For Those Who Think Fireworks Should Not Be Subject To Licence!

[Apc2604]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-55511016

Appalling!

[royfromaus]

*cats can kill birds, not cars!
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Now you have set of a crap rap song earworm :0/

[Deskdiary]

Atheist at 6.39pm sums it up perfectly for me.

[royfromaus]

What killed these?

[Apc2604]

Burley, well said.

Barsel's posted video made things much clearer. I personally think it was almost certain that irresponsible use of fireworks was to blame.

[Atheist]

Roy; I've seen that sort of thing in Italy, where the locals pop off at the migrating flights, whether for light suppers of for fun I don't know.

[Barsel]

Roy, there's no reporting with the video, what was in the news report?

[burlyshirley]

Thanks Apc.

[tiggerblue10]

This one Roy.

https://images.app.goo.gl/oYXM8ijsTR4sk4Jf7

[Atheist]

I think on balance that I agree that fireworks should be licensed, but I do feel that I'm being very old-fashioned and 'health and safety' and 'anti-fun' when I say that. I think we old folk are taking all the danger and fun of youth away from our kids. Of course, that takes away the comfort and security of old folks, but that seems to be rather widely accepted at the moment, during the corona debate. Life is complicated, isn't it?

[DTCwordfan]

2002 Darwin Awards: Apparently, a Croatian was killed while trying to open a hand grenade with a chainsaw. He wanted to retrieve the explosive to make firecrackers for the New Year's holiday.

I'm trying to find the Kansis citizen who bought a huge Chinese firecracker and stored it away 'secretly' from his family for Independence Day. He came into the kitchen, seven to the wind, turned on the oven for a snack - and a few minutes later the house came down on him - his place of hiding for the cracker being......

[DTCwordfan]

sorry Kansas....

[Barsel]

Found the news report Roy but it isn't conclusive.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mystery-explained-police-after-hundreds-17580600

[Atheist]

Reminds me of somebody who tried to make booze from alcohol hand wash.

[Togo]

13th March 2020. No fireworks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51880855

"The vet who conducted the inquiry has confirmed that the injuries and death of the birds was caused by the birds striking the tarmac or the nearby bushes, and probably consistent with the birds avoiding either severe weather or a raptor in the area."

He added: "I hope that this will put a line under this.

"It's quite a common thing and happens all around the world."

Then. ... .

Here is the original picture cited as a recent event that blames New Years Eve fireworks but was on Anglesey last winter. Get over yourselves.

https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/mystery-of-300-dead-birds-that-fell-out-of-the-sky-finally-solved/

[DTCwordfan]

The Healey Family (Rattler cider) have done it the other way around - my mother's home had a large tub of gin sanitiser as the local hossie etc has been supplied. My sister is very happy, gin hand-sanitiser and their gin to sanitise her innards.

[Old_Geezer]

If the birds are that daft, probably best they take themselves out of the gene pool and leave their smarter siblings to repopulate their number.

[royfromaus]

I've got a mate (more an associate) currently in hospital with his fingers in bandages...blew them up hissing about with bangers. He is a 40 year old youth.

[tiggerblue10]

I'm all for fun Atheist and can see your point of view but I just think it would be much safer if fireworks were limited to organised public displays.

My cousins birthday is on 5/11 and we would always gather round his when we were kids. We used to write our names in the air with sparklers which was fun but there was usually one firework when lit, didn't go off. Our parents didn't attempt to re-light but there was always something in news about bad accidents occuring afterwards.

[DTCwordfan]

roy, that comes from going out with those sort of women....a 'banger' is an euphemism over here for women of a certain pedigree....you may want to question him when he emerges from the hossie....

[jackthehat]

One of my mates scuppered his own burgeoning career as a darts-player by blowing most of his right-thumb off when a banger he was going to throw at his brother went off slightly before he anticipated.
Mind you clattering an OH power-cable when he vaulted over a railway bridge several years later relieved him of most of what remained, in any case....