Bonfire stock piles

handlemaster

http://m.rte.ie/news/2015/1016/735197-bonfire/


Report it before it becomes an issue

jeffk

handlemaster wrote: »

http://m.rte.ie/news/2015/1016/735197-bonfire/


Report it before it becomes an issue

Why would you report it?

Pat Dunne

jeffk wrote: »

Why would you report it?

Perhaps, if its right beside your home!

L1011

jeffk wrote: »

Why would you report it?

Not wanting to breath in tyre fumes and encourage scrotes to continue with anti-social behaviour, perhaps.

Zaph

Not wanting people to get seriously injured or killed would probably be the best reason. Bonfires can collapse, and if that happens they don't even have to be lit to injure or kill someone. There's also the issue of not knowing what's actually in the bonfire. If something explosive is inadvertently buried in the pile the consequences could be appalling. Plus there's also the fact that they're bloody stupid, pointless things. I could never see the attraction for standing around with a bunch of other people watching a big pile of crap burn. It loses its novelty value pretty quickly.

ThisRegard

jeffk wrote: »

Why would you report it?

Why wouldn't you? Although maybe we could do with more of those speed vans on the M/N3 you have a thing for and use that money to pay for all the damage they do to public property and to fund the clean up costs. You'll be OK with that?

The Muppet

Yeah Don't know how we managed to survive before people could report every little thing to one agency or another. Perhaps supervising and advising kids where and how to build their bonfires safely would be a better approach.

jeffk

Seems everyone didn’t have a childhood and went straight to responsible adulthood.

I had them as a child and went collecting and then all the different fires, people loved you knocking as they got rid of old furniture etc. Nobody I know got killed or injured at them.

Now there was people doing stupid things (like throwing aerosol cans into them), but one muppet doesn’t reflect on everyone.

The council never managed to stop them, so why don’t they set up one on a designated area away from house, grass etc that will cause minimal damage. This will eventually stop most people lighting them.

jeffk

Seems everyone didn’t have a childhood and went straight to responsible adulthood.

I had them as a child and went collecting and then all the different fires, people loved you knocking as they got rid of old furniture etc. Nobody I know got killed or injured at them.

Now there was people doing stupid things (like throwing aerosol cans into them), but one muppet doesn’t reflect on everyone.

The council never managed to stop them, so why don’t they set up one on a designated area away from house, grass etc that will cause minimal damage. This will eventually stop most people lighting them.

eviltwin

The Muppet wrote: »

Yeah Don't know how we managed to survive before people could report every little thing to one agency or another. Perhaps supervising and advising kids where and how to build their bonfires safely would be a better approach.

Good luck with that,, last year it took weeks for our local pitch to be cleared of debris, its a pitch used by football and gaa teams and it was destroyed. I'm not a kill joy, I don't object to organised fires in safe and suitable places but most kids are not going to care where they put their fires. It looks disgusting to see adults too bringing bags of rubbish, old chairs and beds and other crap on them.

jeffk

eviltwin wrote: »

Good luck with that,, last year it took weeks for our local pitch to be cleared of debris, its a pitch used by football and gaa teams and it was destroyed. I'm not a kill joy, I don't object to organised fires in safe and suitable places but most kids are not going to care where they put their fires. It looks disgusting to see adults too bringing bags of rubbish, old chairs and beds and other crap on them.

Wrecking a pitch for any sport isn't right, that's just using the occasion as an excuse for vandalism

The Muppet

eviltwin wrote: »

Good luck with that,, last year it took weeks for our local pitch to be cleared of debris, its a pitch used by football and gaa teams and it was destroyed. I'm not a kill joy, I don't object to organised fires in safe and suitable places but most kids are not going to care where they put their fires. It looks disgusting to see adults too bringing bags of rubbish, old chairs and beds and other crap on them.

Each to their own , I just would not be into reporting Kids building bonfires when I did it myself as a child as I imagine most adults have.

Did anyone offer the kids an alternative safe and appropriate location to build their bonfire when they saw it being built?

eviltwin

There isn't really any area here that would be safe, everywhere is residential, parkland or its private property. I've told the parents of the one kids I know and was told to F off so that is the mentality.

Zaph

OK folks, let's not make this personal by getting in digs at one another. I'm on strong painkillers and as a result I'm just as liable to ban someone by mistake as I am to issue a card. Thanks.

beer enigma

There's no exemption here is there ? If I light a bonfire in the garden I can be done, I'm presuming the same is for unorganised bonfires

ThisRegard

jeffk wrote: »

Seems everyone didn’t have a childhood and went straight to responsible adulthood.

We had massive ones all over the place. Doesn't make it right.

Council organised ones I've no issues with, but have a problem with them appearing and wrecking every spare bit of green going.

daymobrew

I don't see the phone number to report bonfires on Fingal's web site but there is a page mentioning the impact of bonfires.

When we make staff available to clean up after bonfires and reinstate open spaces, they can’t carry out normal maintenance duties.