Big bang!

Nov 3 2009 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WITH the Christmas adverts coming thick and fast on TV it must be nearly Bonfire night again!

holly isn’t a fan: “It’s almost here again – are you ready for it?

Fireworks being thrown all over the place without a thought for man nor beast.

Enormous bangs outside your window scaring one half to death ... not to mention our animals who can’t understand why they aren’t allowed out all of a sudden.

Extra staff put on Accident and Emergency for the idiots who fool around with the fireworks (don’t get sick, you’ll have a very long wait).

It all goes on and on for days and days.

Unless an organised venue, they should be banned.”

StephB isn’t happy about the way it’s policed either: “And to the best of my knowledge it was – and still is – illegal! But then so are so many things which also get no law enforcement attention.

Yet the council employs legislation to hound people for putting their kids down for the wrong school, putting garden rubbish into wheeled bins. Causing an explosion? Ah, ‘tis but the kids letting off steam.’”

In_The_Flesh, slightly off kilter, interjected: “They are antisocial and dangerous. I wonder if, like, the NHS was musing about whether or not to treat dangerous criminals like mmm ... smokers!

“They might also refuse treatment to idiots who get kicks from ‘big bangs’ and injuries.”

StephB retorted: “Unlike smokers, a large proportion of those injured will be by the stupid action of others or by those too young to have such dangerous articles. And who is to blame? The parents who let them ‘play’ with such toys or have no idea what their kids are up to? As for the vandals who throw fireworks as a sick joke, they should be prosecuted for assault. But then, it just adds to the long list of broken laws being ignored, and not followed up.”

markmyword49 doesn’t need displays when Huddersfield provides it’s own perfect natural viewing platform: “That’s because we don’t need to spend on what we can get for free. I can watch all the expensive fireworks lighting up the sky across the valley in Golcar and Slaithwaite from my eyrie.”