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Post by stantheman on Nov 4, 2011 20:55:27 GMT
my poor dog is ready for a hart attack.For some reason everyone around my way seem to think today is the 5th,fireworks going off all around us.I'm going to have to sedate my dog tomorrow if it's like this.The sad thing is it's not kids,it's adults.It's getting a bit out of hand,and time the law was changed to organised displays.Or am I just becoming an old grumpy fart?
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Post by strathglass on Nov 4, 2011 21:21:55 GMT
my poor dog is ready for a hart attack.For some reason everyone around my way seem to think today is the 5th,fireworks going off all around us.I'm going to have to sedate my dog tomorrow if it's like this.The sad thing is it's not kids,it's adults.It's getting a bit out of hand,and time the law was changed to organised displays. Or am I just becoming an old grumpy fart? You are just becoming a Grumpy old fart...
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ade
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Post by ade on Nov 4, 2011 21:36:02 GMT
Big bangs have been going off for hundreds of years; wars, canons, shooting, thunder and lightening. Dogs just need to toughen up.
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Post by diverdave on Nov 4, 2011 23:30:09 GMT
25 years in the fire service, and if i never see another fire work it will be too soon.
The event history is largely lost, the costs to communities is enormous and to some individuals is far more - life changing and not in a good way. In my experience, when the squibs are gone some folks simply run about setting fire to stuff. In past years i have seen houses, buildings, cars shops and caravans set alight on and in the lead up to bonfire night. Simply arson.
Every year folks are killed and injured by cat 1.4 explosives in pretty boxes. The event allows, indeed makes it acceptable to let off flares, and is the only time we can play with fire in our towns and cities.
Tomorrow night fire fighters will be under attack, throughout normally quiet areas.
Ok, i will be at the local display with my kids, it is part of the social year, particularly for our families, but the date is an excuse for really dangerous behaviour.
Have a safe 5/11!
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Post by stantheman on Nov 4, 2011 23:40:29 GMT
Big bangs have been going off for hundreds of years; wars, canons, shooting, thunder and lightening. Dogs just need to toughen up. toughen up,is that what they said to the soldiers in ww,1 when they where suffering from shell shock
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Post by conwyrod on Nov 5, 2011 19:22:53 GMT
My last lab used to tremble like jelly on bonfire night.
Just back from a walk with my lab tonight and he doesn't seem to notice fireworks.
He'd make a good sniffer dog for the bomb disposal boys in Afghanistan!
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Post by sinkingtip on Nov 6, 2011 20:27:06 GMT
I have to admit I still enjoy letting off the odd 'skweeb' or 'barking doagie' - under highly controlled circumstances of course.
Certainly a lot less 'random' activity up our street in the preceding few days this year - nae wonder, the price of household explosives these days. A local fireman commented to me this morning in the paper shop that, again, their call outs were significantly down this year.
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ade
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Post by ade on Nov 7, 2011 20:21:37 GMT
Big bangs have been going off for hundreds of years; wars, canons, shooting, thunder and lightening. Dogs just need to toughen up. toughen up,is that what they said to the soldiers in ww,1 when they where suffering from shell shock I imagine so, yes. But those poor men (some of them former members of my family) were in a completely different environment in WW1, foreign land, muddy trenches, disease and seeing comrades blown to pieces, I could go on. Not quite like pooch in it's basket in the centrally heated kitchen, or sprawled on the sofa
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Post by somerley on Nov 8, 2011 16:41:30 GMT
They tell me most families budgets are under pressure right now. Nae laddie, how can that be when they are setting light to cash ! Well that is about the measure of it.......
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Post by dunkeld on Nov 8, 2011 19:31:09 GMT
I get the next door neighours to buy ours.
Would have thought they would have cottoned on by now, as every year our family all gather in the back garden waiting on them lighting theirs ;D ;D
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Post by sinkingtip on Nov 8, 2011 21:00:23 GMT
I get the next door neighours to buy ours. Would have thought they would have cottoned on by now, as every year our family all gather in the back garden waiting on them lighting theirs ;D ;D Very good Kenny ;D I hope you at least had the decency to fire up a few sparklers.
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