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The yoot are out and about again, lobbing bottles and setting off thunderous fireworks.
And not a parent to be seen.
Joy.
:mad: :mad: :mad:
Johnny Canuck2
18-10-2006, 00:58
It keeps them occupied, so they're not out happy slapping.
RaverDrew
18-10-2006, 01:03
There was some stupid kids letting off fireworks at people in the middle of coldharbour lane earlier :rolleyes:
Johnny Canuck2
18-10-2006, 01:06
There was some stupid kids letting off fireworks at people in the middle of coldharbour lane earlier :rolleyes:
Now, if you could own guns, nobody would be shooting firecrackers at you, for fear of what the return fire would be.
i was saying only earlier that i thought it had been a lot quieter on the fireworks front than last year
obviously the st matthews estate hasnt started yet.
i'm sure it will come soon though :rolleyes:
Shippou-Chan
18-10-2006, 01:26
Now, if you could own guns, nobody would be shooting firecrackers at you, for fear of what the return fire would be.
forget guns i recon everyone should have a full sized mecha with lazer cannons
Johnny Canuck2
18-10-2006, 01:32
forget guns i recon everyone should have a full sized mecha with lazer cannons
But where would you park them for the night?
Shippou-Chan
18-10-2006, 02:15
just like the 500lb gorilla
anywhere you like
shagnasty
18-10-2006, 02:33
only heard any fireworks on saturday must be the hindus celebrating duwali
Minnie_the_Minx
18-10-2006, 10:38
Kids outside the Windmill chucking fireworks last night as well. :mad:
Then they picked up a live one and chucked it round the corner on to the Blenheim Gardens Estate.
Shame it didn't blow up in their face :mad:
Round here they hold them and then run and point them at people.
It's only a matter of time before some stupid cunt gets serious burns.
Minnie_the_Minx
18-10-2006, 10:43
It's only a matter of time before some stupid cunt gets serious burns.
Good. I'd have absolutely no sympathy
craigxcraig
18-10-2006, 10:51
Have bene lucky thus far - its this time a year when several get shot at me whilst on my motorbike!
I had to wait a couple of minutes whilst some bloke with a glove on was holding a repeater firework and shooting it down Loughborough Road near Jamm. :mad:
Why can't the shops that sell to underage kids get a big fine which might help to stop other shops selling the bloody things in the first place.
I had to wait a couple of minutes whilst some bloke with a glove on was holding a repeater firework and shooting it down Loughborough Road near Jamm. A glove on?! That would be seen as tres uncool amongst the oiks on my estate.
poster342002
18-10-2006, 14:13
I'm not totally certain this idiotic phenomenon can be entirely blamed on shops selling to the underaged. I think there's a whole type of immature never-quite-growing-up "adult" in their late teens-early twenties who hang around with and provide fireworks to these lower-teen kids.
This firework misuse problem seemed to be less prevelent last year and the year before that - following an atrocious outbreak of firework misuse during 2003. Why's it crept back again? :confused:
SubZeroCat
18-10-2006, 14:16
Now, if you could own guns, nobody would be shooting firecrackers at you, for fear of what the return fire would be.
We have enough guns here and we call it a problem, not a solution. :)
poster342002
18-10-2006, 14:17
Let's not get dragged into the gun-ownership debate again.
SubZeroCat
18-10-2006, 14:19
Let's not get dragged into the gun-ownership debate again.
He started it, I finished it.
PacificOcean
18-10-2006, 16:49
Round here they hold them and then run and point them at people.
It's only a matter of time before some stupid cunt gets serious burns.
This is precisely the sort of thing the Darwinian awards were set up for.
ovaltina
21-10-2006, 07:11
Round here they hold them and then run and point them at people.
It's only a matter of time before some stupid cunt gets serious burns.
Housefire in Brixton on Thurs night, thought to have been caused by somebody lobbing a firework through an open first floor window.
Surely it's time to ban fireworks? Don't think Tony/Gordon would lose too many votes. They might even gain one or two and it wouldn't cost them anything.
Fireworks were going off at 3.45 this morning, with an early morning explosion or two rocking the morning air at around 7.45.
I'm going right off fireworks.
As mentioned in my thread lost in general forum, kids managed to burn down their family home with fireworks in this estate, just a few days ago. Actually thinking back, there's been hardly any bangs going off since then..
Mrs Magpie
21-10-2006, 09:59
:confused: It's not lost....took me less than a minute to find it, Loki
www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=181735
ah yeh, by lost I meant relegated to page 47 or summink as they do in general, sorry ;)
Mrs Magpie
21-10-2006, 10:03
Ah, right.....I misunderstood totally there Loki, sorry
lighterthief
21-10-2006, 10:20
Yep, London Fields was treated to a lovely ad-hoc display around 2am last night, kids shooting them off at each other etc - reminded me of the scene at the last American base in Apocalypse Now.
Given that a) it's illegal to sell fireworks to anyone under 18, b) it is illegal to set them off between 11pm and 7am (except for Bonfire Night etc) and c) I have a fair idea which local emporium is selling them, I'm thinking of a having a quiet word with the shopkeeper and explaining that if they keep going off I will report him to the police for selling fireworks to underage kids.
Might not stop the sales, but perhaps he'll think twice.
A woman lost her eye in London Fields last year because of these plonkers, and was then denied criminal compensation as no criminal act had been perpetrated :confused:
did anyone here not set off fireworks when they were a kid at inappropriate times?
i know i did :confused:
Mrs Magpie
21-10-2006, 11:00
No, never and neither have my kids.....
did anyone here not set off fireworks when they were a kid at inappropriate times?
no, nor any of my mates... unless you're counting sparklers :D
RushcroftRoader
21-10-2006, 11:14
nope, far too well brought up as a child.
Nearly got hit my a firework at an organisaed display though. The rocket fell over as it was about to ignite and went off at a low angle. It went about 8 inches past my right ear through the only gap in the crowd. Didn't even realised what had happened until I saw my mother's shocked face. You have absolutely no time to react - they go off so fast.
must just be me :o :D
You're not alone I did as well, but it was generally in fields in the middle of nowhere and doing stupid suff like attaching them to model planes. Neither me or my mates ever fired them at a person or put them through folks' letter boxes unlike some of the kids today.
It's been suprisingly quiet around Highbury/Essex Road so far this year, but I bet I've just jinxed myself saying that.
You're not alone I did as well, but it was generally in fields in the middle of nowhere and doing stupid suff like attaching them to model planes. Neither me or my mates ever fired them at a person or put them through folks' letter boxes unlike some of the kids today.
same as tbh - weedkiller bombs as well in the woods was fun too.
luckily i grew out of that stuff a long time ago.
Mrs Magpie
21-10-2006, 20:12
Some huge fuckers going off about 15 feet from my front door.....
*sigh*
Mrs Magpie
21-10-2006, 20:14
Neither me or my mates ever fired them at a person or put them through folks' letter boxes unlike some of the kids today.It's not just the kids of today...when my daughter was little ( about 18 months old) some teenage twat threw one under her pushchair....she's 21 now....
did anyone here not set off fireworks when they were a kid at inappropriate times?
i know i did :confused:Yes. But not an endless stream of fireworks blasting through just about every hour of the night from late September onwards and generally aimed horizontally.
suzee blue cheese
21-10-2006, 21:12
Anyoone in Woolies the time some little fuckers shot fireworks into the queue? That was 2003. The year it seemed to be de rigeur for kids to shoot them off at the High St shoppers St Saturday afternoons.
Sorry to hear it's kicking off again. Not pleasant and not funny.
It's definitely much worse than last year. Obviously the local traders have been selling them to kids again. Probably doesn't help that it's warm outdoors.
Anyoone in Woolies the time some little fuckers shot fireworks into the queue? That was 2003. The year it seemed to be de rigeur for kids to shoot them off at the High St shoppers St Saturday afternoons.
Sorry to hear it's kicking off again. Not pleasant and not funny.
Try working in a school. The little darlings like nothing better than to set them off down corridors... :eek:
Shippou-Chan
22-10-2006, 10:30
had a couple of low flyin ones around here just a sec ago
mind you doesn't seam particularly worse than other years
and hey at least the loud bangs at night are fireworks
2.30am this morning there was a bloke chasing someone down Coldharbour Lane with a big firework on a stick that was blasting out huge rockets. Just missed him a couple of times too.
and hey at least the loud bangs at night are fireworks
Yes could be a lot worse. A mate who spent some time in the capital of Honduras said the sound of guns fired into the air by pissed, drugged up revellers would barely warrant a mention.
2.30am this morning there was a bloke chasing someone down Coldharbour Lane with a big firework on a stick that was blasting out huge rockets. Just missed him a couple of times too.
nice :rolleyes:
Mrs Magpie
22-10-2006, 10:41
A neighbour has just told me the reason my house is a target is because I'm the only one in my little block of houses that has a chimney (more of a tall vent really) and they're trying to hit it as target practice.....
gaijingirl
22-10-2006, 10:56
I know I shouldn't laugh and it's not funny but.... :D :D :D
(((((((((Mrs Magpie's chimney pot))))))))))
A neighbour has just told me the reason my house is a target is because I'm the only one in my little block of houses that has a chimney (more of a tall vent really) and they're trying to hit it as target practice.....<editor takes aim>
Mrs Magpie
22-10-2006, 11:08
Well it does explain that time you said all you could see of my place from your flat was a barrage of fireworks going over the roof.....
Shippou-Chan
22-10-2006, 11:11
ohhh no need to go to brockwell park this year then
*heads over to Mrs M's*
Tamaya~~~!
Mrs Magpie
22-10-2006, 11:20
It has come as a a relief to know it's the chimney that's been singled out and not me personally....I was starting to get paranoid....apparently it was a favourite target years before I moved in......it's metal so makes a satisfying clang when the missile has found its target
gaijingirl
22-10-2006, 11:32
again... :D :D :D
gaijingirl
22-10-2006, 11:54
some fuckwit appears to be letting off fireworks at the moment, in the park, in the rain! :rolleyes: Someone must be very bored indeed!
waverunner
22-10-2006, 11:57
There's a small wood/forest type thing behind my flat. So guess where the smart arse kids are setting off their fireworks now? Why do I think this forest will not be around for long...
Mrs Magpie
22-10-2006, 19:30
Thankfully it's quite quiet now because it's pissing down.....
There were some very loud bangs round here tonight - the cats were a bit freaked out, the poor loves. Mind you, they get freaked out if I rattle the pans loudly!
did anyone here not set off fireworks when they were a kid at inappropriate times?
i know i did :confused:
Yep, we did too.
Mrs Magpie
22-10-2006, 20:22
There were some very loud bangs round here tonight - the cats were a bit freaked out, the poor loves. Mind you, they get freaked out if I rattle the pans loudly!Our cat seems bomb-proof....the dog sometimes gets jumpy.
gaijingirl
22-10-2006, 20:44
Our cats couldn't care less about firework bangs and appear not to notice.
They can, however, hear the opening of a bag of Science Plan from the other side of the garden.... :confused:
Mrs Magpie
22-10-2006, 20:46
Science Plan Is that the stuff Ms T calls Kitty Crack?
gaijingirl
22-10-2006, 21:12
I don't know. It's the stuff the vet sells - they like it but they tend to be a bit disappointed when we give it to them. We call Whiskas kitty crack.. they go absolutely nuts if we give them any Whiskas stuff.... that they can tell if the local shop has had a delivery.... :D
poster342002
23-10-2006, 09:27
I'm not totally certain this idiotic phenomenon can be entirely blamed on shops selling to the underaged. I think there's a whole type of immature never-quite-growing-up "adult" in their late teens-early twenties who hang around with and provide fireworks to these lower-teen kids.
This firework misuse problem seemed to be less prevelent last year and the year before that - following an atrocious outbreak of firework misuse during 2003. Why's it crept back again? :confused:
In addition to what I said above, another thought occurs to me that a lot of shopkeepers may be being intimidated into selling fireworks to groups of youths barging into small shops and "asking" the shopkeeper to sell them. Not quite robbery, but a sort of "buying with menaces".
Anyoone in Woolies the time some little fuckers shot fireworks into the queue? That was 2003. The year it seemed to be de rigeur for kids to shoot them off at the High St shoppers St Saturday afternoons.
It was around that time that I saw some little fucktards fire some underneath a No3 bus outside Morely's on a Saturday lunchtime. The driver went fucking mental.
Is that the stuff Ms T calls Kitty Crack?
Yes. The cats hang about in a disreputable fashion and scratch the carpet at 6 in the morning to remind us that it's time for them to score.
Mrs Magpie
23-10-2006, 21:01
SHIT!
Massive firework just exploded on the roof...I think I may have lost some tiles...there was a massive bang, a sort of scraping noise on the roof and then a sound like breaking tiles....all the nearest streetlights have been vandalised so it's too dark to tell until morning
Mrs Magpie
23-10-2006, 21:13
Bloody hell....and still they keep coming :mad:
Mrs Magpie
23-10-2006, 21:28
Thankfully it seems to have gone quiet...I wish it would rain, then they won't start up again....
shakespearegirl
23-10-2006, 21:31
Sounds like they are on Coldharbour Lane now, loads going off.
Hope your roof is ok
Mrs Magpie
23-10-2006, 21:33
Thankfully if it's not, I'm a tenant....
I was just watching your last onslaught MrsM. I felt like a war correspondent!
Mrs Magpie
23-10-2006, 21:35
I was hiding in a foxhole!
Mrs Magpie
23-10-2006, 21:51
Actually I'm still a bit adrenalised from the roof explosion....not nice....I was more worried in case of fire rather than roof tiles to be honest....
Mrs Magpie
23-10-2006, 22:07
Hallelujah! Massive clap of thunder! My prayers have been answered.....unless it was the mother of all fireworks......
had a couple at window level on the high street tonight :eek:
RaverDrew
23-10-2006, 23:28
Shit, maybe they're aiming for the webcam ??? :eek:
Mrs Magpie
24-10-2006, 09:20
OK, the metal cowl has been knocked off and the tiles around the chimney are loosened and a bit skew-whiff.....I've been up in the loft this morning to check for signs of rain coming in but it seems OK so far......heigh ho.....
SHIT!
Massive firework just exploded on the roof...I think I may have lost some tiles...there was a massive bang, a sort of scraping noise on the roof and then a sound like breaking tiles....all the nearest streetlights have been vandalised so it's too dark to tell until morning
I suppose it's pointless to mention this ridiculous and dangerous anarchy to the police. Are you and the minor Magpies OK Mrs M?
Mrs Magpie
24-10-2006, 18:23
I was all on my ownsome apart from the livestock....normally the dog & cat are unfazed, but we all jumped....it did knot up my stomach a bit because I got paranoid that possibly the roof was in danger of fire.....
The fireworks have just started up again *sigh*
As I said to your lovely shining girl earlier, the fireworks season seems to have got shorter....but more concentrated :(
The Barrier Block's coming under a bit of fire tonight too.
If one of those twats hits my flat, I'm going to go down and have a fucking word because it's getting on my tits now.
subversplat
24-10-2006, 18:32
did anyone here not set off fireworks when they were a kid at inappropriate times?
i know i did :confused:
I used to light them and throw them off the multi storey car park :o
I used to light them and throw them off the multi storey car park :oI think the main difference is the sheer volume of fireworks going off every fucking night/day/morning/afternoon. They're currently going off about one a minute tonight. All fucking night.
When I said 'every minute' what I really meant was "every 15 seconds.' And almost all of them aimed at houses/people.
MrsM: if they're damaging your property and stressing you out, maybe it's time you gave the police a call?
Mrs Magpie
24-10-2006, 18:55
The Housing Association bods are coming over Thursday or Friday and will make a report to the community bobby
Mrs Magpie
24-10-2006, 18:58
I was only stressed because of the massive noise, and because I'm on my own while BL is in South Korea....both me offspring still at home were staying with mates, but both will be back later tonight....Death Metal Magpie is doing a gig on Tottenham Court Rd somewhere and Middle Magpie is out having a drink with her mates....
waverunner
24-10-2006, 19:06
We had the classic 'firework in the postbox' today. Yeah how nice, burn everyone's letters that they're sending :rolleyes:
Right now there's what I can only describe as a pitched battle going on with groups of yoots blasting huge - and I mean HUGE - explosive fireworks at each other.
Not a parent in sight, natch.
shakespearegirl
24-10-2006, 20:06
Its pretty crazy at LJ as well
Mrs Magpie
24-10-2006, 20:07
My daughter did a recce as to safest route back in through the estate before she came home.....
I never thought I'd say this - because I love fireworks and fully understand why kids love to lark about with them - but something has to be done because it's getting way out of hand.
The kids here seem to have an unlimited supply of fucking enormous house-shaking fireworks throughout the night and seeing as there's not a parent in sight to stop them, someone's going to get seriously hurt soon.
And they're still going off, with a gang of about 12 youths firing off enormous fireworks (some about three foot long) at each other. How the fuck can they afford this endless supply of the things?
There's not been a solitary peep of complaint from any parents or adults, so they're free to carry on firing rockets at houses and each other, wherever they like.
Yet more <WHEEEEE!> <KAPOW!> <BOOM!> x 100
Have these kids invented perpetual fireworks or summat?
Either that or they must be loaded.
tarannau
25-10-2006, 05:58
Hate to say it, but I've got to say that our favourite German superdiscounter isn't helping. I did fear the worst when I saw cheap deals on fireworks in the Lidl catalogue, a worry confirmed when I overheard a big bunch of teens hanging outside gathering cash and circling items in the aforementioned catalogue.
<tongue in cheek, adopt little Englander voice>
They could't get us with the Luftwaffe, but they're now using their cheap supermarkets to attack Blighty. Stick to stollen and cheap deals on antiquated riding equipment Lidl!
aurora green
25-10-2006, 06:53
Hate to say it, but I've got to say that our favourite German superdiscounter isn't helping. I did fear the worst when I saw cheap deals on fireworks in the Lidl catalogue, a worry confirmed when I overheard a big bunch of teens hanging outside gathering cash and circling items in the aforementioned catalogue.
<tongue in cheek, adopt little Englander voice>
They could't get us with the Luftwaffe, but they're now using their cheap supermarkets to attack Blighty. Stick to stollen and cheap deals on antiquated riding equipment Lidl!
:D
There's truth there though...
...And it was impressive looking, though very cheap, lidl fireworks my son and his dad were mugged for last year.
Andy the Don
25-10-2006, 07:35
Hate to say it, but I've got to say that our favourite German superdiscounter isn't helping. I did fear the worst when I saw cheap deals on fireworks in the Lidl catalogue, a worry confirmed when I overheard a big bunch of teens hanging outside gathering cash and circling items in the aforementioned catalogue.
<tongue in cheek, adopt little Englander voice>
They could't get us with the Luftwaffe, but they're now using their cheap supermarkets to attack Blighty. Stick to stollen and cheap deals on antiquated riding equipment Lidl!
Can you not report the shop in question to the council? In Lewisham the council have clamped down heavily on shops selling fireworks to under 18's. Blissfull peace in SE13 hardly heard a whizz-bang all year.
tarannau
25-10-2006, 07:42
Can you not report the shop in question to the council? In Lewisham the council have clamped down heavily on shops selling fireworks to under 18's. Blissfull peace in SE13 hardly heard a whizz-bang all year.
I suspect that the gang of youths outside Lidl only sent in one guy to purchase, probably someone's older brother over the age of 18. It's difficult to hold Lidl responsible for that, even if discount fireworks may not be a deal they should be offering. I would think that there are probably more unscrupulous retailers out there.
Here's my proposed fascist fireworks regime: no fireworks to be made available for sale until a week before November 5th.
Here's my proposed fascist fireworks regime: no fireworks to be made available for sale until a week before November 5th.
Would cause Diwali / Eid / chinese new year celebrants etc am sure loads of others to go nuts....
My fascist firework regime...ban them all, only sold to licensed displays...sick and tired of them myself
Yes, Divali in particular is a bigger deal to some than 5th November so gearing the laws around one celebration isn't gonna work
EastEnder
25-10-2006, 09:17
I had to seal up all my windows last night as I was a bit paranoid about being on the receiving end of a horizontally fired rocket, one of many being unleashed by kids on the street. They appeared to be engaged in some sort of pitched battle with one and other. I'm pretty sure a couple of rockets hit the shop front below my flat. If they end up hideously injuring each other in the process I really couldn't care less, it's the least they deserve, I just wonder how long it is until they blind some innocent bystander.
detective-boy
25-10-2006, 16:36
MrsM: if they're damaging your property and stressing you out, maybe it's time you gave the police a call?
I would have thought an e-mail to your ward Neighbourhood Team (access via Met website) would be in order, Mrs. M.
As for the pitched battles described by editor, that sounds like enough grounds to call the non-emergency number straight away. Make it clear that it is more than just some noisy fireworks in someone's garden - they shouldn't be being used in the street at all.
If they are being deliberately aimed at premises or people (known or otherwise) it would merit a 999 call - describe it as assault or damage using fireworks.
Although the kids will probably leg it on police arrival, and there will be little hope of identifying them retrospectively, at least it keeps them on their toes and allows the police to build up a full pattern of what is happening - perhaps directing patrols to visit more regularly if it is a particular area all the time.
I had to seal up all my windows last night as I was a bit paranoid about being on the receiving end of a horizontally fired rocket, one of many being unleashed by kids on the street.
Every residence in our estate has received a notice to "Keep windows and doors closed" :eek: (A home burned down here last week due to fireworks)
EastEnder
25-10-2006, 17:36
If they are being deliberately aimed at premises or people (known or otherwise) it would merit a 999 call - describe it as assault or damage using fireworks.
The kids in my street last night were firing rockets at each other, hitting various phone boxes and cars in the process......:rolleyes:
<WHOOSH!> <KABOOM!> <WHOOSH!> <KABOOM!> x one-fucking-thousand.
Please God, let it rain and wash these fucking noisy cunts off the streets.
And now the fucking morons are firing rockets into the petrol station and across Coldharbour Lane.
RaverDrew
26-10-2006, 00:58
Do you think getting any pictures or footage may be useful to the police ?
You must be in a fairly decent position to get some useful evidence.
You must be in a fairly decent position to get some useful evidence.I'm not sure if I want to be seen hanging out of a window taking pics, as I imagine I'd become their next target.
These fuckers are running out of control and no one seems to want to stop them.
Still, there was a nice interlude just then - inbetween all the explosive fireworks, there was a brief lull and I heard the distant sound hoot of a steam engine and then watched it steam past. Nice.
RaverDrew
26-10-2006, 01:17
I'm not sure if I want to be seen hanging out of a window taking pics, as I imagine I'd become their next target.
These fuckers are running out of control and no one seems to want to stop them.
Still, there was a nice interlude just then - inbetween all the explosive fireworks, there was a brief lull and I heard the distant sound hoot of a steam engine and then watched it steam past. Nice.
Understadable, shame though, no way of doing it subtly ?
Steam engines at this time of night ? :eek:
FruitandNut
26-10-2006, 03:46
Looks like there are yet more moves afoot to discuss in Parliament a ban the private sale of fireworks; I heard a mention on Aunty Beeb a couple of days ago.
Yossarian
26-10-2006, 04:00
Steam engines at this time of night ? :eek:
That was no ordinary steam train! :eek:
http://www.fireworks.com/images/contest/29458254.jpg
Johnny Canuck2
26-10-2006, 05:40
The temporary fireworks stores opened today; they have seven days to sell them legally. Now the noise will really begin.
poster342002
26-10-2006, 09:40
The temporary fireworks stores opened today; they have seven days to sell them legally. Now the noise will really begin.
Do you celebrate Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night in Canada, then? :confused:
Do you celebrate Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night in Canada, then? :confused:
Halloween, innit?
poster342002
26-10-2006, 09:56
Halloween, innit?
Oh, of course! Forgot about that.
linerider
26-10-2006, 17:50
Do you think getting any pictures or footage may be useful to the police ?
You must be in a fairly decent position to get some useful evidence.
last week someone a couple of doors down from me shouted at them to stop making so much noise at 3 in the morning and got rockets fired at their window.
Johnny Canuck2
26-10-2006, 19:51
Do you celebrate Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night in Canada, then? :confused:
No, fireworks for Halloween, Oct. 31.
Sadly, I'd welcome a more stringent firework regime. I'd like to be more liberatarian about the sale of fireworks, but they cause so much injury and stress when they are misused by kids that there isn't much of an argument in favour of them being so easily and cheaply available.
Mrs Magpie
30-10-2006, 11:59
My friend's son had his school trousers melted by a firework on his way home from school the week before last....four o'clock in the afternoon...he wasn't injured luckily, although very frightened. He's from a single parent family much strapped for cash and she only just bought his new school trousers in September......
My friend's son had his school trousers melted by a firework on his way home from school the week before last....four o'clock in the afternoon...he wasn't injured luckily, although very frightened. I bumped into a good friend of yours and mine last night outside the block and she was really distressed after some fucking cunts had blasted rockets right past her.
She needs a walking stick to get about so she was unable to run away from these shitehawks.
Fortunately, the police arrived promptly, but these fuckers are way, waaay out of control now. If any of them try it on me, they'll get a fucking slap for their troubles.
Mrs Magpie
30-10-2006, 12:38
Shit...
:(
She'd just left my place to go to a gig where she was playing to get to the sound check on time. I'm meeting her later....hope it didn't wreck her confidence for her performance.
tarannau
30-10-2006, 13:10
Little shits. Why can't they save the fireworks and use them responsibly; firing at the noisy police helicopters or something.
It's how casually reckless they are with fireworks that gets me. I liked a bit of fun as a kid myself, but I don't think I'd ever have walked down the road clutching an air bomb in one hand (in those little sporty 'shooter' gloves) like a demented robocop, firing off occasional booming bursts of flame at my mates.
The local drug dealers told off the youth for firing at me last year in a good samaritan moment and since then there's been an uneasy truce, but they're genuinely irresponsible little bastards.
Guineveretoo
30-10-2006, 13:21
Someone was letting off fireworks in the estate over the back of my garden, about an hour ago?
What on earth was that about? There were hissy ones, as well as bangy ones, too. :confused:
Droppin'
30-10-2006, 16:37
Some little c*nt dropped one through my letterbox the other night. Luckily it is the communal entrance so contained and not in a lived in area, but it burned the carpet and scared the shit out of my girlfriend.
Me and the upstairs neighbour went out after him with a stick and a golf club between us and it gave us great pleasure to catch him and beat him to within an inch of his life...
ok we didn't really, but it was massively satisfying to see him run and scream for his life when we caught him.
Little shit will think twice next time.
The good news: they've stopped throwing fireworks at each other. Huzzah!
The bad news: they're now throwing bottles at each other from either side of the street. Doh!
:(
Johnny Canuck2
31-10-2006, 02:19
My kid just called. He's going out trick or treating tomorrow, and he wants me to buy a huge pile of fireworks.
I'm being responsible, though. I'm going along, which means I'll buy more than I would have if I wasn't going to be there...
Loud bangs! Bright twirly colours! Yahoo!
Johnny Canuck2
31-10-2006, 02:21
My friend's son had his school trousers melted by a firework on his way home from school the week before last....four o'clock in the afternoon...he wasn't injured luckily, although very frightened. He's from a single parent family much strapped for cash and she only just bought his new school trousers in September......
Er.... I don't think I'd wear plastic trousers around this time of year.
lizzieloo
31-10-2006, 02:23
We actually had a firework aimed at us this evening, we were on a narrowboat crusing along, fucking shits actually fired one right at us, missed our heads by about a foot
:mad: :mad: :rolleyes: :mad: :mad:
Johnny Canuck2
31-10-2006, 02:35
The main problem here is cost. They're pretty expensive, otherwise we would try to create something really impressive that went on for a long time.
Mrs Magpie
31-10-2006, 19:36
Well a nasty new development on the firework front...
:mad: drive-by fireworking :mad:
:mad: This is adults not kids :mad:
I bumped into someone last night who told me that someone was driving a car up and down Somerleyton Road 3 nights ago firing fireworks at pedestrians...including her 3 week old baby in his pushchair who luckily wasn't injured...more luck than anything I reckon.
lizzieloo
31-10-2006, 19:39
Is any of this getting into the press?
Mrs Magpie
31-10-2006, 19:45
Well, the South London press had a story a week or so ago about the couple whose flat was gutted after someone fired a rocket through their window...The SLP said it was Clapham but they are notoriously bad about looking at the postcode only, ie SW9 is always Stockwell SW2 is always Brixton etc etc
poster342002
01-11-2006, 09:56
Just what the hell is wrong with people who can't seem to get any enjoyment out of anything unless it's causing physical harm to somebody else? :mad:
Its been quiet on the western front this week:),maybe it has something to do with bobbys patrolling. Might change next week as the bobbys have three other estates to patrol and they do each estate for a week.
Last night's firework onslaught wasn't up to the usual all-out battle status, but there was still a few fuckwits setting them off at 2.30am.
A more worrying trend is the craze for kids throwing bottles at each other. They go through bins to collect a stockpile and then stand on either side of the road and hurl bottles at each other.
It's only a matter of time before one of these idiots - or a bystander - gets seriously hurt, or one of them gets knocked over by a car as they keep running in front of the traffic while they're being chased by their bottle throwing 'chums'.
Last night's firework onslaught wasn't up to the usual all-out battle status, but there was still a few fuckwits setting them off at 2.30am.
A more worrying trend is the craze for kids throwing bottles at each other. They go through bins to collect a stockpile and then stand on either side of the road and hurl bottles at each other.
It's only a matter of time before one of these idiots - or a bystander - gets seriously hurt, or one of them gets knocked over by a car as they keep running in front of the traffic while they're being chased by their bottle throwing 'chums'.
As long as the passers-by don't get hurt, these little tykes deserve all the self inflicted injury they get.
Old West indian proverb, 'those who don't hear, will feel....'
nino_savatte
02-11-2006, 13:53
The kids have been letting off fireworks here in W6 for the last 4 weeks. I thought that a law had been passed that forebade the use of fireworks after 10pm. Wtf happened?
According to the letter put through our door by our safer neighbourhood police team, it is illegal to set fireworks off at all after 11pm and is always illegal in a public place (park, road etc) and if the people doing it are under 18. Maximum £5000 fine or six months inside. Our safer neighbourhood team say they are keen on combatting this, as well as fighting dogs and mini mopeds and it urges us to call them.
I haven't tried yet so I dunno what the response would be.
nino_savatte
02-11-2006, 14:36
According to the letter put through our door by our safer neighbourhood police team, it is illegal to set fireworks off at all after 11pm and is always illegal in a public place (park, road etc) and if the people doing it are under 18. Maximum £5000 fine or six months inside. Our safer neighbourhood team say they are keen on combatting this, as well as fighting dogs and mini mopeds and it urges us to call them.
I haven't tried yet so I dunno what the response would be.
The police, quite clearly, aren't enforcing the law and are allowing kids to set off fireworks at all hours. :mad:
I had an interesting interlude early tonight.
I popped into the local grocery store opposite my block just as the latest salvo of high velocity rockets was being launched from the ramp opposite.
A gang of yoots scrambled inside and we were then treated to an impromptu Iraqi Shock And Awe Enactment, with huge great explosives fireworks blasted across the road and detonating off the windows and doors of the shop.
And then they stopped and I was on my way.
Johnny Canuck2
03-11-2006, 01:29
I had an interesting interlude early tonight.
I popped into the local grocery store opposite my block just as the latest salvo of high velocity rockets was being launched from the ramp opposite.
A gang of yoots scrambled inside and we were then treated to an impromptu Iraqi Shock And Awe Enactment, with huge great explosives fireworks blasted across the road and detonating off the windows and doors of the shop.
And then they stopped and I was on my way.
So, these kids deliberately shoot them at people?
So, these kids deliberately shoot them at people?Yes. They fire them at their friends. Great big, three-foot long explosive rockets that could cause real harm if it hit someone in the face.
And when they run out of fireworks, they lob bottles across the road at each other.
Here's the kind of fuckwittery that's going down:A man and a young child have been treated in hospital after a firework exploded on a bus.
They were injured when the device ricocheted off the inside of the bus which was carrying 15 passengers.
It is understood two men threw the firework onto the number 173 service at a bus stop in Ripple Road, Dagenham, east London, on Wednesday evening.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6108882.stm
lizzieloo
03-11-2006, 01:59
Yes. They fire them at their friends. Great big, three-foot long explosive rockets that could cause real harm if it hit someone in the face.
And when they run out of fireworks, they lob bottles across the road at each other.
Not just their friends, had one fired at us by some shits recently, we were definately their target as we were cruising along the canal at the time and were the only people there.
So, these kids deliberately shoot them at people?
This doesn't happen in Canada does it?
Well, the South London press had a story a week or so ago about the couple whose flat was gutted after someone fired a rocket through their window...The SLP said it was Clapham but they are notoriously bad about looking at the postcode only, ie SW9 is always Stockwell SW2 is always Brixton etc etc
Shit, must have been the home on my estate, we're towards the Clapham end, and the leaflet through the door warned us to keep windows closed...
I cycled underneath an arcing ballistic firework battle between two sides of the road on my way to a gig last night. Very pretty.
nino_savatte
03-11-2006, 11:37
This doesn't happen in Canada does it?
Whereas south of the border, kids shoot each other instead.
PacificOcean
03-11-2006, 12:14
I heard my first fireworks of the year last night. It was at 8:20pm and lasted for about 10 minutes.
When I read of some of the horror stories on here, Zone 6 has it's advantages.
Johnny Canuck2
03-11-2006, 21:45
This doesn't happen in Canada does it?
It has happened. I recall one New Year's Eve when I was 18, almost firing a roman candle into the head of my friend while staggering drunkenly through Chinatown. But it doesn't happen as a regular occurrence.
If some laughing teen fired an incendiary at my head, I"d remove the fireworks from his hand with much aggression, then hold him on the pavement till the police arrived. Most teens know that this is how the average person would respond if they tried pulling off much of that kind of thing.
suzee blue cheese
05-11-2006, 21:55
So how was it tonight? It's pretty much stopped round here now apart from some far off rockets..
It was nice to see rockets going vertically for a change tonight!
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