Fireworks - Home made bomb - explosion: 4/11/05

**spudchucka** · 7th November 2005, 13:08

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

As an aside, who's had a gutsfull of Guy Fawkes?
I was dead set against banning private sales, but after 2 weeks (and counting) of mindless fuckwits letting the Goddamn things off till 10 or 11 at night, I'm thoroughly over it.
Ain't it always the truth that a cretinous few spoil it for everyone.

I don't know why they have to sell them for a week or two prior to the event (other than for the sake of the retailer). Perhaps they should go on sale only two days before. Raising the age from 14 to 18 would be a good move in my books. I wouldn't want them banned alltogether though.

**Lou Girardin** · 7th November 2005, 13:11

I've been tempted to fight fire with fire.
Our place is higher than the worst offender's, so I could fire those big fuck-off loud buggers that explode after 30 or 40 metres right at his house.
Eat magnesium sucker!

**spudchucka** · 7th November 2005, 13:16

You need a good spud gun to launch them!

(Just kidding, I would never encourage the use of home made guns for any purpose)

Except for the occasional bit of fun.

**tracyprier** · 7th November 2005, 13:52

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

I've been tempted to fight fire with fire.
Our place is higher than the worst offender's, so I could fire those big fuck-off loud buggers that explode after 30 or 40 metres right at his house.
Eat magnesium sucker!

Yeah those big bastards are the worst! Our poor dog is f@#kin near shell-shocked. They remind me of being in New Delhi on Diwali... sounded like a mortar attack! they have REALLY serious fireworks over there. The sort of thing that would damn-near flip a car!

**parsley** · 7th November 2005, 14:40

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

If people don't want it banned they should try a little moderation and common sense.

Yeah right, because that usually works.

**Lou Girardin** · 7th November 2005, 16:01

Originally Posted by parsley

Yeah right, because that usually works.

Well it would prevent old farts like me from voting to ban it.
(Don't underestimate the power of baby boomers)

**WRT** · 8th November 2005, 15:03

Originally Posted by spudchucka

You need a good spud gun to launch them!

(Just kidding, I would never encourage the use of home made guns for any purpose)

So where do you get professionally made ones from?

Watched a guy down at Whangapoa one night launching spuds with glowsticks shoved thru them. That looked pretty cool . . .

**thehollowmen** · 8th November 2005, 21:24

weeee I like splodeys

**Wolf** · 9th November 2005, 15:35

Originally Posted by MacD

For the same reason that ACC pays for guys who do stupid shit on bikes...

...but that's OK I guess?

I've paid ACC a large sum of money from my motorcycle registrations over the years. And this guy, he had a "Fucking about with fireworks like a dumb cunt" registration and paid a massive fee to ACC as part of it? I think not.

Like all of us, his employer pays ACC and ACC levies come out of his wages but, as that's not enough for the greedy bastards, those of us who want to risk our lives and limbs in cages and on bikes have to pay extra - if he want's to fuck about with explosives, fine (I've done so myself in the past) but he should have to ante up the moola for the consequences, not have it covered by the rest of the taxpaying community.

Fuck him.

**Postie** · 9th November 2005, 15:39

they should have made the dickhead swim rather then waste hundreds on a helicopter. I think they should just ban fire works, there all shit now anyway, if you want decent fireworks then just go to a free firework show, its better and its free.....

**Wolf** · 9th November 2005, 15:54

The modern fireworks are shit - didn't bother buying any this year after the crap we bought previous years.

I miss the double-happys and Mighty Cannons and the rockets - legislated out of private ownership thanks to retards doing the sort of things Mr Girardin is complaining about people doing today - acting like dicks, being inconsiderate and downright dangerously negligent.

This year we got subjected to a couple of weeks of random bangs and whistles and got to see kids running around in the grounds of a nearby school holding those long skinny fireworks that fire a series of magnesium spurts in their hands and pointing them into (and throwing them into) a bushclad gully beside the school - we were expecting to see the trees go up in flames.

If all fireworks are banned, it will be due to the actions of such morons.

I used to love Guy Fawkes night - when most people at least waited for the night and you got decent fireworks.

**Lou Girardin** · 9th November 2005, 16:00

Eggsactly. There's no sense of anticipation now. Not when you let any and all of them off for two weeks before.
We were restricted to bangers bought out of pocket money before the 5th. Then we champed at the bit for it to get dark enough to let the rockets off.

**ManDownUnder** · 9th November 2005, 16:07

Originally Posted by Wolf

The modern fireworks are shit - didn't bother buying any this year after the crap we bought previous years.

I miss the double-happys and Mighty Cannons and the rockets - legislated out of private ownership thanks to retards doing the sort of things Mr Girardin is complaining about people doing today - acting like dicks, being inconsiderate and downright dangerously negligent.

This year we got subjected to a couple of weeks of random bangs and whistles and got to see kids running around in the grounds of a nearby school holding those long skinny fireworks that fire a series of magnesium spurts in their hands and pointing them into (and throwing them into) a bushclad gully beside the school - we were expecting to see the trees go up in flames.

If all fireworks are banned, it will be due to the actions of such morons.

I used to love Guy Fawkes night - when most people at least waited for the night and you got decent fireworks.

Good call - nothing quite so satisfying as a double happy (poha) going off in a fresh cow pat....

..sssssss POWLAT!

Awesome fun. light the fuse and run like hell (or just hold up an old oilskin)

**Wolf** · 9th November 2005, 18:17

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

Eggsactly. There's no sense of anticipation now. Not when you let any and all of them off for two weeks before.
We were restricted to bangers bought out of pocket money before the 5th. Then we champed at the bit for it to get dark enough to let the rockets off.

Shut up! I'm feeling old enough as it is.