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yeah sure, in keeping with HRM’s propensity for asinine bylaws & bans… we should just impose bans on EVERYTHING… hell, let’s have a moratorium on fun in general!
lord almighty this city’s got no soul, and its councillors are a bunch of incompetent nazi dinosaurs
This article appears in Jul 24-30, 2008.
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Wow you must not live in a neighborhood where teenagers shoot the little ones off all hours of the night. Beyond that, fireworks are dangerous and in the wrong hands can harm the person setting them off and anybody in the vicinity. I am sorry if there is nothing else you can do that will provide you entertainment besides handling explosives
im with Broc on this, these fuckers come out of nowhere. They also sound like gunshots. The article in the paper the other day was sorta inaccurate. In most provinces, fireworks are only sold a day or two before fireworks days. They arent on the shelves year round like they are here.
Halifax has already provisions against irresponsible fireworks use.you have to have the permission of the landOWNER, be 200 feet from a dwelling, and must have a clear view of the sky (not shooting through trees), plus regular noise bylaws apply.so the city should step up enforecement of the laws, not take the lazy way out, and discriminate against people who do not have cars to drive outside the city limits and get fireworks.i am tired of being discriminated against, because i do not have a car. i am stuck in the city for the summer (cant even get out to a nice ocean beach, or go camping) and now they want to further show me just how unworthy i am to have fun because i am not in a possession of a car.i know one councillor who won’t be getting my vote.
oh, and you have to be 18 to buy fireworks (and stores actually ID people for that).
I don’t know if I should be making this point, but I love shooting off fireworks when drunk. I keep a stash of them hidden in my house. When I get drunk some friends and I hit the local park and shoot ’em off. Its sweet… TOOOO SWEEEEET! AHHH! BEACH BALL!!!!
provisions aside, there is no real need to sell them at anytime of the year aside from when fireworks events are held. And the provisions thing is pointless since the shit still occurs.
I also love fireworks! The more, the better! The louder, the better! And I also like the fact that I only have to go up the street to Wilson’s to get em! I don’t know where you guys live that they’re bothering you so much that you think they need to be banned. I may hear a few each night, but for the most part it’s only on the weekends. It’s summertime, loosen up, I can’t imagine a few bangs off in the distance bothering anyone. Unless they’re being set off right outside your window…in which case you could follow grindcore’s advice and complain about noise or the fact that someone is setting off fireworks less than 200ft from your house.
did you not read the article in the herald the other day? You can complain all you want, but by time the police get there, dude is gone. It might not bother you, but the damage they leave behind when fired at a house is bad sometimes. Kids shooting them at cars is the worst as that burn mark cant be washed off.
once again, one irrisponsible twerp with lazy parents ruining it for the rest of us…wow that seems out of character for me, but it’s kind of true. I like fireworks. I can buy them, use them, and not disturb anyone. but it’s the idiots who decide to set them off ont he tiny patch of grass outside my building, shooting into the air through the trees and power lines less thatn a metre from my bedroom window, or better yet stage a roman candle war (in which they shoot them at each other) that ruin it for the rest of us. and because CLEARLY we have to constantly cater to the lowest common denominator instead of, oh I dunno, doing something about whyt hese people have no common sense…….
Homie, you should really consider moving out of Cole Harbour!If it’s happening so much that you think there needs to be a ban, then the culprits probably have a routine. Same times, same places…so call in advance and report it, that way they could catch them in the act.
Agreed Homie. In a free country there is no need to be able to purchase a legal product to use within the law. That’d be crazy. That’s like not selling egg nog year long. BOOOOOO Democracy!(Ignore that I don’t use them responsibly)
egg nogs awesome. now I want to go drink some nog and shoot off some fireworks. possibly while hitting people with beachballs.
lori, i never said i lived anywhere near cole harbor.This was from an article printed in the newspaper. Like hedgy said, it takes just a few dicks to fuck it up for the many. Unlike eggnog, fireworks damage OTHER people’s shit when people mess around with it. Over the past year i can think of 2 cases where some fool istarted a fire with these things. It is funny that lori is thinking of herself and not the fuckheads that think its funny to shoot these at other people, the damage these things do is irreversable. But hey, there is a need to shoot these off year round, and it is to make you happy.It took a few to fuck it up, but these things could cause some SERIOUS damage from injuries to fires.
I’m in! I think there’s a multicultural festival in Cole Harbour…can we go there? Never mind, that’s way the fuck out there! Commons it is!
I know Homie…I am selfish! Really I’m a terrible person who likes fireworks and beachballs!Pull the cucumber out of your ass…I promise you’ll feel better!
so lets guess lori, cause YOU like fireworks, fuck those that get hurt by them, even though as reported in the paper, the police rarely catch anyone misusing them, and fuck those like hedgy that could have one sail into the house, and fuck those that get property damage…… all cause you like them.
Yup Homie, I think you nailed that one on the head – that’s exactly what she is saying.sigh.
Yup, and fuck all those hurt by beachballs! Fuck em ALL!
well nog can be pretty damaging too- too much nog and there’s digestive pyrotechniques all over the place…let’s not deny the possible danger inherent in the nog. someone could be allergic to it! and not know it! and it could spill of a shelf in the grocery store and make them itchy! egads! BAN THE NOG BAN THE NOG I SAY!!Let’s look at the bigger picture here people: people like lori, myself, etc who enjoy a good fireworking now and again have no issues with them. as we use them responsibly. it’s the idiots who misuse them that are the problem,. so why are we going to punish EVERYONE because someone’s too dumb to use them correctly? let’s enforce existing laws, let’s look at the root causees of this fuckery and deal with that- because if you ban the fireworks, these idiots will just find something else to be stupid with.oh hey, I know: how about a ‘light responsibly’ ad campaign? worked for alchol, and there’s a legal substance that can be WAY more destructive than fireworks…or do you think, because some people will drink and drive or get drunk and vomit on the sidewalk, that we should ban that too?
hey i agree to enforce the existing laws. Like the police said, this is one that is just too hard to enforce. From the point of infraction, to the time they arrive there, unless you are going to go catch the dude and hold them till police get there, there isnt much they can do. This is just a preventable thing.
Listen Homie. If you keep trying to illegalize my fireworks I’m knocking your ass out with a frozen carton of Nog.So if we are going to make things that could hurt people illegal, lets make a list to present to the Czar.- Forks- Fishing Hooks- Paper (Ouch paper cuts)- Frozen Cartons of Egg Nog- Anyone from Cole Harbour- Rolled up newspapers- Hunting Rifles- Of course lethal beach balls- Skipping rope- Piano Wire- Broken Chicken Bones (In the neck piece homes)- Etc.
i acutally would love to see your house burnt down by one of these idiots. Or have one of them whizz into your house…i would be the guy to say, “who cares, as long as i use them responsibly”
You know what, if your stupid enough to keep holding on to the firework AFTER it’s lit then you deserve to have your hand blown off or whatever part of your body happens to be wrapped around it. Society would be better off for it.
I actually, would love to see you hit in the head with frozen Nog.I would be that gal to say “as long as you don’t waste that Nog, and defrost and mix with rum afterwards”
I always hold the Roman candles when I shoot. But I do accept responsibility for it if it blows my hand off.And Homie. My point is that we can’t go around regulating every thing because they COULD be used dangerously. I am not arguing the point that laws should not be there to regulate where and when they can be used. However, I was born free and will remain free. If that means buying fireworks whenever I want, that also means I am free to say what I want. If we start putting up walls in places like being to buy fireworks year round, what’s next? Soon we won’t be able to think, breathe, or eat without regulation. Sorry Homie, if you want that sort of regulation, go become a Cuban citizen. P.S. I love Cuba. I am only using that as an example of a nation perceived to have limitations everywhere.
Lori, I DEMAND we get drunk off defrosted Nog and Rum. Go shoot some fireworks at homies house. Then offer him a sapling. The burny rubble should make for good compost!
But how are we gonna get there? He obviously lives far from the DT core, transit sucks ass, and I don’t drink and shoot fireworks! But I would love to!
Everyone knows how you are suppose to use fireworks. I know I’m not suppose to hold a firework while I shoot it off, and still do.I get woken up by loud music more often then fireworks. But we are not going to ban speakers.
loud music cant set your house on fire, loud music doesnt do property damageloud music cant burn your face.
yeah, but a lot of things that are FUN can potentially be dangerous. curling irons and straighteners can burn you- but we still have those. stoves can catch on fire if used correctly- but we can still cook dinner. basketballs could rian on my head and give me a nose bleed but I still get to play.the point is it’s not the product that’s the problem, it’s the idiots who misuse them. I’m not about to suggest we ban everything that could kill use becuse we’d be left with nothing but bubble wrap. which actually would be sort of cool. although I suppsoe it could be a suffocation risk so no dice there.banning them WON’T help. people will still get them, or just move their fuckery to something else. actually enforcing exisiting rules, and holding peopel accountable for their fuckery when it effects others will.and if the only person they’re hurting is themselves? well that’s natural selection for you baby.
I really could have gone into another product that could do those things but I was being lazy Homie. MY LEG FEELS FUNNY!
Well you can do one or the other, I’ll do both! And we can catch a ride with an obnoxious driver who hits bikers and such.
i get your point, but in your post, you talk about “your free will”. LIke was stated by someone earlier, that free will got fucked up by others that do damage. Spray paint is another one that was fucked up by the actions of a few. By the way, most the injuries with fireworks that the paper was talking about is idiots that think it is funny to shoot them at other people.
Fair enough. I just disagree with regulation of a majority of things. It can lead to a world we do not want to live in. I believe very much a system of Anarchy is ideal, however, the actions of a group of people would make that chaos. I only aim fireworks at my enemies.
that’s a solid policy bad guy.what more can we do, really? We already regulate who can buy them (over 18) on the supposition that that means they’ll be used responsibibly. Myabe what’s needed here instead of more bylaws and ruining others fun is more information on how NOT to use them. I think at least a few people don’t get some of the basic rules of fireworks- just as in days gone past people don’t get that drinking and driving was a bad plan. maybe all this kuffufle in the media lately will do that.meanwhile, I’m totally in for a nog-firework excusrion. although, really, we should be doing this downtown. while blaring music out of a car. and eating multicultural food as downtowns the only place you can get it.
I’ll start off by saying that it does suck to be woken up by idiots with fireworks.That said, Walker’s knee-jerk reaction will do really nothing except bring another waste of taxpayer’s money at meetings. Why? Higher orders of government allow them, so the lowly municipal government won’t have an effect. It would only be the law in Halifax county, so all you would have to do is go to Hants county or any other one and you can still buy fireworks. This is a provincial issue where legislation that fireworks can only be sold 2-3 days prior to holidays and used until the day after the holiday might help the problem (like in Ontario, which works reasonably well). However, people can still stockpile the for future use because as the articles state “by the time authorities get to the display, the culprits are gone”.
i said pretty much the same thing as fred just did. Its unfortunate that people fucked it up, but if you like fireworks, get them like they do in ontario, a few days before the day in which traditionally they are set off. Really there isnt that many times you see a display put on that isnt associated to a holiday. There is no real need for them to be there.