Na de dood van een 14-jarige jongen in Rotterdam, als gevolg van een tragisch vuurwerkincident, is voor burgemeester Carola Schouten de maat vol: voer een landelijk vuurwerkverbod in. Ze krijgt volop bijval.
Een man uit Tiel is woensdag overleden aan zijn verwondingen na een explosie met zwaar vuurwerk op Oudejaarsavond. Hij is de tweede die overlijdt aan de gevolgen van een vuurwerkincident. Eerder kwam een veertienjarige jongen in Rotterdam om het leven.
Oud en Nieuw: Na volgens de politie „heftige incidenten” en twee dodelijke slachtoffers door vuurwerk pleiten burgemeesters opnieuw voor een landelijk verbod. Lokale verboden hebben volgens hen niet geleid tot minder incidenten en zijn moeilijk te handhaven.
@PatrickHerd @Sustainable2050 oh, that stuff will be hard to ban since it's an officially recognized tradition. Normal firework isn't.
But you know... Pretty much all incidents with fireworks is from already illegal fireworks. A ban is useless. What are you gonna do? Make it even more illegal?
@Sustainable2050 Here in Ireland we have probably the strictest laws against private firework purchase and possession in the EU. But huge numbers of people just illegally import them anyway, so it still sounds like a warzone every Hallowe'en and New Year's Eve.
Dublin Fire Brigade received almost 500 calls to fires and over 400 emergency ambulance calls on Halloween last night, with paramedics also responding to a number of hand and facial injuries caused by fireworks across the capital.
@Sustainable2050 And what you don't mention, all the people who were cowering in the smallest, closest, more close closet in their house, whimpering and shrieking at every bang and boom.
I was one of them.
(But I'm glad some people had their righteous fun, my mental health doesn't count compared to that.)
@LPerry2 @Sustainable2050 They would really be better off setting up a place for people to light off fireworks.
When I was a kid there were small fireworks, stuff that shot sparks, firecrackers, etc. Now there are large mortar shells and huge bangs going off.
Banning it obviously didn't work.
@LPerry2 Is that where all those really big fireworks are coming from? I figured people were trucking in the mortar cakes from Nevada or Arizona or Indian reservations.
There seem to be a lot of big bangers that are federally illegal, so Mexico makes sense.
As for liability, we need to bring back the concept of At Your Own Risk. This would apply to fireworks, racetracks for public use, as well as things like tripping on psychedelics. Many things are safer if done in a controlled environment.
@Sustainable2050 I think I'm not allowed to say that in the Netherlands, professional fireworks 🎇 had more severe victims then the public fireworks. #Enschede.
Also not to be said, the alternatives like bonfire 🔥 or 'playing around with the police 🚓' is even worse.
So, I'll be 🤐
@MaSiKa69 @Sustainable2050 Also, I think that transgressive rituals like NYE fireworks and bonfires are on a sort of treadmill. If you crack down on one, others will emerge ("waterbedeffect" in 🇳🇱 ). Koningsdag/nacht has become rowdier over the years. Other transgressive dates like Luilak have disappeared from the calendar.
I think this is a kind of stupid you can't fix. But trying will antagonize people.
@Sustainable2050 Five people died in Germany many, including children, were injured. It's time to stop that madness.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/europe/germany-fireworks-new-year-deaths-intl/index.html
Totally sucks…
@Sustainable2050 Fireworks should NOT be banned. They should be heavily regulated, and require training, and certification to be able to purchase this stuff - and obviously, under-18s should not be allowed to purchase or operate fireworks or pyrotechnics in general.
Heck, just copy the USA, they divide fireworks into two main classes: (old: Class B, new:) 1.3G / Display Fireworks (large, professional fireworks), and (old: Class C, new:) 1.4G / Consumer Fireworks (small, consumer fireworks)
Here's a handy page on this stuff: https://fireworksland.com/fun-stuff/fireworks-classifications
@Sustainable2050 kids of 13 and 14 are not allowed to light fireworks anyway, so what they lacked was parental oversight.
The stuff that was used in this case is already illegal, so again parental oversight.
A lot of fireworks has been regulated, but the failure lies with parents and a lack of enforcement.
We need to do better, I totally agree. But a fireworks ban will not be effective until two generations have died out.
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