Looks Like Sainsburys Are Not Selling Fireworks This Year

[woofgang]

No link as they seem to want to keep it low profile but it looks like Sainsburys have taken the decision not to sell fireworks this year. If you or someone you know are affected by the constant barrage of noise, mess and smoke that happens at this season (and when did Firework Night become Firework season?) then you might like to comment on their facebook page or website? Hopefully another step in the right direction.

[anneasquith]

Silent fireworks, win win ;*)

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // By the way, I don't like or use fireworks. I just dislike selfish authoritarian people. //

Me too, and I dislike people who don;t read what is offered in a debate and continue to waffle on, ignoring every point made.

But we are stuck with these things, like fireworks and dogs, it's just part of the life we live.

[douglas9401]

This is turning into the self importance of being earnest.

[teacake44]

I got a funny headache, yawn.

[NellieMay]

I now understand what a funny headache is!

[Barsel]

I didn't realise this thread was still live so I started a new thread for those of you who may like to know the response from Tesco.
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1679264.html

[woofgang]

anneasquith, quieter fireworks can be produced and certainly the whistle can be removed but arial (how do you spell the damn word, I mean displays in the air) fireworks always need an explosive aspect and explosions are, by their nature, noisy. This includes the kind of firework that sits on the ground and throws out capsules which explode. ....but yes the noise could be limited.

[teacake44]

Sainsburys make decisions on sales and profits, no other reason.

[NellieMay]

It's not just the noise though, is it. It the wrong hands they can cause dreadful accidents.

"In England last year, 4,436 individuals attended A&E because of an injury caused by a firework - more than double the 2,141 in 2009/10. Half of those admitted to hospital due to the discharge of fireworks were aged 18 or under and 80 per cent were male."

[NellieMay]

And you can't compare dog poo litter and fireworks. If you start comparing nuisances. They are separate issues. No one on this thread has said fireworks should be banned.

[Spicerack]

You can compare dog bites, though.

[10ClarionSt]

Just get your treacle toffee, parkin cake, toffee apples and jacket spuds and get down your local bonfire with your fireworks under your arm. Then BANG! A good old English tradition. There's some whingers on here.

[237SJ]

It's a shame people can't just limit the fireworks to one day. I have lovely memories of my Dad setting off Catherine Wheels etc in our garden and Mum cooking jacket potatos on the coals of the Rayburn. Shame everything has to be OTT these days.

[Rockrose]

In today’s Mail

Reckless yob puts FIREWORK through letterbox of home sparking inferno

[237SJ]

I remember a kid from our village sticking bangers through letterboxes 40 odd years ago. There has and always will be one numpty.

[jourdain2]

Yet another example of the stupidity and misbehaviour of a few affecting the innocent rights of the majority. My elder daughter's birthday is 5th Nov.. We always had a bonfire party for her. Pets were kept indoors, fire was smallish, fun was had and a couple of boxes of ordinary fireworks were used before burnt 'baked' spuds were rescued from the ashes (to great excitement) and eaten with pork pies and mushy peas - followed by my (at that time 'famous') 'Bonfire cake' and very good 'Plot Toffee'. Someone tell me why I should not have been allowed to do this? I will argue that it is another of my freedoms being eroded when I have not transgressed any law or caused any inconvenience to anyone.

All my life people have had individual celebrations. As a kid, we went 'progging', hauled a 'guy' around on a go-cart and built a communal bonfire. It was a great night and no-one was ever hurt. It really was a community event and brought people together. The sort of thing that has almost been lost.

I do agree that bonfire night should be confined to one night (or the nearest weekend in the case of 'official' ones) and that irresponsible fireworks use should be cracked down on firmly - but bad people happen and do stupid, often wicked, things and good people should not be penalise for the idiocy/wickedness of others.

[woofgang]

Jourdain if firework use was still as you describe it then there would be no problem. Since those days fireworks have got bigger and louder and easier to buy. They are in shops for longer periods, marketed for use at times other than november 5th and if you have the money you can actually legally buy them to use all year round. The first ones of this autumn were let off round me around 10 days ago and there will be frequent random use until around the end of november. Then there will be Christmas and New Year. A favourite prank around here is to throw lighted fireworks at ridden horses and I see that the first lit firework through a letterbox wheeze of the season has already been in the paper. Sadly the genie is out of the bottle. I dont see any way to return to the old one day a year routine. Scheduled fireworks are much easier to manage for than random ones. Honestly the people who want to see controls put in place are not a bunch of miserable old so and so's. Its a sad fact that the world has changed and we can't go back to the days that you remember.

[237SJ]

Funnily enought I haven't heard any fireworks yet this year and I live in SW London. It seems to have calmed down. I`m woken by barking foxes rather than fireworks.

[jno]

same here, 237SJ. A few years back it used to be almost non-stop from about now till Christmas, God knows why, but it's been nothing like that in recent years - a few around Guy Fawkes and Diwali but that's it (touch wood).

[237SJ]

^ We used to have a sad person who used to set them off at all hours of the day and night but hopefully he has been carted off to Feltham Young Offenders and we haven't heard anything from him since.