No! to Backyard Fireworks

[DanaC]

I posit it's fear of the unknown, because you have never learned how to handle them and how you really have to screw up to get hurt.

More importantly, Bruce, I am aware of how little you have to screw up for someone to get hurt. My mum still has the scar from the rocket that went into her stomach when she was 8. Not, I might point out, because people were messing about and acting unsafely, but at a small neighbourhood display when the rocket slipped down just before it launched.

I have handled fireworks. I have handled them for my niece's sake. I still hate them :P

@ 3foot: indoor fireworks were a fad during the late-70s and 80s. They are not explosive lol. There's one that sits there as a little pyramid and when you light it it fizzes and turns into a volcano effect. Another one you set alight and it spews stuff out in a snake shape......oh and of course the ubiquitous sparklers

http://www.fireworksarcade.co.uk/indoor-fireworks.html