>Fireworks here, in South East London / Surrey have been on >sale ALL YEAR
ROUND. We are disgusted by the fact that
>every single weekend since June was have had fireworks going >off
Here in Canada, or at least in Ontario, fireworks
are permitted on May 24th and on Dominion Day July 1st.
At all other times it is illegal to set them off. There are exceptions, but
those are by permit only.
The laws relating to pyrotechnics were seriously
tightened up after several children had fingers blown
off, bottoms blown up, (from carrying large firecrackers
called cannons in their back pockets), eyes blinded,
from crackers going off in their faces and some really
nasty injuries that made politicians move to regulate
their usage.
The companies selling the fireworks in the UK
are probably getting their own way now, but as soon
as there is a public uproar about them as a danger
rather than as a nuisance you'll probably get more
politicians on the bandwagon to either ban or
regulate them. Common sense doesn't seem to move
them until a large number of adults, or a small
number of children, are killed or injured. Noise
bothering a whole neighborhood won't do it, money
speaks louder than complaints, but when there are
people killed or maimed something positive will
get done. Sad, but that seems to be what it takes
these days.
Sharon Briggs
in soggy wet Brampton, Ontario.
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