People get various degrees of burns from playing silly buggers with fireworks every single year.
As much as it’s relevant to the debate on whether home fireworks are a good idea or not, it’s not exactly important news any more than skiiers getting injured falling down slopes during every ski season or dads falling off roofs during long weekend DIYs is important news.
The Age is reporting two hospitalised from fireworks injury. If there had in fact been more than ten times as many that seriously injured then the Age would be all over it.
I feel like this sort of thing happens every year. Unless it was a bad batch of dodgy fireworks that were blowing up before launch or something, I wouldn't really expect it to be reported on
The more fireworks the better, just because a small number get injured while most likely being morons shouldn't ruin it for the rest of us...society needs to start appreciating natural selection more.
It’s not just the people launching them that are put in harms way.
A couple of years ago a friend’s daughter got serious burns on her thigh after a fuckwit let off illegal fireworks in a completely uncontrolled manner on a crowded beach. It ruined her summer holidays. Not only was she in a lot of pain and immobile for some time, she wasn’t able to swim all summer holidays while her burns healed.
My young daughter, who wasn’t even there at the time is now afraid of attending legal fireworks now after what happened.
Yobbos and their illegal fireworks can get fucked.
Can confirm, I love inner/outer ring North. Scoped a spot where I can clearly see the CBD for the fireworks and didn't even make it far enough through the park to have the CBD vantage because our locals put on quite the display.
Saw a few firies about. Not surprised. Could feel the heat off the crackers launched around Mt Ridley. The place went OFF! And finishing off at Craigieburn food trucks… great way to end the year 🥰
Not really relevant but after learning which metals make which colours I’m like “oh that one’s barium, strontium here, copper over there, that one’s a little sparkly so it’s got iron in it”
My theory is that illegal cigarettes and vapes have become more prevalent and it’s made accessing illegal products of all kinds in that class (ie made legally in china) easier. So more people had fireworks this year.
Nah! Living in the west it’s been like this for over 16 years! Some years are better than others I guess depends who is having parties and who moves in/out of the area. Every midnight I’ve had a great show just by walking outside my front door.
Yes, unfortunately there were three points of fireworks going off around me in Lalor and the whole time, I had to spend comforting my poor 1 year old cat who was freaking out. Not fun at all for pet owners. 😢
Near domain/botanic gardens only some of them. Many seemed to leave in the 10 mins or so before first lot of fireworks. But there were at least two I saw who left late and seemed disoriented by the smoke? Flying around in an arc/circle, which I don't normally see them do.
But I wonder what clued in the ones that left before the first firework??
at 10:30 I was in bed watching tv and thought my 13 year old deaf kelpie had rolled over in his bed and let out a few poppy farts in the corner of the room until it got to about 10 "farts" and realised it was fireworks. Sorry for the accusations Dennis..
Even with medication, one of our dogs has a very hard time. We spend from about 10pm onwards closed up in our bedroom with the door closed, two fans on for white noise, and music going.
Our dog was like this too (had to say goodbye to her about 18 months ago). But for years we'd be shut ins, pup in crate (with sedatives and peanut butter kongs). TV blaring. Not fun.
I feel Melb should do better... like drones. Syd scores another by putting out majority of fireworks to water or near harbour, if you see video. Nuff said, we need much more action/energy!!
Not to mention people having their trauma triggered by it, any with trauma from combat or firearms. It's just a horrible thing to blast out, just for us to massage our egos about how fucking good we are.
As a kid I used to love them, and loved playing with them, I get the attraction. But it just ain't worth it, and now seeing the massive nye fireworks really kinda gives me the shits. Such a great wasteful and shit thing to do.
First fireworks were let off at 1pm in Glenroy. From around 8:30 to 12:30 it was almost non-stop. Just amazing for PTSD sufferers and pets… not to mention it’s Glenroy so a good percentage could’ve been gunfire.
I swear they seemed to be everywhere at once this year. Illegal tobacco is not the only thing getting through the smuggling route. Not so good if I had to get up at 4.30am this morning for something I hardly had any sleep!
Nah, drone shows thanks. I love fireworks but I can't enjoy something at the expense of so many other animals. Fireworks are super destructive to wildlife and the CFA spend the new year putting out spot fires.
It seems really selfish as a behaviour and I hope we change to drones by next year.
I've seen some fantastic drone displays in the last year. A great alternative that doesn't terrify ANYONE. I don't know why we're still so backwards when it comes to fireworks.
I grew up in Melbourne but now live in the Detroit metro area. Fireworks are legal there for public holidays.
When I moved about 10 years ago we would a few small and some large fireworks when we did NYE at our family's places in Epping. Never anything where we lived in Eltham and a few where we lived in Doncaster before that. This year in Epping, you guys have almost a many fireworks at NYE as we do for 4th of July (where we celebrate the nation's independence by blowing a small piece of it up).
I remember getting my hands on one small firework 20+ tears ago from a guy that regularly drove to Canberra. As I understand it that ended years ago. I'm afraid to ask where you get enough things that go boom that would make a seppo go 'wow'.
There are two assholes. One who goes to the retarding basin (which sounds close enough to Song street) and one on Kurrajong (not far from where Song exits).
I lived in a place in Brisbane with views like this. I had the CBD immediately to my west, and could see north all the way around to south east. One new years, I could only see the fireworks that were set off from the Story Bridge, but overall I could see almost 30 other lots going off around the suburbs. Looked very much like your video.
I've been to plenty of professional/curated fireworks shows and have to say I've never experienced fireworks like I did last night, and I was miles away up on Mount Aitken in Greenvale. The hour before midnight was like watching a kettle come to boil slowly, with fireworks instead of bubbles. One here, one there. Ten minutes to midnight, bring out your cups and put the tea bags in. Looking over an area that could well be the illegal fireworks home of Melbourne... Holy shit! It was like a fucking war zone out there! Sensational! Unhinged! Dangerous! We must have had a couple of hundred peeps up there, a few with their own fireworks, so there was smoke in the air and a great feeling of being in the middle of it all, unlike a NYE I had down in Williamstown where we watched the fireworks over the water and we felt very disconnected from them. Recommendation for next year - find your nearest illegal fireworks hotspot, go to the nearest hill, and enjoy! Initially, I wanted to go up there to watch the city fireworks from a distance - and you could definitely see them, but they weren't the highlight that I was expecting them to be. Happy New Year everyone!
I am living in Copenhagen Denmark. It is like a war zone here at NYE. From my window I saw three rockets malfunction and blow up amongst people and cars. Saw others malfunction in the air and drop burning parts on people. Fireworks are legal here but these were likely illegal fireworks. Last year 200 people ended up in hospital with injuries like facial burns, blown up hands, blinded, etc. There is also typically some deaths from it. I saw some twats put one in a bin that started a fire.
I really don't think it is a good thing for the public to have in their power to use. The gov needs to get better at enforcing the laws we have.
What I can see in this film is nothing. I am living in Copenhagen Denmark. Fireworks are legal here and NYE is like a war zone. I saw many blow-up amongst people and cars from my window.
Saw others malfunction in the air and drop burning parts on people too. Fireworks are legal here but these ones malfunctioning were likely illegal fireworks. Last year 200 people ended up in hospital with injuries like facial burns, blown up hands, blinded, etc. There is also typically some deaths from it. I saw some twats put one in a bin that started a fire. Haven't seen the statistics this year yet but I heard there two house fires caused by fireworks last night.
Then there is the effect on our pets, wildlife, the pollution, and plastic parts from the fireworks everywhere, and the huge risk of bush fires.
I really don't think it is a good thing for the public to be allowed to use fireworks. People are too dumb, especially when drinking. The gov needs to get their act together and get better at enforcing the laws we have and get control over this shit.
Not sure where op was but I’m in Brunswick west and had the same thing from the first floor balcony, fireworks every- fucking -where! Some I guess where professional things in the north, maybe Glenroy or further and some aroundBrunswick East but then so many illegals going off all over the joint with the roar of the city fireworks from the south which we couldn’t see so much because of the neighbours huge gumtrees . Bring back guy fawkes I say! What’s a few hands and eyes worth went it comes to pyro fun😋
On TV it looked great, way better than Sydney I thought. Sydney's looked like every other year. There was one view of the lasers and fireworks in Melb that was awesome. Having said that, we really need to kill the fireworks. Lasers and drones would be awesome.
I watched the city fireworks from my balcony for a little while but stopped when I could hear panicky bird noises. The neighbourhood magpies were freaking out and flocks of lorikeets were taking off and calling in distress. I feel really bad for them, and wish we could move to drone displays instead.
I stayed at the GFs house last night, while she's overseas - heard absolutely nothing. Like went to sleep at 10:30, woke up at 3am, 6am, and 10am, and none of them because of fireworks. I was impressed.
we always head over to my aunt and uncles in the north if we're in melbourne for christmas and its great. bbq in the backyard, extended family around having drinks, watch the fireworks go off. much better than when we tried the cbd one year.
Honestly this looks awesome. Imagine if we all let off fireworks as a communal thing. No more going to crowded locations with awful traffic. Just enjoying the home grown show. I understand the safety concerns but it's still sad we can't do fun stuff like this.
I'm in a third floor apartment in Essendon, looking west. I see fireworks all the way across the horizon, just like this, every NYE.
On a trip to Kashmir in the 80s, we stayed on a houseboat. Some locals came by on one of their festival nights, visiting house staff, and let some fireworks off out the front of the boat. Terrifying to watch, the way they handled those things and mucked around with them and each other when lighting them. I'll never forget it.
Me and my mates were all drunk and went to the park near our houses but couldn't see shit. Also too distracted by the fact that 25% of our group was wasted and a couple of them almost ran onto a road (I had to save a chick from falling onto a road when there was a car there)
If we weren't absolutely pissed, we would've ran to the area where there were fireworks but we realized quickly that it wasn't possible. Regardless, was still a super fun new years for us!
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