Bloody Fireworks

[TomDeGraaff]

In Victoria, private fireworks are supposed to be banned. However, every year at Christmas, New Year and Australia Day, the selfish yobbos come out from under their rocks and terrorise the local wildlife, pets and aviary birds. It seems to be a law that the police are not interested in following up on. They don't seem to care.

These neanderthals seem to get their crap from our great national capital and bring them home to play wargames with the gum trees... and during a fire-prone time in a fire-prone state. Not many hurt themselves. Well, I should say not ENOUGH of them hurt themselves for the authorities to bother with them. Sorry!! Venting!!

Any ideas as to how to minimise damage/injuries during these nights of skyrocket chaos?

Cheers

Tom

[Painted4]

New years we ALWAYS have people just up the road letting off fireworks, ever since they've built a new-ish estate just behind our block. Just cross our fingers and hope that all the birds are alright in the morning, or that none of them end up in our gum trees.

[KENTUCKY]

I have got an idea how to stop it
shove a cracker up their exhaust pipe and let it rip
what a cracker of an idea

[KENTUCKY]

Hopefully they get a bang out of life

[Tiaris]

Didn't you guys have a childhood?
Cracker night was more keenly anticipated by local kids than Christmas or New Year where I grew up.
Thanks to all the wowsers & do-gooders, it and many other of life's simple pleasures are either illegal or regulated to the point they are longer worth the effort.
Sure it has its dangers and noises but we can't regulate for common sense & never will.

[Painted4]

Didn't you guys have a childhood?
Cracker night was more keenly anticipated by local kids than Christmas or New Year where I grew up.
Thanks to all the wowsers & do-gooders, it and many other of life's simple pleasures are either illegal or regulated to the point they are longer worth the effort.
Sure it has its dangers and noises but we can't regulate for common sense & never will.

Never had the opportunity for any of that, I've not once let of a firework/cracker (and you got me, i'd love to, looks like a hell of a lot of fun)
I also don't mind that they're doing it, I would just prefer it if they didn't do it in such a built up area, and not at 2am in the morning.

[Pictorella]

We have illegals going off all through the year but particularly around the Xmas period. Doesn't bother the birds so doesn't bother me. Dogs on the other hand hate them.
My birds are pretty solid but, not even the cats faze them.

[arthur]

Didn't you guys have a childhood?
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Those were the days, building bonfires, burning down bonfires that other kids had built

Storing up crackers for months to send them off in one crazy night

These activities were the 'norm' and in the post-war days when money was a scarce commodity they were an inexpensive way of having fun

A bit like trapping finches and parrots, and collecting birds' eggs

And as for the wowsers . . most of them had letterboxes . . .




By Gee, I'm glad that I was never involved in such things

Be careful that your 'middle-age' is not the period of your life when your narrow waistline and your broad mind swap places

[peterrebecca]

Too much in life has been legislated away.

[TomDeGraaff]

Well I must say I'm amazed at the extraordinary support there is for dangerous, fire-prone explosions and spitting fires!

Don't birds nest in trees in the wild? If dogs get upset, maybe other animals less domesticated might get terrified?

Now that most people have fully covered aviaries, perhaps birds don't die any more and none of them of course leave the nests or abandon young ones.
I remember full well participating in ignorance as a kid and the toll on wildlife was tragic. Burns and eye injuries were not uncommon. I've seen the light!! (Halleluyah!) Pardon the pun.

Not everything in the "good old days" was actually good".

This is a safety, environment and fire issue. Many of us need to remember where we live. Anyway, do people put down their blinds, lose clutches of eggs, leave a light on.
What are people's experiences? Not all of us are lucky enough to live nextdoor to "do-gooders" and "wowsers". Some neighbours are less than kind.