Fireworks - Customs can seize cars
Andy
possession of illegal fireworks - pity the Gardai have not been given the
powers to seize vehicles where people have been speeding, drink/drug
driving, and driving irresponsibly. It seems crazy to me that they don't
impound vehicles for those things but a vehicle can be seized for fireworks!
dino
Customs can seize your car for lots of things.....I've never actually
heard of it happening though
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>Andy said...
>
>> So I hear today that the Customs have the power to seize your vehicle for
>> possession of illegal fireworks - pity the Gardai have not been given the
>> powers to seize vehicles where people have been speeding, drink/drug
>> driving, and driving irresponsibly. It seems crazy to me that they don't
>> impound vehicles for those things but a vehicle can be seized for fireworks!
>>
>
>Customs can seize your car for lots of things.....I've never actually
>heard of it happening though
It's to do with smuggling. I have never heard of a car being seized,
but trucks have been seized from time to time. Customs have some
discretion, but they are generally harder on commercial smuggling.
Smugglers tend to use cheap vehicles that they can afford to lose or
buy back cheaply at the next auction.
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Yet in France you can buy fireworks in the local toyshops whilst in
Ireland Mc Dowell treats them akin to the hardest of drugs...
Andy
"Des O'Donoghue" <des_n...@despod.com> wrote in message
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Fireworks are brilliant used correctly and safely. I don't blame Ireland in
one way banning them because there would be a lot of dangerous fireworks
going around and people using them with no savvy at all and blowing their
hand and faces off!
Last year in November I got some cheap Ryanair flights to Luton and the
whole family went and on November the 5th Luton Borough Council organised a
proper Fireworks show in one of the Towns Park Fields and the fireworks were
spectacular much more expensive fireworks than you would be able to buy for
home use, really professional and there were large speakers in the field
with classical music and the fireworks even seem to go off in
synchronisation with the classical music so when there was a clash of a
cymbal a whole lot of fireworks went off at that time it was really
fantastic. My kids were in awe they had never seen a proper organised
firework display before like that and the adults enjoyed it too. And all
this was funded by Luton council and other sponsors and it was absolutely
free to get in and watch. About 20 minutes or so it lasted and there was a
mini funfair there and hot dog stands and everything.
So, its a shame there is not something similar in Ireland proper organised
Firework displays. I think I hear of one up in Enniskillen but I don't know
what its like. I dare say to have an organised firework display in the
republic you would have to have a proper licence and huge insurance costs so
its most probably a no go.
dino
> So, its a shame there is not something similar in Ireland proper organised
> Firework displays. I think I hear of one up in Enniskillen but I don't know
> what its like.
There's one in Derry every year at Halloween. Bonfire night isn't
celebrated in Ireland....it's an English thing. The Derry Halloween
display is a huge event in the local calendar but I haven't been for
a few years.
> I dare say to have an organised firework display in the
> republic you would have to have a proper licence and huge insurance costs
I'm trying to work out why it wouldn't need a license and insurance?
Strange complaint Andy :)
Andy
"dino" <di-no//REMOVETHIS//@utvinternet.ie> wrote in message
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> Andy said...
>
> > So, its a shame there is not something similar in Ireland proper
organised
> > Firework displays. I think I hear of one up in Enniskillen but I don't
know
> > what its like.
>
> There's one in Derry every year at Halloween. Bonfire night isn't
> celebrated in Ireland....it's an English thing. The Derry Halloween
> display is a huge event in the local calendar but I haven't been for
> a few years.
>
> > I dare say to have an organised firework display in the
> > republic you would have to have a proper licence and huge insurance
costs
>
> I'm trying to work out why it wouldn't need a license and insurance?
> Strange complaint Andy :)
>
> --
No it weren't a complaint (I don't always complain ye know) all I was
getting at is that you would need a licence and insurance (and quite rightly
so as well) but the insurance costs in Ireland are so ridiculously huge for
anything (because people are quick to sue over here!) that it would be out
of reach for most organisations to put on a firework event.
dino
> No it weren't a complaint (I don't always complain ye know)
Just pullin your leg :)
> all I was
> getting at is that you would need a licence and insurance (and quite rightly
> so as well) but the insurance costs in Ireland are so ridiculously huge for
> anything (because people are quick to sue over here!) that it would be out
> of reach for most organisations to put on a firework event.
And rightly so. Any organisation able to put on a large scale and
worthy demonstration should be well able to cover the insurance and
license fees. These things are best left to the professionals anyway
and funded by CoCos, etc. Not that many of them bother though!
Derry (if it hasn't degraded over the years) is worth a trip at
Halloween.
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