or my neighbor's car backfire,

or when I eat rice crispies, they go snap crackle and pop

So do my knees Ray...lol

Ray

Where is that YUM !!! avatar ???

... that seems to have gone off with a bang

Spoilsport 

Just look at what Cranky is saying

hahaha Cranks :)

Found out he's a stripper Abby, got enough troubles without being labelled "dancing man" !!

We like a hot man ... makes your legs tremble

How much more do you know about "they can be brought in from interstate"? 

Which state(s)?

There is no mayhem in my streets. I don't think that line was very helpful.

Barak -  I've been told it is quite easy to buy the fireworks from Canberra. I don't know which business, but a friend said, you have to go around the shop in the laneway and they bring them out to you. I'm told also some Chinese businesses sell them, they love fireworks.

Absolutely correct Hola...and not only in Canberra. Only this year a grocery store in  Footscray was caught selling fireworks illegally to the public. The owner was prosecuted along with 66 others during the course of the year.

Most of the offences seem to have occured in Melbourne...

Sandi, it's not quite what it seems. Fireworks can only be legally bought in the NT on Territory Day, and can only be used that night. If you look at the bottom of the page, you will see reference to Territory Day. A click on the "About Fusion" link at the top will make it clearer.

I was in Alice recently in the period leading up to that date, and saw lots of advertising like that website. It doesn't mean fireworks are freely available. (But there's obviously good profit in them.)

Apparently one can let off fireworks but you need a licence to do it.  I don't know where the idiots around me get them from but last New Year's Eve sounded like we were being invaded, the poor dogs were petrified.

Barak, it doesn't stop people buying them at that time and keeping them to use for whenever they want especially if they are tourists &/or have friends living there.

There's people in our area that have visitors from NT regularly.  The black market flourishes.

Hola to get a permit (at least here in SA) you need a special Licence to have fireworks and you have had to have done a special course and passed examinations for a Licence to get permission.

You need to front up with your Licence and you have to fill out a sheet of information where,what,when, how, why.

My son had his Licence  for the Hockey Club for a number of years and it has to be kept current every year for a fee.

:) You're a worry Monika. Very funny.

However, seriously, hope Barak and others find some solutions to the detonation of illegal fireworks in their area.

Be nice if Barak said thank you to members who posted an empathetic or realistically helpful post after his initial request re illegal private fireworks:

"Any suggestions on what to do about them?"

RnR I wish they could find some way of stopping them.  We quite frequently have someone letting them off about 11pm at night.  They just do a few and then do more on another night.

I don't have a dog anymore, but they used to terrify him.

Unless you can find out which house they are coming from you don't have much luck reporting.  Most councils are not open at 11 pm at night and I think our police forces are too thin on the ground to do anything.

I'm so over this illegal fireworks practice - am minding a relatives dog, staffy, who is a nervous wreck as evening approaches due to the random fireworks - doesn't matter if it's a fair distance away, the dog freaks out.  

Why would you not take your dog inside ???

The dog WAS inside.

All the illegal fireworks were in full swing near my place. I thought I was living in Bagdad. On the news yesterday the reporter was talking about the fireworks and opened up a couple of wheelie bins and all the used ones were there. It is a mystery, where did they come from?

BARAK,   sit somewhere where its quiet and have the dog with you,   keep your doors closed,   and shut the windows,   try to muffle any sound,     try and play a game with the dog when they are going off,    keep him occupied    and he may not even hear them,    they are a pain,  i know,    fortunatly my dog doesnt care,   but my last dog was terrirfied,   take it into the house WELL BEFORE they start,    and dont YOU get aggitated,   as the dog will pick up from you, 

Are you completely off your brain tonight?

These are ILLEGAL fireworks. The morons using them don't letterbox the neighbourhood with their planned schedule of letting them off. So how can I do ANYTHING "well before they start"?

This dog, like most dogs, has great hearing. It can hear the fireworks from inside the house!

And I would like society to find another way of celebrating things. Fireworks are so passe. Stop giving dickheads the idea that fireworks are THE publicly endorsed way of celebrating anything.

Two idiots killed by illegal fireworks, natural selection at its best.  As far as taking your dog inside, I take it you have absolutley nothing to do with dogs to make a statement like that, your house would have to be R3 insulated with no gaps and every window would have to be double or triple glazed for this to work and even then I am not sure it would.

Here's an idea from left field, how about the idiots who are breaking the law, stop breaking the law, or if they find the lure of explosives so strong, let them be charged with possesion of illegal explosive devices and as such maybe subject to anti terrorism laws.  It would not be the first time the government stretched the use of these laws to get a result.

And if anyone is going to ask me if I think animals are more important than humans, my answer will be "it depends on the quality of the humans".

apologies barak,   i thought you were talking about the fireworks in the city,    i got mixed up with another post,        yes,   the illegal ones are more than a nuicese,     we spoke of them before,       unless your council can do something,   which is unlikely,      reporting to the police is your only option,   but i wouldnt expect much help from them either,  

Radish 

The mutt muffs look brilliant

Give anyone who can get my Westi cross to keep a pair of these on for more than 10 seconds the keys to my car. LOL

exPS, maybe they come in all different sizes and perhaps they have some way of keeping them on....lOL.

Yes, I can imagine some dogs not liking them.  It always amuses me when I see dogs wearing sunglasses and some dont seem to mind at all :)

This fella has the whole box and dice  LOL