KF

fastbloke...
Just wanting some clarity here: as I understood it there are 4 categories:
1) Indoor
2) Garden
3) display (25 metre clearance)
4) Restricted (professional)
Were the police claiming that you had cat 4 fireworks, or are cat 3 also not for pleb consumption?
Cheers
KF.

EDIT: just found this:
http://www.fireworksafety.co.uk/cat3.htm
It would appear that fireworks not marked with 'Complies with BS7114 Part 2 1988' are suitable for use only by professionals.

[Edited by KF - 11/5/2001 1:30:36 AM]

SCOOP

Hi,
Just wondered if anybody knows where I can get some MEGA FIREWORKS from.

Ideally F*CK OFF BIG ONES, but not too expensive.

Cheers

SCOOP

Huxley

Bracknell fireworks in bullbrook area of B/nell we get ours from there every year and they get bigger and bigger !! and noiser,
not bad prices to


Huxley

Luke

Scoop ,sounds like youve got a plan........

Bought a "Atomic Bomb" in prague many moons ago. You had to put it 4-5 feet in the ground. Anyway..... Caused a lot of damage !!!!

SCOOP

Luke, got it in one.

I`m on a mission "Atomic Bomb" sounds good!

They say revenge is sweet, ha-ha,

Cheers
SCOOP

IWatkins

SCOOP,

Up in the wilds here, we have like farmers wholesalers (MSF is our chain). They tend to stock huge collections.

I usually stock up at this time of year with several choice air defence systems. Got my Patriots, the odd Rapier. Also for p*ssing of the neighbours, got my Scuds, got some Tridents etc.

Seriously, you walk out of this place with some serious armoury for not silly money. Think I spent £80 last year for our local firework display (the neighbours and a few beers) and still had some serious stuff left for New Years Eve.

(Anyone local to me, get down to MSF in Ledbury, as they have the largest stock I can find).

Cheers

Ian

SCOOP

Ian,thanks for the info mate,
As it happens I`ve got to go to Ledbury in the morning so will deffo call in at MSF and see what they`ve got

Cheers
SCOOP

IWatkins

SCOOP,

All the fireworks are kept either at the tills or the big stuff is kept in the warehouse. Just go to the till, grab a leaflet and then pick and choose from there. The small stuff they will bag up for you there and then. The big stuff you have to go around to the warehouse with a ticket the till people give you.

The big stuff comes out of an armoured bunker. You get lots of klaxon noises and rotating red lights as the big bunker door swings open. They then pass out your major fireworks and you get a military escort out of Ledbury with air cover.

The last paragraph is a fabrication.

Cheers

Ian

Luke

Scoop

I'm talking a hell of a lot of damage !!! it cost me about $25.00

I would never ever do it again....... It was horrific. The thing was about the size of a small bookshelf speaker.

I was still in a panic the next day.

SCOOP

LOL @ Ian

Thanks for the suggestions guys

SCOOP

Squizz

Ian, I think you'll find MSF are now called Countrywide Farmers...

Karen works for them!

ian_sadler

Nice thread.

Where should I look in the Bucks area?

Ta

Ian

IWatkins

Squizz,

Don't worry, Tina told me off for calling them MSF. But, hey, they will always be called MSF to me.

Whoa, hang on, Karen works for them ? Staff discount ?

Cheers

Ian

Richard Askew

.....if Karen works for em how about getting me some of them nice green Hunter wellies - you know the ones with the straps on the side so you can tie the sheeps legs on to...... ooooh too much info I'll get me coat ( Barbour waxed jacket of course )

Beemer_Deano

The bigger branches of Asda are stocking these huge display fireworks - one that caught my eye is about the size of a thermos flask but it's about £25!!

All da best,

Dean

fast bloke

The firework you really want is called a 'bad boy bazooka'. Looks like a large military mortar tube. You get shells about 10 inches long and 4 inches wide. You light the fuse, drop the shell in the tube and run like ****. you hear a reasonable size bang and then nothing happens for about 10 seconds. just when you believe it isn't working the sky lights up, your eardrums dissolve and every car alarm within a mile goes off.
We had 10 of these on Wednesday - cost about a fiver a shell.

fast bloke

now I can give you perfect 20:20 hindsight advice. just returned from a 90 minute grilling from the fuzz. The fireworks above are catagory 3. Ordinary scum like me shouln't be able to get their mucky paws in them. Apparently only special scum are allowed these. I have been reliably informed they can kill people.


...... The first person they will kill this year is the piece of **** who sold them to me. I've never been arrested before. I am not a happy camper....... some ****** is going to need lots and lots of immodium...

Neil Smalley

Sorry FB m8 but that's really funny(well I think it is anyway).

Did they charge you with anything?
Who dobbed you in?

Could only happen to a muppet

scooby nutter

Had some great fun a few years back.
Went to gun shop and bought 10 paintball mines!remove from black tube and discard paint.I put the actual mine in a vice and gently compressed it for added power!
Connect the two wires from the mine to a very long length of speaker wire.Put your mine in desired location and connect wires from speaker cable to small 9volt battery.

KKKKKAAAAABBBBBOOOOMMMMM.
Those things were really powerfull and now i think they are classed as high explosives and the shop wont sell them.
At £1 each they were really good fun.

Ah well, the good old days

fast bloke

Neil - They didn't really arrest me. It was more 'helping police with enquiries - or else'. Given the amount of rioting that goes on in Belfast I can see why they would want these off the streets. They wanted to find the seller. I bought them in a market, so didn't know exactly who the seller was. They thought I was being awkward. I don't think anyone dobbed be in. They just looked for the big patches of scorched earth

KF - Not entirely sure about the catagories, as I hadn't heard of them before Friday. Apparently these chappies are only supposed to be available to licenced pyrotechnicians....

Anyway - Anyone know how to get a licence for next year?

KF

fastbloke...
it all seems a bit gray to me. It looks as though you are a "professional" if you can show that you use them in film / theatre.
There is a whole bbs dedicated to fireworks, but it looks a little quiet by Scoobynet standards.
KF.

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