Fucking fireworks at 1.50am

[tarannau]

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]

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!

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]

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]

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.

 

[editor]

Here's my proposed fascist fireworks regime: no fireworks to be made available for sale until a week before November 5th.

 

[DRINK?]

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

 

[Loki]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Loki]

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" (A home burned down here last week due to fireworks)

 

[EastEnder]

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......

 

[editor]

<WHOOSH!> <KABOOM!> <WHOOSH!> <KABOOM!> x one-fucking-thousand.

Please God, let it rain and wash these fucking noisy cunts off the streets.

 

[editor]

And now the fucking morons are firing rockets into the petrol station and across Coldharbour Lane.

 

[RaverDrew]

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.

 

[editor]

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]

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 ?

 

[FruitandNut]

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]

Steam engines at this time of night ?

That was no ordinary steam train!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The temporary fireworks stores opened today; they have seven days to sell them legally. Now the noise will really begin.

 

[poster342002]

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?

 

[Crispy]

Do you celebrate Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night in Canada, then?

Halloween, innit?

 

[poster342002]

Halloween, innit?

Oh, of course! Forgot about that.

 

[linerider]

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 Canuck3]

Do you celebrate Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night in Canada, then?

No, fireworks for Halloween, Oct. 31.

 

[Skim]

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]

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......

 

[editor]

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]

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]

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]

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.