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Flubflow · 22-10-2004, 16:29

Also, I think you only have to see or experience the horrific results of a firework accident just once to see why they really should be banned outright. Too many people think it won't happen to them. You can reduce your risk significantly by following the rules but, as you'd expect with any chemical reaction in a man-made package, it is sometimes completely beyond your control and innocent people who have nothing to do with your party get very badly hurt.
When you send your kids to school and they do chemistry then, as you'd expect, even the most slighty reactive experiments require goggles etc and/or a fume cupboard yet we allow people to buy and set off explosive chemicals a few yards away in the back garden with no real legal requirement for any protection whatsoever.
The widespread availabilty of dodgy chav fireworks make the situation worse.

22-10-2004, 16:29	#27
Flubflow Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Teesside Posts: 1,566	Re: 2004 firework thread Also, I think you only have to see or experience the horrific results of a firework accident just once to see why they really should be banned outright. Too many people think it won't happen to them. You can reduce your risk significantly by following the rules but, as you'd expect with any chemical reaction in a man-made package, it is sometimes completely beyond your control and innocent people who have nothing to do with your party get very badly hurt. When you send your kids to school and they do chemistry then, as you'd expect, even the most slighty reactive experiments require goggles etc and/or a fume cupboard yet we allow people to buy and set off explosive chemicals a few yards away in the back garden with no real legal requirement for any protection whatsoever. The widespread availabilty of dodgy chav fireworks make the situation worse.