00:00 With alternative displays and cost-cutting measures at the forefront
00:04 of town halls across the region, people will have to look elsewhere for
00:08 Catherine wheels and rockets on Merseyside. Though some have welcomed this
00:12 news, it doesn't mean there won't be events elsewhere. We've been on the
00:17 streets of Liverpool to ask what you think of fireworks.
00:21 I hate them. Organised displays only. They've started this week, kids are setting them off everywhere.
00:31 Dogs get upset, us oldie wrinklies get upset. Ban them. Ban them.
00:39 I love them but my dog doesn't. But I miss all the displays when I was a kid when I used to go to
00:45 Sefton Park and they had a Disney display, it was brilliant wasn't it?
00:49 I do not like fireworks. I don't agree with the fireworks. They're very pet unfriendly.
00:55 Not just your pets that get frightened but also the wild animals. You've got to
01:00 think of the wild animals and then yes there are silent fireworks but then
01:06 you've got to consider all the debris that's left. Where's all that going?
01:10 It's just more pollution. I do not agree with the fireworks at all.
01:14 Children get hurt and they're dangerous. Too dangerous? No. They're too powerful.
01:20 Not what they used to be, they're too powerful. No. You can have fireworks but not bangers.
01:24 They frighten children, they frighten animals, there's no need for them.
01:28 But the nice ones like that, they're fine. But not the bangers. You should ban them.
01:32 Well the bangs are the worst. I mean the pretty ones. I mean I've been abroad, I've
01:37 been in Greece and Italy and I've seen lovely firework displays but not like
01:43 here and like every night this week. Well I've been to Spain when it was like
01:49 about October and like their Halloween goes on for about a month and they're
01:54 always going off there till about December I think even January but they
01:57 don't mess around over there. They have, you know, it's safe. They have different
02:01 countries competing for firework displays and people go and they gather
02:06 all around the pier, watch all these marvellous fireworks. It costs lots of money.
02:12 Why? Just for people to look, have a look and like I said before, all the
02:17 debris, all the money gone to waste, put that money to better use than just watching it.
02:22 Should be harder to buy. Not just little kids in the back gardens or whatever, no.
02:30 They go off in about September because I live by the railway there, you know.
02:34 Disused railway and they set them off all night, frightening the dogs, you know,
02:39 on the cat. It's not fair. There's no doubt in the wrong hands fireworks can
02:44 prove dangerous. Apart from on certain occasions such as Bonfire Night, it's
02:50 against the law for anyone to set off fireworks between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.
02:55 You can also be fined an unlimited amount and even imprisoned for up to six months
03:00 for selling or using fireworks illegally.
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