blockmonke@fsmail.net

FFS I am sure as a teenager they were only on sale a week prior to November the 5th. Yet I have seen 2 phone boxes blown up already since the start of October and tonight I witnessed some chavs toss a firework in the path of an oncoming car.
I only hope these chavs miscalculate the time of the fuse and blow themselves up.

fatherpierre

They were on sale at every corner shop ages before the 5th Nov when I was a lad.

Air bomb repeaters were my personal favourite

blockmonke@fsmail.net

I loved air bombs too ear splitting fun. However fireworks seem to be readily available to easily these days and are being used for more sinister reasons.

fatherpierre

Well, I remember aiming rockets from milk bottles at *ahem* people leaving pubs when drunk

They must be much harder to get hold of now as only licensed outlets can sell them?

Brendan Hughes

What's a phone box?

TopBanana

We once got our hands on an amazing batch of air bombs. One blew a snowman to bits, and two were detonated under the a motorway bridge. The traffic above stopped! We also used to set miniature rockets off on slides.

blockmonke@fsmail.net

Public telephones that BT are obliged to keep running. And rather than passing the cost of vandalism on to shareholders its going to cost bill payers

powerman1

heres a clue
YouTube - Fireworks in a phonebox

fatherpierre

Another reason not to have a BT line.

Odds on

Without looking at the link, I bet its something shown on the telly a month or so ago. My first thoughts were "Bloody hell, I bet everyone copies that"

Odds on

Ok, not the same one. They managed to blow the windows out on the one shown of tv.

Sonic'

We had a telegraph pole ripped down, and laid across the road, covered in petrol and torched just down the road from here, great as no cars could get past and as it was on fire no one could move it either

The kids (probably same ******* as above) had built their bonfire under an electricity pylon, doused it in petrol and lit it, the intial woof was a sight to see indeed as I dialled 999 to call the FB out to sort them out

jods

I love fireworks.

Used to have great fun sticking bangers into dog **** and legging it.

Purile I know - but it keeps me feeling young

Abdabz

A friend of mine held onto a banger too long and was blinded for a week after letting go half as second too late...
We had lots of banger fun... Eat my shot

boxst

Mmm .. I used to get the bangers from France when I was a child, little red sticks of dynamite.

Used to have great fun blowing things up -- but never did anything to destroy property (well, just my own anyway!).

These and (much!) larger ones:



Steve

wwp8

they are now throwing them into the streets

[Davey]

Its not the fireworks that are at fault, its the little ****s with them! The government has already 'banned' far to many good things because of the termoil of society, how about instead of bitching about kids making noise, throwing fireworks etc. we focus more on what we can do to stop kids from growing up in to such little **** bags.

Leslie

The authorities like chavs, they dont want too many bothering to vote! They aren't going to get bothered by the fireworks anyway.

Les

New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

I dislike the wholle "ban this, ban that approach" to a problem or detracting from the enjoyment of others just cause I dislike something personally, but I really do think fireworks should be limited to organised displays only.

This negates safety concerns, prevents them from falling into the hands of chavs and prevents a lot of inconvenience for most of us over quite an extended period (people let em off for about 2 weeks around here).

At the very least, the punishment for teenagers carrying what amounts to explosives around the streets should be much stiffer!

Better to prevent the problem in the first place though and limit them to displays.


Ns04

matttp1

iTrader: (2)

Was hoping they d have blown up the phone box already thats just down the street to me bad i know but when you have smack heads hanging around it day and night still theres time yet

Fuzz

Ahh, those red sticks of dynamite....
Plenty of them wrapped together with insulation tape and lobbed onto the cricket pitch makes quite a crater don't you know.

We were all young and stupid once.
Shame some of us don't grow out of it or at least learn from it.

Andy