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[Willing]

Baby Burned as Fireworks Thrown into Pram

http://news.scotsman...rown.4683927.jp

[dave89]

There are some sick people out there.

And what was the mother doing leaving her baby outside a newsagent

[Prestonboi]

It's news like this that will get fireworks sales to the general public banned.

Edited by Prestonboi, 19 November 2008 - 03:24 PM.

[pyroduck7]

just finished reading it all, people where postine lit fireworks through letterboxes aswell; as for picking on someone smaller than you, this is another level - its just sick!

personally i would like the age restructuon of fireworks to go up to 21. there are still alot of 18year old chavs and ASBO people who will missuse the PRIVALAGE

[bwdoz]

just finished reading it all, people where postine lit fireworks through letterboxes aswell; as for picking on someone smaller than you, this is another level - its just sick!

personally i would like the age restructuon of fireworks to go up to 21. there are still alot of 18year old chavs and ASBO people who will missuse the PRIVALAGE

Yes, but where do you stop? What about this story from the Beeb - http://news.bbc.co.u...ter/7136317.stm

Your amendment would have stopped one of them but the other would have been able to legally purchase fireworks.

[Daedalus]

Yes, but where do you stop? What about this story from the Beeb - http://news.bbc.co.u...ter/7136317.stm

Your amendment would have stopped one of them but the other would have been able to legally purchase fireworks.

Not that any of this can be condoned and certainly anyone who throws a firework into a pram should be locked up for ever but once again we have the brilliantly accurate anti-firework reporting -

The explosive went off - firing about 500 rockets in a small, confined space.

That sounds a pretty big firework with 500 ROCKETS in it - more like a cat 4 tea-chest of doom - I wouldn't mind one of those for outdoor use as a cat 3.

[RichardEvans]

Horrid, just horrid but must be remembered. Someone could have easily thrown in a lit paper sheet. Never blame the tools for misuse, blame the user. Sick b******

[kcnkickthecat]

That sounds a pretty big firework with 500 ROCKETS in it - more like a cat 4 tea-chest of doom - I wouldn't mind one of those for outdoor use as a cat 3.

Me too mate. I like the way they call it an 'industrial firework', if it were 'industrial' or as the rest of us within the UK calls it, Cat4, they wouldn't have been able to buy it anyway. 500 rockets!!! lol. Since when (after '97) has a cat 3 cake fired 500 rockets (not counting the little whistlers)? Surely the Beeb meant small shells/cake inserts... (but that doesn't sound anywhere near as horrific). I wish the media would do at least 3 minutes of basic internet research before going to print!

And as for throwing fireworks at all, sh*t idea. Throwing them at a baby is deplorable. Life with no parole (or bed, or window...).

[pyroduck7]

Yes, but where do you stop? What about this story from the Beeb - http://news.bbc.co.u...ter/7136317.stm

Your amendment would have stopped one of them but the other would have been able to legally purchase fireworks.

yes. you are right there. but think how many accdents it could save. shure 2 out of 3 people could buy them for people under 21, shure 21 year old people could misuse them, but is 2/3 is 2000/3000 thats 1000 accdents saved. and if the 18 year old's do just want to celabrate a wedding or something, there perants or gardian shurely would buy them for them.

[phildunford]

Whilst deploring the incident, I can't agree with all this age stuff.

When you are 18, you can have a job, own a house, own a car, get married, have children & run a business - all at the same time if you like! and you are telling me you should not be able to buy fireworks?

It's about responsibility. You can be responsible when you are 10 and a complete nutter when you are are 90.

The punishment should fit the crime, but don't punish all 18 year olds for the crimes of the few. That way lies 'no fireworks for the general public - they are too dangerous'.

[pyroduck7]

Whilst deploring the incident, I can't agree with all this age stuff.

When you are 18, you can have a job, own a house, own a car, get married, have children & run a business - all at the same time if you like! and you are telling me you should not be able to buy fireworks?

It's about responsibility. You can be responsible when you are 10 and a complete nutter when you are are 90.

The punishment should fit the crime, but don't punish all 18 year olds for the crimes of the few. That way lies 'no fireworks for the general public - they are too dangerous'.

yea, i aggree now i see it from a different perspective - thank you