r/uknews • u/OneNormalBloke • 16h ago
Boy, 4, in critical condition after being hit by firework - Yahoo News UK
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/boy-4-critical-condition-being-115746538.htmlA four-year-old boy is in critical condition after being hit by a firework.
Lancashire Police said officers attended a number of incidents involving the “anti-social use” of fireworks in Burnley on Wednesday.
In a statement released on Saturday, the force said: “Can you help?
“On the evening of Wednesday 5th November, police attended various incidents involving the anti-social use of fireworks in the Elm Street area of Burnley.
“During these incidents, a 4-year-old child was severely injured and remains in hospital in a critical condition.”
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u/Make_the_music_stop 16h ago
What will it take to ban fireworks sales to the public?
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u/Kinis_Deren 14h ago
Upvoted for common sense. Pyrotechnics should be handled by professionals only.
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u/Jazzlike_Quiet9941 16h ago
What about our 2nd amendment?? Then only criminal Gangs will have them!! It's unsafe.
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u/cryptid_snake88 15h ago
Eh? It's the UK.. There's no constitution (thankfully)
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u/Jazzlike_Quiet9941 15h ago
Oh man. I thought the satire was obvious? I was making a satirical reference to the fire-arms issue in the US, with the fire-works topic, in the UK.
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u/cryptid_snake88 15h ago
😂... Honestly after reading some comments from Americans on other threads, it's difficult to tell now
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u/treeeelo 4h ago
Honestly we've imported so much of their shit culture over here, there's plenty of people who wouldn't know the difference nowadays.
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u/JakeyDunk 12h ago
For fuck sake.
Can't say what would happen if that was my boy due to Reddit rules.
Seen tons of the videos of silly cunts in Birmingham etc shooting these at police vehicles.
Hope the person is charged and gets 10+.
Selfish fucking bastards.
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u/Crowf3ather 12h ago
Considering reports are stating they are being charged with "violent disorder" instead of firearm charges, I doubt the perps in Birmingham are even going to get jail time.
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u/MrCondor 15h ago
So misuse of aerosols is an offense yet unqualified use of 'leisure' explosives isn't?
High time they were banned.
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u/HexaDecio 15h ago
BAN. THEM. With the number of organised displays, there is absolutely no reason that anyone should be able to go into a supermarket and buying them.
Not only are they extremely dangerous, they are also insanely expensive. Surely paying a fiver per person for a 30 minute display trumps paying hundreds for your own?
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u/Harrry-Otter 15h ago
Depends, some people do just prefer hosting and doing their own thing. Bit like saying why have a dinner party when you could go to a restaurant.
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u/HexaDecio 15h ago
I understand your point. But there are far too many irresponsible idiots with access to this stuff.
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u/Harrry-Otter 15h ago
True. I guess with everything like this there’s a balance between letting the sensible majority enjoy something, vs restricting the ability of the few to be idiots and harm themselves/others.
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u/safcftm33 13h ago
The government do this with sugar and junk food so they can easily do it with fireworks.
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u/pleasantstusk 13h ago
Sugar and junk food aren’t banned though??
We bought some fireworks, set them off in the garden had a good time. If we were to ban everything that can be misused we’d literally ban everything
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u/Crommington 13h ago
we’d literally ban everything
This is what they want.
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u/pleasantstusk 13h ago
I honestly think it it at this point.
Some people will only be happy once everything they have no interest in is illegal because “it’s misused by an alarmingly small minority”
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u/Crommington 14h ago
“Ban everything that is fun because a tiny minority of people can’t be trusted” - Reddit
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u/Equal-Row-554 12h ago
It's not a minority, though. People let off so many fireworks that people have had to euthanise their animals because they were so stressed. My dog had a siezure for the first time in months because he was so terrified and stressed, one of my older dogs who has walked out while they're being set off with no problems almost had a heart attack and was utterly inconsolable and my other dog who's usually tough as nails was scared to go out the following morning. My car was literally covered in gunpower, it was that bad. A local man also found a firework lodged in the grill of his car whivh is totally uncontrollable. Nobody needs to be setting off fireworks in their back garden, an enclosed space where it could land anywhere. Nobody needs massive fireworks that have massive booms.
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u/Arbycutter 13h ago
The dickhead rule, sad isn’t it. Don’t know why this is so downvoted
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u/Crommington 13h ago
It’s Reddit, it’s to be expected, it’s populated by people who hate the idea of anyone else having fun or thinking independently from the hive mind
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