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I don’t think I’ve heard of anything more stupid in my life. Firstly stockpiling it in the stairwell, secondly people allowing to happen and thirdly some ass lighting it ?
I remember living in the country my brothers had made a bonfire put a tube into it and launched projectiles out of it.
The projectiles bring aerosol cans.
Teens will be teens and they will take part in risky behavior, if there was organised bonfires and fireworks you would find that teens would attend these instead of making their own fun.
Wow don’t know why you got so many red thumbs Karla but I agree with you. Would be great to have some organised fireworks and bonfires for communities, organised and supervised by adults.
When I was a kid I remember all or most of the parents being involve with preparing the bonfires. Do they not bother anymore?
Easier said than done. You try taking on a group of 2-5 youths one day (possibly more), give them a telling off and you’ll either be buying new windows or paying off a hospital bill. They’ve no respect for anyone let alone themselves
“The pallets caught fire” that kinda sh*t just doesn’t happen by it self!!! Those kids are total and utter idiots hell bent on causing chaos no matter what the consequences!! Angry as usual on post Halloween day!!!!
I was thinking the same thing, unless the temperatures inside those stairwells are ridiculously high I think the chances of them just “catching fire” are pretty slim!
Bonfires are going to happen every year and the threat of the guards or councils taking the wood etc, the kids are trying to hide it. Stupidly in this case, but kids do stupid stuff.
Why not organise supervised bonfires/fireworks displays that can be kept in control while keeping people happy and safe.
My own teen attended a bonfire last night organised ‘off the record’ in a small rural community. Parent’s were involved in setting it up and lighting it, in a farmer’s field with.his permission.
We attended a bonfire in the same location last year. The guards turned up as I left so I have no idea what happened after that.
Tbh I burn wood and coal in the fireplace every evening.
One night a year she goes to a bonfire. 1 night. It’s mostly pallets that are burnt with tree branches.
She has gone to a bonfire nearly every Halloween for the last 14 year’s. Never once has anyone been injured or the fire got out of control.
As I said in an earlier article I spent some of my childhood in the UK. The bonfires there were way better, it was a community event with food, music and fireworks.
That might be grand down the country when you can put it in farmer Joe’s field miles from buildings. More often than not these are built close to houses in parks run by the council and cost a fortune to clean up! It’s a focal point for the local social deviants to get locked and to run riot. The so called “Adults” who “supervise” are more often than not bananas drunk. There are organised fireworks displays in different areas if they want somewhere to go. Bonfires are just an excuse for anti social behaviour and to stone the fire brigade when they turn up to put it out!!
Even in the town bonfires I went to with my daughter there was no anti social behavior even when the fire engines came to put them out. There used to be 6 or 7 bonfires around the town.
There was no antisocial behavior at the one my daughter went to last night.
Been working in the market for years now and every year we see packs of kids/teens (sometimes up to 30 or more) coming for pallets they usually start a month before Halloween.. Quite intimidating at times they have no care for your work place or any authority at all.. Something really should be done before a tragic incident occurs.. Fair play to the fire brigade but I think the council should be doing more to stop this..
Perhaps those adults who were trapped and must have known about the pallets might think about reporting such things next year.
Really believe that supervised bonfires with fireworks are the answer.
Stupid place to hide the wood. And you lot make me sick as if none of you lot never collected wood when you were kids Halloween is for the kids not for you lot to give out about looking for attention…..
Those kids desperately need to be entertained and upskilled. They got no activities in the city centre… sad to see but that’s exactly why they are creative in trouble making. We need facilities in the centre where they can walk in, learn new skills while having fun in a community centre or something.
I know for a fact that in many part of the US, bonfires are organized and supervised by the fire department. These bonfires tend to be larger than belief, become a local social family event and vendors selling food & drink can make a few bob.
No Jeff… you are way off the mark… how many adults live in that complex? Did none of the adults see the danger in stockpiling the wood in the stairwell?
Are so many of the adults there so bunged up that they could not lay the needle aside for one night of the year and organise a community bonfire for the residents?
Kids rearing kids is what this situation smacks of. These people have little or no desire to grab themselves by the bootstraps and try to make a difference. Tough on them, but they reap what the sow.
At least get your grammar right if you are going to slag people off..Halloween is not about bonfires going out of control and setting fire people’s homes & then attacking the fire services who try to extinguish said fire..can’t defend these idiots.
there should be a levy on pallets to enforce people to return them….so when someone buys a pallet of blocks … charge an extra 50 and give it back when they return the pallet.
…….and not a mention of the two innocent shopping trolleys that were sacrificed on the fire, just because one had a wonky wheel didn’t mean it had to die like this!!!
Typical idiot racists on the journal who talk about everything they know nothing about. Go out and get a job, failing that – stop hiding behind a fake name!
Why not give the boys paint guns keep the youths from smashing up there vehicles with kegs ….imagine that in American police shoot on sight government to soft
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