Went to the pub for a meal and a drink with a friend and was met with absolute scenes in Acton, London last night. I always knew it was common for kids to fire fireworks at each other on Halloween (in London) but last night a group of maybe 30-40 secondary school kids started firing them at the police.

Was absolute chaos, constant fireworks being launched in the town centre, police cars driving on the pavement trying to corner groups of kids, people screaming as fireworks landed near them. At one point they even fired a firework into a large Morissons in the town centre. Fire brigade came out and stood near the door to stop kids coming in, but eventually left because kids were firing fireworks at their vehicle outside.

It only stopped when they decided to bring out a police helicopter that hovered over the town centre for an hour or so.

I used to live in Stratford and have seen groups of kids doing it there, I kinda just struck it up to kids being kids, but this seemed another level up from that. I am genuinely curious how common this is in London and how far people take it?

I took a quick video as I was walking back home and have uploaded that to youtube if anyone is interested where this took place.

[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZRfypRAKkw](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZRfypRAKkw)

by Ragnolf_The_Wet

11 comments

  1. On Halloween? Not very widespread.

    On bonfire night – it’s like Basra

  2. The couple of weeks leading up to bonfire night it happens a lot… but tiktok is definitely making the phenomenon worse.

  4. A group of kids were lighting up fireworks on the main road last night as I came back from the shops, it’s that time of the year where there is going to be a lot of fuckery for a week

  6. As I said, these hooded youths in Stratford last year launching fireworks at the bus station, Saw my wife was pregnant and aimed straight for her.

    Worst thing was the police did not manage to catch and jail any of them.

  8. I’ve never seen fireworks on Halloween in London. It’s all about bonfire night.

  9. Start carrying a tennis racket with you and return to sender. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

  10. Plenty of twats out in Stoke Newington last night. Recognised as mostly year 9 kids with a few year 8s thrown in.

    There _were_ about half a dozen police cars roving around but they successfully missed all the action.

  11. “Bonfire night” basically lasts a week each side of the 5th November, annoyingly.

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