Another reason to only have fireworks at professional displays and not sell it irresponsible people and kids
The concept of fireworks night is dumb af anyway. Bin the whole thing
Read the article for more details.
They didn’t actually say he was injured by fireworks.
Which is odd.
No surrender no Popey in Lewes always remember the 17 martyrs
Didn’t he die from jumping a fence and landing on a greenhouse? Tbf that could happen any night of the year, and with no fireworks.
Why do people always take irresponsible misuse of something as an excuse to ban it for everyone in the country. If someone had poured petrol on the street, and this person died in the same way, whilst presumably running away, would we be calling to ban all flammable liquids?
This article is garbage. It’s trying as hard as it possibly can to link the death to kids throwing fireworks, but nowhere in the entire article does it ever use a phrase like “because of”. It’s all circumstantial weasel-words like “near to” and “after”.
It’s possible someone was hurt by misused fireworks (ie, that it wasn’t merely a coincidence), but given how hard the article’s trying to imply a link between the two things but the complete absence of an *actual claim* that the death was related to fireworks, this reeks of bullshit.
i can tell by this title that the two are entirely unrelated and its just said like that to gain clicks
I live in the Netherlands and they’ve been letting fireworks off for weeks at the secondary school opposite my house! I keep thinking there’s a school shooter! I have no clue how they’re not searching kids bags before they go in, or whether people are letting them off outside but dear god, enough!
We had so much fun as kids with fireworks around bonfire night.
Very irresponsible and could have been dangerous.
I had a bike with cowhorn handlebars and the grips could pull off. That was a mobile mini rocket launcher.
I then progressed to pulling the sleeve of my campari ski jacket over my hand and lighting the rockets and then throwing them before the propulsion kicked in.
This was all done on a large park so not fired at houses or people’s back gardens.
The best you could get in those days from the shops was an Air Bomb repeater. Which was just two air bomb bangs.
I’m sure they would do a fair amount if damage but I believe sparkler burns were more common in the 80s and 90s.
Shops didn’t even need ID in those days either I was probably buying them at 13 no problem.
It’s unfortunate that it’s going to have to take something like this to get better control over selling them.
You could only get them around bonfire night and I think it was only around Y2K they became a thing to use at New Year.
Pretty much impossible to get rid of now but fireworks are so shit and have almost no benefit with so many bad things about them
Make it illegal to sell fireworks in shops and only allow professional displays. This is the only way that will prevent firework related incidents. There are always going to be kids doing bad things with fireworks.
Other reports say he was running from the police. He jumped over a fence to get away and died after falling through a greenhouse.
I live near where this happened. There were lads of lads in the street throwing and firing fireworks at cars and down the street. The police turned up, they ran off, this lad fell through a greenhouse. Its likely he was one of the crowd playing with fireworks but his unfortunate death was an accident.
The wankers that have a big house and field opposite have big fighty family parties every chance and Bonfire night was no exception. We were watching from about 100 yards away and some of the bigger bangs were painful, serious 300m safe distance stuff with people standing directly below shrieking. They did have some of the low noise ones which were very good, just a pop but nice effects, but the big ones were rattling the windows and hurting ears.
If he was chucking fireworks at the police and then fell through a greenhouse when running away from them then I really hope the victims get their greenhouse and plants replaced.
Feral 17 year old dies after being chased by police as him and loads of his mates throw fireworks at normal, decent people.
NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST ON THIS DAY.
What if we decriminalised Fireworks? Then the war on fireworks would have failed and then the usage of fireworks would actually go down as a result
Death unrelated to fireworks
Reddit: Ban Fireworks!!!
I mean, I am for banning them but at the same time are we banning alcohol due to the deaths caused by it or that **different** because you like that?
And! That’s why we werent allowed near fireworks as kids, why are parents and careers so lax with teaching and disciplining their teenagers nowadays. I blame the parents.
I was so surprised when I came to the UK and found how unregulated fireworks are here. In Australia you need a licence. People have been seriously hurt by them before, not to mention the stress they cause to pets, people with PTSD and all the firecracker rubbish laying in my street after Burns Night.
The article doesn’t actually see if the fireworks were related to his injuries or not. It’s a right mess.
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Another reason to only have fireworks at professional displays and not sell it irresponsible people and kids
The concept of fireworks night is dumb af anyway. Bin the whole thing
Read the article for more details.
They didn’t actually say he was injured by fireworks.
Which is odd.
No surrender no Popey in Lewes always remember the 17 martyrs
Didn’t he die from jumping a fence and landing on a greenhouse? Tbf that could happen any night of the year, and with no fireworks.
Why do people always take irresponsible misuse of something as an excuse to ban it for everyone in the country. If someone had poured petrol on the street, and this person died in the same way, whilst presumably running away, would we be calling to ban all flammable liquids?
This article is garbage. It’s trying as hard as it possibly can to link the death to kids throwing fireworks, but nowhere in the entire article does it ever use a phrase like “because of”. It’s all circumstantial weasel-words like “near to” and “after”.
It’s possible someone was hurt by misused fireworks (ie, that it wasn’t merely a coincidence), but given how hard the article’s trying to imply a link between the two things but the complete absence of an *actual claim* that the death was related to fireworks, this reeks of bullshit.
i can tell by this title that the two are entirely unrelated and its just said like that to gain clicks
I live in the Netherlands and they’ve been letting fireworks off for weeks at the secondary school opposite my house! I keep thinking there’s a school shooter! I have no clue how they’re not searching kids bags before they go in, or whether people are letting them off outside but dear god, enough!
We had so much fun as kids with fireworks around bonfire night.
Very irresponsible and could have been dangerous.
I had a bike with cowhorn handlebars and the grips could pull off. That was a mobile mini rocket launcher.
I then progressed to pulling the sleeve of my campari ski jacket over my hand and lighting the rockets and then throwing them before the propulsion kicked in.
This was all done on a large park so not fired at houses or people’s back gardens.
The best you could get in those days from the shops was an Air Bomb repeater. Which was just two air bomb bangs.
I’m sure they would do a fair amount if damage but I believe sparkler burns were more common in the 80s and 90s.
Shops didn’t even need ID in those days either I was probably buying them at 13 no problem.
It’s unfortunate that it’s going to have to take something like this to get better control over selling them.
You could only get them around bonfire night and I think it was only around Y2K they became a thing to use at New Year.
Pretty much impossible to get rid of now but fireworks are so shit and have almost no benefit with so many bad things about them
Make it illegal to sell fireworks in shops and only allow professional displays. This is the only way that will prevent firework related incidents. There are always going to be kids doing bad things with fireworks.
Other reports say he was running from the police. He jumped over a fence to get away and died after falling through a greenhouse.
I live near where this happened. There were lads of lads in the street throwing and firing fireworks at cars and down the street. The police turned up, they ran off, this lad fell through a greenhouse. Its likely he was one of the crowd playing with fireworks but his unfortunate death was an accident.
The wankers that have a big house and field opposite have big fighty family parties every chance and Bonfire night was no exception. We were watching from about 100 yards away and some of the bigger bangs were painful, serious 300m safe distance stuff with people standing directly below shrieking. They did have some of the low noise ones which were very good, just a pop but nice effects, but the big ones were rattling the windows and hurting ears.
If he was chucking fireworks at the police and then fell through a greenhouse when running away from them then I really hope the victims get their greenhouse and plants replaced.
Feral 17 year old dies after being chased by police as him and loads of his mates throw fireworks at normal, decent people.
NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST ON THIS DAY.
What if we decriminalised Fireworks? Then the war on fireworks would have failed and then the usage of fireworks would actually go down as a result
Death unrelated to fireworks
Reddit: Ban Fireworks!!!
I mean, I am for banning them but at the same time are we banning alcohol due to the deaths caused by it or that **different** because you like that?
And! That’s why we werent allowed near fireworks as kids, why are parents and careers so lax with teaching and disciplining their teenagers nowadays. I blame the parents.
I was so surprised when I came to the UK and found how unregulated fireworks are here. In Australia you need a licence. People have been seriously hurt by them before, not to mention the stress they cause to pets, people with PTSD and all the firecracker rubbish laying in my street after Burns Night.
The article doesn’t actually see if the fireworks were related to his injuries or not. It’s a right mess.