Velocette wrote:If you take a small brown paper bag, puff it up and set it on the floor and light the two top corners, it will take off when it is nearly burned out. No good at night but relatively safe.
Lol we used to do that
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Velocette wrote:If you take a small brown paper bag, puff it up and set it on the floor and light the two top corners, it will take off when it is nearly burned out. No good at night but relatively safe.
Another wonderful way to mark respect is to make paper boats and put little candles in them or set fire to them down the river. It looks beautiful in the dark.cabte wrote:Fireworks can travel a long way and you dont have control on where they go or in what direction.
Also how unreliable they can be. How many times have you heard of a firework coming back down an exploding. Or even not getting the chance to go anywhere and exploding.
The problem with a lot of people is they are all happy to use them till something happens just like the link above, i do feel sorry for them that get hurt but 1 small accident and they all jump on the band wagon.
Lark hill is situated in a town they wont stop others from setting them off.
Such a shame last year we set them off as a mark of respect for a bongo member and good friend that sadly passed away. It was a very emotional time for some people.
Maybe they don't all think about the consequences, but the dangers are still there ...Diplomat wrote:It's bad enough that we have no option nowadays other than to have to buy necessities from China.
When it comes to buying frivolities from them, the Chinese must be celebrating the stupidity of our economic suicide by releasing fireworks and lanterns all over their nearby tinder strewn landscape without a thought about the consequences.
Frank
Well its hardly conclusive evidence is it;Matt&JoyBongling wrote:a site reporting the death of a cow that ate a lantern: [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... s-cow.html[/url
I would want some think a little more rigorous than that to be convinced it was the cause.After his cow died he went down to the field to investigate and found the remains of the lantern, which looked like it had been "half-eaten".
Well NO they are not being banned, this is the first line of the article;Matt&JoyBongling wrote:They are being banned in Beijing ....
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2011-02/1 ... 904282.htm
[/quote]Beijing authorities yesterday announced a ban on setting off fireworks and firecrackers near high-rise buildings during next Thursday's Lantern Festival.
Well at least this one is getting close, a three year old is burned at a Fireworks party, however not much info. about how it came to happen, how come the parent looking after the kid didn't suffer any harm?hembramacho wrote:This happened just down the road from us last year:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w ... -27622894/
They are Banning fireworks - near high-rise buildings, not Lanterns.[/quote]g8dhe wrote:Well NO they are not being banned, this is the first line of the article;Matt&JoyBongling wrote:They are being banned in Beijing ....
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2011-02/1 ... 904282.htmBeijing authorities yesterday announced a ban on setting off fireworks and firecrackers near high-rise buildings during next Thursday's Lantern Festival.
As forDiplomat wrote:When it comes to buying frivolities from them, the Chinese must be celebrating the stupidity of our economic suicide by releasing fireworks and lanterns all over their nearby tinder strewn landscape without a thought about the consequences.
Frank
Let us start with banning dihydrogen monoxide - it kills far more people than your device and causes far more damage!g8dhe wrote:Suggestion regarding banning things, if we have a proven statistics, running over several years of a device that kills 2500 people each year - thats over 6 people a day - should we ban the device ?
There you have it. Need anyone justify them any more?
How about a little fireproof address label on them so they know where to send the bill?Diplomat wrote:There you have it. Need anyone justify them any more?
Apart from the fundamental fire risk, they become gratuitous litter as soon as they are released.
Frank
Funnily enough, that crossed my mind. However, nobody would fill it in anyway.scanner wrote:
How about a little fireproof address label on them so they know where to send the bill?
But if they are so safe and not a problem, why would anyone not be happy, indeed proud, to add their name and address before sending one off into the wild black yonder?Diplomat wrote:Funnily enough, that crossed my mind. However, nobody would fill it in anyway.scanner wrote:
How about a little fireproof address label on them so they know where to send the bill?
If they were traceable, I guess a lawsuit or two would have a sobering effect on the activity. Or how about 'Arson by Negligence'? All claims to be sent to the importers/wholesalers.
Frank