Bonfires..should they be allowed?

willmunny1990 · 09-09-2011 5:26pm #1

With Halloween on its way i see people in my town already collecting for bonfires..problem is there not allowed anymore over a couple of incidents over the previous years.

There was a serious amount of trouble here one year between revelers and the guards and since then bonfires have been banned.Im in favour of the ban because i keep animals and there terrified of them and all the fireworks,not to mention if a dog or cat gets out weve all heard what some cruel people do.

Also pissed up people falling around a massive fire is a disaster waiting to happen and im sure everone has stories about accidents that have happened.My question is should they be left go ahead,are they worth the hastle and drain on the police,fire brigade etc...

Stinicker · 09-09-2011 5:28pm

No, we must keep our Co2 emissions down, won't someone think of the polar bears?

Temptamperu · 09-09-2011 5:28pm

Boo!!! down with thousands of years of tradition because you have a cat :rolleyes:

Biggins · 09-09-2011 5:29pm

Only if we can burn useless TD's!

ItsAWindUp · 09-09-2011 5:31pm

They're fine if they're well organised and policed, otherwise no.

CrazyRabbit · 09-09-2011 5:31pm

Biggins wrote: »

Only if we can burn useless TD's!

Are there any useful ones?

Mike 1972 · 09-09-2011 5:31pm

^Ming ?

willmunny1990 wrote: »

Also pissed up people falling around a massive fire is a darwin waiting to happen..

FYP

Temptamperu wrote: »

thousands of years of tradition

If thats the only argument for the defence then yes ban them to fu©k

Temptamperu · 09-09-2011 5:32pm

Mike 1972 wrote: »

If thats the only argument for the defence then yes ban them to fuk

But then whats going to scare of the ghosts and the devils

Biggins · 09-09-2011 5:32pm

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Are there any useful ones?

I live in hope!

Its a lovely place. lol.

willmunny1990 · 09-09-2011 5:33pm

ItsAWindUp wrote: »

They're fine if they're well organised and policed, otherwise no.

There impossible to police at times and i dont think its worth the burden to the police

Sky King · 09-09-2011 5:33pm

Or the vanities or regular?

Dangerous Man · 09-09-2011 5:35pm

Absolutely ban them. No good ever comes of them.

Yitzhak Rabin · 09-09-2011 5:37pm

blast them with petrol

Sky King · 09-09-2011 5:38pm

Too right!

Down with bonfires! Burn them all! Oh wait....

RichieC · 09-09-2011 5:39pm

they were brilliant fun as a kid so obviously the stuffy old get I am now wants then done away with. :pac:

Temptamperu · 09-09-2011 5:39pm

Jaysus you would swear it was a year round problem the way yee all go on. Its a bit of crack for the kids.

Wont somebody think of the children?

Yakult · 09-09-2011 5:41pm

How are your animals terrified of bonfires? Do they attend it?

Leave them I say. If they don't want trouble maybe the AGS should monitor them and stop 13 yo kids from getting pissed and throwing fireworks in them and animals.

Mike 1972 · 09-09-2011 5:43pm

Any minute Keith will be along.... Id better get the popcorn ready :pac:

willmunny1990 · 09-09-2011 5:44pm

Yakult wrote: »

How are your animals terrified of bonfires? Do they attend it?

i live very near to where they had them,there basicaly right outside my back garden and my dogs are out my back all the time.

Anita Blow · 09-09-2011 5:45pm

I don't agree with it and even though I'm not forced to attend any, I don't want anybody enjoying anything that I don't agree with.

Sky King · 09-09-2011 5:46pm

Hang on, are we talking about crazy-ass haloween / 12th july style mounds of hundreds of blazing pallets?

Or are we talking about and including those little beach campfires that you use to warm your bones at and stare into, watching the evolving flickering dancing shapes caressing the charred flotsam through the blackened tunnel of night-time when you're off your head camping at the beach?

They are two very different animals.

charlemont · 09-09-2011 5:47pm

Temptamperu wrote: »

Boo!!! down with thousands of years of tradition because you have a cat :rolleyes:

OP is a killjoy.
True, Its only one bloody night. Let them burn.

Biggins · 09-09-2011 5:48pm

Temptamperu wrote: »

...Wont somebody think of the children?

Garry Glitter agrees with you!

charlemont · 09-09-2011 5:56pm

Ha, Its Clonmel you are on about, Its got some record of serious assaults etc on Halloween night, Kelly's field always has a good bit of violent entertainment going on.

FlutterinBantam · 09-09-2011 5:58pm

willmunny1990 wrote: »

With Halloween on its way i see people in my town already collecting for bonfires..problem is there not allowed anymore over a couple of incidents over the previous years.

There was a serious amount of trouble here one year between revelers and the guards and since then bonfires have been banned.Im in favour of the ban because i keep animals and there terrified of them and all the fireworks,not to mention if a dog or cat gets out weve all heard what some cruel people do.

Also pissed up people falling around a massive fire is a disaster waiting to happen and im sure everone has stories about accidents that have happened.My question is should they be left go ahead,are they worth the hastle and drain on the police,fire brigade etc...

Let the gimps who set them up,pay for the clean up,otherwise fcuk off- no bonfire.

Why should the taxpayer clean up after these idiots.?

willmunny1990 · 09-09-2011 5:59pm

charlemont wrote: »

Ha, Its Clonmel you are on about, Its got some record of serious assaults etc on Halloween night, Kelly's field always has a good bit of violent entertainment going on.

yeah thats it!!if someone didnt get beaten,stabbed or burnt itd be a miracle!

thats why they should be banned im sure Clonmel isnt the only town that has trouble on bonfire night.

Archeron · 09-09-2011 6:03pm

But if we ban bonfires, where will we burn our witches? Slow baking them in the oven just doesnt have the same sense of community spirit.

KeithAFC · 09-09-2011 6:16pm

Keep them. Another excuse to burn stuff.

Thatnastyboy · 09-09-2011 6:22pm

If they did ban them,

And the Gardai and Fire service went around flat out confiscating old pallets & couches and dousing them with water,

The same people would be on here complaining about why the Guards werent at their front door stopping bored idiots from shoving bags of dog sh!t and bangers through their letterbox.

Impossible to stop all bonfires, it would be a pointless exercise.

We should ban animal cruelty, it would stop the attacks on cats & dogs at halloween wouldn't it? :rolleyes:

James__10 · 09-09-2011 6:23pm

Is bonfire night not on the 29th June?

charlemont · 09-09-2011 6:26pm

James__10 wrote: »

Is bonfire night not on the 29th June?

Thats in Cork, Ya thick...., Suspiciously close to the 12th too, No let Clonmel keep its bonfires that way scum can wipe out scum so we all win.:D

James__10 · 09-09-2011 6:28pm

Thats when we have our bonfires up here in Dundalk, Ya mongo!

charlemont · 09-09-2011 6:43pm

James__10 wrote: »

Thats when we have our bonfires up here in Dundalk, Ya mongo!

I learn something new everyday, So no bonfire on Halloween in Dundalk so ?

GarIT · 09-09-2011 6:47pm

Are they not illegal already, buring things in a public place and even burning public property ect? I suppose there ok if there done properly though. I was at one last year where it was in a church carpark and there was a gaurd there for the majority of the time, as well as security fences. It was arranged by the church, I think. But then there was one nearer my house arranged by teenagers (around my own age btw), in a schools football pitch with no fences or security and I don't think that sort of thing should happen.

Bonfires..should they be allowed?

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