time.
hahahaha, it just makes me laugh, how much sense that dosnt make

[3VLTOY]

Got to agree with V8MOFO on this one!!!!!
LMAO

And watch it with the 'stuck up females' bit will ya?

[pervert]

yep and when they do set themselves/property on fire then its our tax dollars who have to fork out for the fire engines/amblances/a&e etc.

So? 'Our' tax dollars also give out millions a week to unemployed losers...

...you pay for the ambulance yourself these days as well...

[cheese]

yep and when they do set themselves/property on fire then its our tax dollars who have to fork out for the fire engines/amblances/a&e etc.

So? 'Our' tax dollars also give out millions a week to unemployed losers...

...you pay for the ambulance yourself these days as well...

yeh but healthcare isnt all privatised is my point.

youre quite right, our tax dollars do go to unemployed losers, so why would you want to give even stupider people more of your money to cover their stupid accidents.

[pervert]

Haha, but if the person whom hurts themselve is paying tax dollars also, then they may as well get some use out of them...

[cheese]

Haha, but if the person whom hurts themselve is paying tax dollars also, then they may as well get some use out of them...

even dole bludgers pay tax :/ i guess ya got me there :-p

[zEpHyRiNe]

u cant ban fireworks its a true kiwi tridition.

400 years ago, Guy Fawkes was a co-conspirator in the "Gunpowder Plot" of 1605 in England. He and his cohorts decided to blow up the both Houses of Parliament in London and kill King James I upon the inaugural opening of the Parliament, and succeeded in smuggling several barrels of gunpowder into the basement of the Parliament.

This "Gunpowder Plot" occurred two years after King James I (of the "King James Bible" fame) ascended to the throne. A group of English Catholics, of which Guido Fawkes was a member, decided to kill the King because it was felt he had reneged on his promises to stop the persecution of Catholics. To this day, it is the law in Britain that a Roman Catholic cannot hold the office of monarch. And the Queen is still Supreme Head of the Church of England.

The plot was foiled at the eleventh hour; some of the plotters escaped, some turned King's Evidence and reported on the rest. The unlucky Fawkes was taken in chains to the Tower of London. He was hanged, drawn and quartered. After Guy was hanged, he was torn asunder and drug through the streets of London behind a horse cart. The charge was treason, though some people in England prefer to remember Guy as "the only man ever to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

To this day, one of the ceremonies that accompany the opening of a new session of parliament, is the searching of the basement, by a bunch of men in funny hats. Parliament somehow made political capital out of the close call, and poor Guy Fawkes is burned in effigy every November 5th on bonfires all over Britain.

Yeah, a great 'Kiwi' tradition there.

Why exactly we want to celebrate a Catholic trying to blow up English parliament 400 years ago is beyond me, not to mention, I'm struggling to find the relevence to New Zealand.

[EVL GSXR]

So? 'Our' tax dollars also give out millions a week to unemployed losers...

Classic

Can't beat the old Cedolyne (spelling) Bomb's

[Alex B]

yep and when they do set themselves/property on fire then its our tax dollars who have to fork out for the fire engines/amblances/a&e etc.

So? 'Our' tax dollars also give out millions a week to unemployed losers...

...you pay for the ambulance yourself these days as well...

You dont have to pay that $55 at all, and that covers SFA of what it accualy cost to run the ambulance. I belive it cost in the rejon of $500 to ACC every time an ambulance is called out.

[Brick]

yep and when they do set themselves/property on fire then its our tax dollars who have to fork out for the fire engines/amblances/a&e etc.

So? 'Our' tax dollars also give out millions a week to unemployed losers...

...you pay for the ambulance yourself these days as well...

You dont have to pay that $55 at all, and that covers SFA of what it accualy cost to run the ambulance. I belive it cost in the rejon of $500 to ACC every time an ambulance is called out.

and then its around 1500 for the fire engine to come