Fucking fireworks at 1.50am

[Droppin']

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.

 

[editor]

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 Canuck3]

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 Canuck3]

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]

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

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

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]

Well a nasty new development on the firework front...
drive-by fireworking
This is adults not kids
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]

Is any of this getting into the press?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

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]

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?

 

[luba]

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.

 

[editor]

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'.

 

[Treacle Toes]

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]

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?

 

[Oula]

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]

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.

 

[editor]

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 Canuck3]

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?

 

[editor]

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.

 

[editor]

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]

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.

 

[hendo]

So, these kids deliberately shoot them at people?

This doesn't happen in Canada does it?

 

[Loki]

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...

 

[Crispy]

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]

This doesn't happen in Canada does it?

Whereas south of the border, kids shoot each other instead.

 

[PacificOcean]

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 Canuck3]

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]

So how was it tonight? It's pretty much stopped round here now apart from some far off rockets..

 

[editor]

It was nice to see rockets going vertically for a change tonight!