Max, cut it out. Like pool fencing the fact is kids do and did get hurt or die or have permanent injuries – you were just lucky enough to not meet any.

Anti you too? You of course know it was really a feminist plot to get rid of any phallic shaped object out of the market place.[smile]

Now pool fencing makes less sense to me... you can have a whole ocean across the road unfenced but must even have screens on your windows leading out to pools areas. Last property I had there was a creek running through which was fine but the pool was dangerous, drives me nuts.

But anyway my dad owned a shop and every year before Guy Fawkes a big wooden crate would arrive from China, magic. But hey he also had an unfenced pool and we all survived.

Kids got hurt probably because parents got stupider..? Seriously if I am not trusted to supervise small children around a pool or with fireworks then no one else is allowed to be either. Oh except rich people, they never have fences around their flash pools so maybe their kids never drown… they’re probably allowed to import their own fireworks too.

I read not long ago that in England somewhere smokers are not allowed to be foster parents, oh my god – if you can’t trust them to smoke outside then how do you trust others not to hit the kids?

People are assumed stupid until proven otherwise and it’s never been proven otherwise.

Brock you ever empty a whole lot of crackers and make a copper pipe bomb… goodbye principal’s mailbox! See you can’t trust teens of any generation with powder. These days they’d probably put it under the principal.

I rather enjoyed Guy Fawkes night as a young'un.

Put me down for one of those who thinks banning it was unreasonable.

People have all kinds of dangerous hobbies. I've been known to enjoy abseiling. That involves ropes, hooks and cliffs. Perhaps not the safest activity, but it's a great deal of fun and I'd be pretty annoyed if I was told I couldn't do it because stupid people weren't doing it properly.

There will always be idiots around. I can see the logic in banning some of the larger, more incendiary fireworks, but banning all of them and scrapping Guy Fawkes? That always struck me as pretty unreasonable.

>>Since the banning craker night, crime has skyrocketed,simply because their is no activity apart from drinking that is allowed by our Courts.<<

What a toss you are!

So what about the other 364 nights of the year. Are you suggesting they to will be 'crime free' just because of the re-introduction of 'cracker night'?

Boy I wish some of you would preview the dribble you put on this site before posting it.

As for cracker night, as a 60's baby I grew up with it and loved every moment of it.

Bring it on I say!

fine, so long as licencing laws
governing the use of fireworks
provide for remedy now available,
within women's and men's jurisdictions.

Ah the memories of childhood.

Everytime Cracker Night comes around there is much brouhaha in the papers and different advocacy groups come out of the woodwork - namely the fireworks sellers vs animal rights groups and others.

The emphasis is not on danger to humans per se. The two main bones of contention are the effect on animals and hooliganism. The spate of blown up letterboxes and other pranks in the weeks after. It is also a busy time for the RSPCA, dogs and cats going missing and some suffering 'nervous breakdowns' for the evening.

It is one of those things we find hard to let go but like the banning of animal circuses we can adapt.

Look Maximillion,

As a child I suffered from those things. It scared me, it startled me, it made me cry and avoid certain places, such as parties and the streets on certain days. Fortunately I did not hear those for quite some years now.

However, I do not support banning it: Today the PC brigade bans your thing - tomorrow they will ban mine, so I better be willing to die for your right to exercise your free-choice even if it causes me grief.

Obviously I don't want the state to support these practices either.

I truly hope that you and your jolly friends will exercise compassion over the ears and eyes of sensitive child and elderly victims and if you use your toys, make sure that everyone present, including neighbours and by-passers are happy about it. Please have mercy.

Think about this:

Before the PC brigade was out and about, people had many opportunities to develop in compassion and charity. Once they legally ban all foolish activities, people who are good by nature and have the potential to evolve their heart, turn into dumb law-abiding citizens and their hearts atrophy.