Two people have been arrested after fireworks were fired into Papakura Lawnmowers in Auckland on Friday morning, injuring at least two people, including a customer struck in the neck.
Thirteen people were inside the shop when the attack occurred, forcing staff to take cover as fireworks exploded through the front door.
The store’s owner Michael Wards told legacy media the situation could have been catastrophic given the presence of fuel and oil, and called for a ban on individual fireworks sales.
The injured have been discharged from hospital, and police have charged two suspects over the dangerous incident.
Should have been banned years ago. And I’m sure every pet owner would agree. Why on earth we celebrate a catholic attempt to blow up the English Parliament centuries ago is a total bloody mystery..!
Yes let’s ban every conceivable thing that anyone could ever use to hurt someone else, surely that’ll make us all happy!!
How’s that working out for the utter Monty Python skit that is the UK? Where they arrest people for carrying sporks.
Maybe the modern British parliament could do with some blowing up. Not saying I agree with Guy Fawkes, but I mean I get it…
Or maybe you can lock your precious doggies up and have a chill while the rest of us enjoy something for once in our miserable existence. I know, God forbid a boomer is ever inconvenienced, perish the thought. But maybe just let us have this one teeny weeny thing, okay?
If they could just be done by 10pm and not set off hydrogen bombs right next to my 1 year old baby girl’s bedroom, that’d be great 👍
It was actually an attempt to blow up parliament by one of the parliamentary factions which was led by “Lord” Henderson. He got cold feet at the last moment and gave up Guido Fawkes for execution. Their primary gripe was against having a Scottish King.
“Lord” Henderson was tried by a jury of his peers (other “Lords”) and walked. Fawkes was tried by a jury of his peers and was hung, drawn and quartered.
Guy Fawkes, captured during the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was subjected to intense interrogation and torture in the Tower of London – showed great resilience – worth a mention.
Initially, he resisted giving up the names of his co-conspirators, showing remarkable physical and psychological endurance.
The use of the rack—an instrument of torture that stretched the body—was authorized by King James I himself, a rare and extreme measure even for that era.
Fawkes held out for two days before finally confessing.
His signature on the confession document is famously shaky and barely legible, a stark testament to the toll the torture took on him.
That signature has become a haunting symbol of both his endurance and the brutality of the punishment.
But Yes I agree it needs to be done away with because after all We are just celebrating a murder – Catholic or not – so reminiscent of the Catholic Church or the Church of England and burning at the stake – all about suppressing dissidence and retaining control.
And not solely for the fact I was woken up twice in a row.
Brings to mind William Tyndale executed in 1536 for translating the Bible into English.
The only difference between Catholicism and the breakaway Church of England during the ‘Reformation’ being in that the King replaced the Pope as ‘Supreme Head of the Church of England’ under Henry V111
Catholic a protestant without a protest.
Protestant a Catholic with a protest.
The Catholic Church – a cult – is a vile and insidious beast which teaches all manner of depravities.
The Beast of Revelation 13:11 “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”
Which gets its power from Satan the Devil like the Beast of Revelation 13:1 – World Government.
I am conflicted. On the one hand I believe that Fawkes, the only man to enter Parliament with honest intent, is worthy of celebration but the manner of it. Igniting paper and gunpowder that terrifies pets, some children and many old folks is moronic.
Guy Fawkes should be a day devoted to reminding Governments that governing is a privilege granted by the consent of the people and you can stick Halloween back up U.S. corporate ass where it came from.
To all the bitter, unhappy and stony old farts demanding another ban of exciting displays and exuberant celebrations: why don’t ya crawl in a hole. You have forgotten and forsaken youth.
Go and be miserable, but let humanity be human, and spare us with your desolate crusty old mindset.
No. (we) have not forgotten or forsaken the joys (mostly) of youth. My most vivid reminder of those times was being blinded in my right eye by a mighty cannon, which exploded in my face. So, think on that.
Yeah right, spin us another one.
I wouldn’t be to quick to dismiss that out of hand, a similar thing happened to me when ‘my mate’ chucked one at my feet, got some serious blisters. Mighty cannons, jumping jacks and double happies were later banned for causing injuries. I know, I know, it’s not the fireworks but the hoons using them. Still, it’s worth consideration..
Yep, sh*t does happen and I do consider.
However, omission of such injury in Mr. ‘Had Enough’s first comment, but pointing to poor pets and a religious mystery, explains my ‘yeah right’.
So pushing the fireworks ban narrative … I see. The fireworks did not throw themselves in the shop. People did. Arrest them. Stop trying to control us. Bad people do bad things with anything. Family fireworks are great fun and not dangerous.
Yes agree, it’s not the gun, but the one who pulls the trigger. But from what I have seen over the years, with reports of personal injury, and fires attributed to fireworks, I think it’s time to review. Perhaps a referendum or survey to assess current attitudes to fireworks in a domestic environment. And perhaps the opinions of firemen and hospital staff should be taken on board. For my part, they would be be no loss, as the big annual events are much better value for money.
Referenda should not be tools to curb personal freedom.
Referenda are to be used to seek political opinion.
I’d support any referendum curbing government rort and parasitism, local or national.
But when you ask me to ban kids and neighbours having a good time, sorry mate, you are alone.