Fireworks: quieter this year...?

Wertz · 09-10-2007 08:14PM #1

Just wondering if it's been as quiet around the country this year as it has been in my little corner of it.
It's only been the last night or two that I've heard any sort of sustained volleys of gunpowder being set off....other years it would have been pretty solid by now and going sporadically since mid-september. Even the first black cats and screamers were late this year.
So is it quiet round your way? Or worse than usual?

Poll incoming...

Tha Gopher · 09-10-2007 08:35PM

Ive always wondered why they arent imported/sold year round, the skangs would buy them.

Maybe the importers think theyd spend all their drug money on them and drugs earn them more profit.

Pighead · 09-10-2007 08:37PM

Less fireworks around Pigheads way as well which is bloody great. Shame about the increase in guns being fired though. Still, you can't have everything.

GhostInTheRuins · 09-10-2007 08:38PM

A lot less around my way too, actually haven't heard any yet.

MrJoeSoap · 09-10-2007 08:41PM

Definitely quieter here, or maybe its just early.

Haha, literally as I typed that last sentence one went off.

philcsl · 09-10-2007 08:43PM

Loads around my way for the last couple of weeks, there are kids as young as 6 or 7 lighting bangers and throwing them in gardens, it says a lot about the responsible parents...

Seeing as I live in Crumlin a lot of the bangs might just be gunshots!!

Krieg · 09-10-2007 09:18PM

Calm before the storm?

But yeah its very quiet this year

Jello · 09-10-2007 09:33PM

Definitely quiter around my neck of the woods this year. I remember thinking the same last year actually and then on Haloween night it was like Baghdad.

biko · 09-10-2007 09:40PM

Galway city, not a peep so far

WindSock · 09-10-2007 09:41PM

Yes it is quieter now that you mention it. The dog has not yet taken his place behind the telly. I did see some tracksuits pushing a trolley full of bonfire fodder earlier though.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 09-10-2007 09:42PM

Surprisingly few here too... though I reckon they'll start kicking off eventually.
I wonder is there some supply issue.

GhostInTheRuins · 09-10-2007 09:45PM

boreds wrote:

Yes it is quieter now that you mention it. The dog has not yet taken his place behind the telly. I did see some tracksuits pushing a trolley full of bonfire fodder earlier though.

You just reminded me of an old dog we had years ago. Every year when it came close to halloween we had to keep her in the shed incase she ran away when she heard the fireworks. She's run down the fields at the back of the house and mightn't return for a few days

Jesus Wept · 09-10-2007 09:48PM

Too earlier to say, have seen a couple of small bonfires already. :mad:

Sonnenblumen · 09-10-2007 09:52PM

There's plenty and on timers!

Zapp Brannigan · 09-10-2007 10:27PM

All's quiet around my area too. I like it!

Dord · 09-10-2007 10:32PM

I've only heard one or two and they were just bangers.

crosstownk · 09-10-2007 10:39PM

I've heard one or two in the distance - but nothing like previous years. I wonder why.............

Jack Sheehan · 09-10-2007 10:42PM

I think I've heard only one or two. I noticed myself and was going to make a similar thread actually.

Brian017 · 09-10-2007 10:43PM

Definately quieter round here too. They're usually left, right and centre by now.

JohnnyStones · 09-10-2007 10:43PM

this is just the calm before the storm!!

give it a week or so and it'll be like Iraq, round my way anyways!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

F**KING HATE THOSE BANGERS:mad:

leninbenjamin · 09-10-2007 10:45PM

in my part of the city it's usually pretty quiet in the run up. the kids save 'em up for the big day... there have been a few though, Biko lies!!!

Dun laoire · 09-10-2007 10:46PM

Maybe people are copping on. I've never have and never ever ever ever ever will buy fireworks ever. Why spend money on a sh1t load of sh1t fireworks when i can just sit back and watch the local skanks Deco, Anto and Paddo who purchased them with their hard earned (HAHA) cash for free. The only difference is i dont get to light them! So myself and the 3 yokels get the very same pleasure except my hands are nice and warm tucked into the pockets of my Lonsdale huddy.

TheMilkyPirate · 09-10-2007 10:47PM

crosstownk wrote:

I've heard one or two in the distance - but nothing like previous years. I wonder why.............

Because it's only the 9th of october.. Wait till a week leading up to and halloween itself, That's when it gets loud down here anyway. When everybody has been up north

10-10-2007 01:53AM

Here are the rules for when you can sell fireworks in the UK

The periods where selling fireworks without a licence is permitted are: November 5th, from 15th October and ending on 10th November; New Year, from 26th December and ending on the 31st December; Chinese New Year, the first day and the three days immediately preceding it; and on the day of Diwali and the three days immediately preceding it.

Blowfish · 10-10-2007 02:04AM

hmm, odd, it's actually busier around my area than usual. They've been going for weeks.

meglome · 10-10-2007 02:15AM

It really is much quieter than usual. Normally there is a build up but so far I haven't heard a single firework.

S.I.R · 10-10-2007 10:41AM

its a calm before the storm im got a stock pile of every differant firework you can buy ( up north

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i cant wait for holloween.

MooseJam · 10-10-2007 11:21AM

yea it's been very quiet, a bit dissapointing

Wertz · 10-10-2007 12:18PM

Nice one folks, my market research project is now complete.
I'm off out to jonesboro market the weekend to buy a grand's worth and head off down to flog them in Dublin suburbs for fat profit.
Thanks for the input.

*waves Sparkler*

Seriously, though, as far as I can make out it's definitely a supply issue, but more from the point that the guys selling them are being more cautious now and aren't selling for as long in the run up to halloween. Since fireworks seem to be in short supply, the punter is buying what they can and saving them...the phenomenon of other years in our area where you'd have some unscrupulous scum selling bangers to kids from the boot of their car seems to have fallen off.
Probably be loud as all hell for the 2-3 days around the 31st....thank f*ck I won't be around to suffer it...

mike65 · 10-10-2007 12:47PM

Some going off but only sporadicaly. Some nights nothing at all so yes queiter, either the Power That Be are making some progress or the skangers are stockpiling them for a night of Shock and Awe.

Mike.

juke · 10-10-2007 01:11PM

Started with a vengance round my way last night - about 1 hour after your thread started, OP....i'm pointing the finger of blame!:rolleyes:

Ah well, the peace was good while it lasted.......

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