Why do we, the long suffering public have to endure the 4 weeks of Guy Fawkes night?

Question

Every year It's the same, Two weeks before and two weeks after Guy Fawkes night......Everynight between 4pm and 3 am...Loud explosions going off...Just as your getting off to sleep...BANG.
Some are now using them as weapons (on bus's, It would seem).Putting explosives into the hands of children and saying, " act like an Adult".?. Well, What do you think....I live central London

Answer 1

Retailers sell them to kids to make profit, money grabbing b@stards. Do not give a fluck about the likes of me and you mate, just see pounds signs, the melts!
Should be a law that Say's only organised displays purchase fireworks. These should be issued with a licence-a free one at that-and only licence holders should be able to buy!

Answer 2

I love fireworks and can't see a way of stopping it unless you just make it illegal for the public to buy them and just hold organised events. Which I think would be such a shame. I used to love our home firework displays when i was a kid.
Also, I think the problem isn't with the fireworks, but with a few kids in society today. (Maybe a curfew for all under 18s or something?)Kids would still be able to get hold of them anyway, probably more dangerously on the black market. And if the kids you were referring to on the bus, didn't have fireworks, it would be a gun or a knife. It's a sad state of affairs.

Answer 3

Don't mean to be cocky but your pretty lucky if you only get two weeks before and after Guy Fawkes night, we've been getting them since the middle of September and no doubt they will go on until the middle of January as usual round here, we've had to listen to loud explosions till after 4 am some mornings, our poor dog is terrified, were sick to the back teeth of it but the police take no notice of our complaints, god forbid they start having kids go on buses with them round here, the amount going off is bad enough but on buses no thank you, wish they would ban them me.

Answer 4

Four weeks!! If only that were true. Fireworks have no season, no off- limits, no restrictions. Apart from Guy Fawkes, which I grudgingly tolerate, we have Summer fireworks, birthday fireworks, some Prat has won an election fireworks, baby`s first fart fireworks, my Dad is a lout fireworks, Midnight fireworks, and sod you all fireworks! The most scary is "the house /cornfield/ barn, burned down from an unknown cause", type fireworks.

Answer 5

To quote romulusnr:
" Because you don't have an Independence Day to celebrate like everyone else".

Ooooooooh, an American! You can spot it a mile off! Do you know about the gunpowder plot at all? I'll give you a clue: it happened somewhere other than on your island.

Answer 6

I`m in S Yorkshire and its the same here from early afternoon till the middle of the night it sounds like theres a war going on out there.Have you seen the size of the rockets theyre all setting of they`re as big as me! every one around here thinks i`ve gone nuts cause i`m like i`m running the gauntlet with me hands over me ears if i need to go to the shop at night ,i`m scared to death of the stupid things .

Answer 7

Wear earplugs, safe in the knowledge that Christmas is just around the corner...you can enjoy the noise of carol singers and cash registers all night then.

Answer 8

Because
"Remember remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot..."
Law it was that the 5th of November would be a day of thanks giving; I guess you could say that old habits die hard. As for the four weeks lucky you

Answer 9

It's probably so that the shops can make even more money out of people who have more money than sense, when they buy them..

Answer 10

tell them to Fawke off.