Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Another user here who has seen kids letting off fireworks. No real issue as long as everyone treats them with care, compared to the UK where fireworks are kept behind a counter and you have to be over 16? or is it 18? to buy them. doesn't really work though......the week leading up to Guy Fawkes day was like going to school in Bagdad..........you'd be playing football in the playground, here the "weeee" and everyone would have to hit the deck to avoid the flying rockets, bangers been throwing in classrooms....not a good time for pets Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 In most of Aus they are completely illegal (regardless of age) and as you can see from some of the comments on here from those well indoctrinated into our amazing nanny state you'd almost be branded a child abuser for letting a kid near one! Link to post Share on other sites
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RobBright 35 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Another user here who has seen kids letting off fireworks. No real issue as long as everyone treats them with care, compared to the UK where fireworks are kept behind a counter and you have to be over 16? or is it 18? to buy them. doesn't really work though......the week leading up to Guy Fawkes day was like going to school in Bagdad..........you'd be playing football in the playground, here the "weeee" and everyone would have to hit the deck to avoid the flying rockets, bangers been throwing in classrooms....not a good time for pets Good old safe Scotland eh? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 yeah......scottish kids could advise the army on their RPG aiming Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 mmmm I was a defalt leader (cos me been 10) and the others were 8 and we used to light fireworks during the day. We carried our own matches. Ended up with a few blood blisters on our fingers. We made rocket launchers, rocket propelled miniture cars, shot them towards eachother on the ground, all in daylight. Did any of the adults come to stop us? No. Thank god for growing up in Japan at that time. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 haha.....reminds me of my mate, he was a bit of a pyro and always constructing some sort of fire and/or explosive. He used to take the black powder out of his dad's shotgun shells and make various explosions.....this one time he had emptied the cartridge and was walking along the street shaking it.....next thing a loud crack, one side of his face was all red, a very high pitched noise was heard by everyone and my other mate hit the deck shouting he'd been shot!! They had forgotten about the initial explosive charge that sets the big one off and what came out was the plunger that usually pushes all the ball bearings out of the cartridge....was really funny at the time (I wasn't in the firing line of course) Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 lol. I had a bit more brain .. Was very careful with them. It was a common accident amongst japanese kids to peel out powder from fireworks and collect them ... lots of idiots lost their eyes poking powder in a glass bottle . Actually made a shotgun myself .. that was a bit too much since firearms are a big no no. The most stupid thing that happened to me was, I was playing with myself tryingto improve on the technique of lighting up a chinese cracker (very short fuse) and throwing it .. one was so quick I really had to flick it away ... ended up on the road and a police car ran over it. He was pretty red faced .. thought it was intentional. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 playing with yourself in public is a big no-no!! Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 You can wee in public of course Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 oh, oh ..Floydian slip. playing with myself lol . playing by myself . Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 we used to hold penny bungers in our fingers and let them off. and blow up letter boxes with tuppeny bungers. fun times. Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I remember trying to make a model rocket explode by replacing the parachute with a bag of gasoline. Disappointingly, it merely burned. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I remember trying to parachute of my dad's garage roof with a bin bag and almost break my legs! Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Tubby, you have art but no brains Link to post Share on other sites
gareth_oau 2 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 When it comes to Fireworks in Oz, I don't think its a Nanny State mentality, I believe its managing a very high risk when you could be combining alcohol, fireworks and a very dry bush, the possible outcome could be horrendous. Here's a youtube of a market in Mexico where there are 300 stalls selling fireworks to the public http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgbe9Nx-fGU Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 When it comes to Fireworks in Oz, I don't think its a Nanny State mentality, I believe its managing a very high risk when you could be combining alcohol, fireworks and a very dry bush, the possible outcome could be horrendous. Which is basically the definition of a nanny state. Where goverrnments impose laws to protect us from ourselves. And many Aussies like yourself believe it's a good thing because you've been so successfully indoctrinated into that way of thinking. Personally I hate it and believe it's gone way too far in Aus. No one seems to ever accept that sometimes shit happens and that's just life. No in Aus we always need someone to blame and crucify and attempt to sue the hell out of them when anything goes wrong. And we seem to have convinced ourselves that the only way to deal with anything is to create more and more draconian laws that restrict our personal freedom to choose for ourselves what we deem to be acceptable risk. Link to post Share on other sites
gareth_oau 2 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 ahh, so any country in the world that has seat belts laws is a nanny state? I am more than happy for the idiots out there to kill themselves off. the problem is that the idiots tend to kill more than themselves and this is what the laws are for. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I can accept collateral damage. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I think the nanny state isn't to protect us from ourselves but from those who act inappropriately. Sadly though, I think it makes stupid people stupider... Link to post Share on other sites
shadowtec 0 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 We need to thin the herd once in a while Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 We need to thin the herd once in a while Pour some chlorine in the gene pool...? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
surfarthur 22 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 That might do the trick Mamabear Link to post Share on other sites
atomicchicken 0 Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Heres another entrant for the Darwin awards, possibly the same person who let off the firecrackers round my kids decided to cook last night at 1am drunk and set off the fire alarm. Let's say that everyone else in the building was not impressed, having to wait 2 hours for the fire brigade to arrive to reset the alarm. Link to post Share on other sites
shadowtec 0 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 We need to thin the herd once in a while Pour some chlorine in the gene pool...? With some people I think there was a two for one sale at the chromosome shop. Link to post Share on other sites
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