Dutch Fireworks Regulations are Weird...
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Only Posy could use that footage we all have of fireworks that we never look at again.
Idk what you are talking about, anytime I’ve filmed fireworks it’s way over exposed, my footage hasn’t ever looked as good as his lol.
@@andrewevenson2657Yep, all of my fireworks footage consists of thin streaks of light going up followed by seizure inducing flashing colours and blown out audio.
maybe he will make a video of a concert and uses footage from a concert that nobody looks at
Loool so accurate
@@Postbus22haha to be fair I capture good footage at concerts and usually find a way to integrate it with a recap video
The most wildly unsafe fireworks display I ever saw was in Amsterdam for new year's 1999. MASSIVE rockets and shells being propped up against the memorial in the middle of the town square, and they'd shoot in random directions, bounce off of buildings, and back into the crowd where they'd explode. People didn't care. At one point, someone lit off a string of firecrackers that seemed like it went off for five minutes straight... everyone fell silent and stopped firing anything off until it finally ran its course, at which point the crowd ROARED with cheers and went back to being incredibly unsafe. People were just lighting things off in the sea of humanity, tossing explosives around willy nilly, doing everything completely wrong. Paramedics kept coming in to the square area and treating people who got hurt.
It was the most life-affirming display of irresponsibility and drunken disregard for safety I've ever seen.
Life is a risk. Get over it. It what makes existing interesting.
@@IntegerOfDoom Tell that to the people you've injured when it happens
@@IntegerOfDoom lol this is extremely reductive
As a Dutchman I am used to Dutch people and fireworks. While I don't like it, most people seem to at least put things like rockets into bottles nowadays. Decades of public education seem to have worked.
My worst experience was Berlin in 2015/2016. People lighting fireworks and then tossing them into the air above crowds so that they explode above other people or people shooting rockets from balconies... only for them to explode when they hit the building on the other side of the street. All while being drunk out of their minds.
There is a reason why my friends from Berlin told me they all flee Berlin during NYE.
@@IntegerOfDoom theres a point where the excitement turns into fear and if we can prevent that we should
The fact that guns/firearms are sometimes easier/cheaper to get than fireworks in the USA is wild. Legally that is.
Was selling fireworks this year. Some old guy came with a bag of fireworks asking if he can give them to us for disposal. As we do take in unused or faulty units, we took the bag. It contained fireworks that haven't been even made in 15 years. One of the guys decided to have a little fun this new years and took the bag home.
Wow Jay, what an incredibly riveting story 🙄
@@Gravy_Masterwow what an incredibly riveting reply 🙄
such a heinous crime, not standing next to tubes designed to shoot fire and explode
I suppose in the minds of the lawmakers it prevents people making remote control bombs. If that were the case, a better law would be to allow remote igniters that are wired only, no radio, infrared, or the like that could allow a bad actor to strap an explosive to a car, for example.
A similar line of thinking exists in UK knife law, which prohibits folding knives that can be deployed quickly with a flick or a spring mechanism, or knives disguised as other objects (the example given is disguised as a mobile phone). The line of thinking is to make it hard not to telegraph that you are drawing a weapon.
@@dafoex In Dutch law, these kind of knives are prohibited too. The remote controls are technically not illegal but only legal to used by fireworks companies doing professional shows. One of the reasons for that is because they are regular used to fire shells and shells are illegal for private use too. If these controls were legal to use by public, the chance of people building too large packages of fireworks because they don't know/understand the dangers of large quantities of explosives together or firing professional fireworks (i.e. shells) in too dense areas is foreseen.
I'm from China, had so much fun growing up playing fireworks during the Spring Festival. In recent years however, the city where I lived regulated against fireworks in densely populated area. I totally understand that, and you can still have as much fun as you want in suburbs. But the whole festival just feels a bit empty without the cathartic fun and stunning visuals of fireworks. Man, I miss those days in middle school when I could gather my friends and collect our pocket money to do a big firework "show" in the street.
Im confident that they'll return in some years because everyone likes them, we as a species just need to figure out how to make them safe
Nothing in life is safe. Maybe the safety can be improved, but I think people are irrationally afraid of fireworks. If you're sober and sane and able to run away from the fireworks, they're not very dangerous. Certainly a lot less dangerous than they could be. And if remote-controlled fireworks were legal, that'd make it way safer. @@nemtudom5074
Continental China?
@@taisato2091 yep
oh okay! Isn't there a firewall that blocks people from continental china from accesing the rest of the World wide web or is that just a myth? Or are u a VPN kind of person@@ma_er233
This shot from 2016 with the moon is just beautiful.
moon?
@@pcrolandhu 2:40
I think we have similar weird regulations here in Norway, the only smaller fireworks you can see here are sticks that kids hold and they spark downwards slowly. Rockets are completely banned and you usually only see large boxes of fireworks, nothing small and fun anymore. Really good video as always! You’re the only channel that makes me turn on my tv and sound system specifically for your videos! ❤
I tihnk it is because big fireworks are just less affordable and it is less likely for someone to buy a ton of them and then annoy ppl throughought long times.
You can launch the big ones once and then wel... you do not have more.
Instead you could have ppl buy more of the small ones and shoot at random time of the month and make noise.
Generally i think it is quite a good law.
@@wydua2049 Another Norwegian here, and some arguments that are used towards banning single rockets is that they are more likely to fall over and hit someone compared to a big box with a huge flat base. They are also a lot easier to willingly aim towards someone as they can be easily held with one arm (though possibly burning yourself in the progress).
@BlackM3sh so in other words the safety blackshirts once again ruining things for everyone because they want to control everything?
Typical
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They actually banned rockets? Here in Finland you can still get them, but the trend is that the "boxes" are taking over. People just like them more.
I still remember setting off 'muggescheetjes' in the 70s. ;-)
Posy has every hobby on the planet.
Is he a bodybuilder?
That's a bit odd to conclude. Literally every boy had his own fireworks stash.
@lennartjuhh
I didn't.
@@TheBcoolGuy --Just you wait!--
omg miles edgeworth is a posy fan? cool
It is basically the same thing here in Japan. I once looked into getting a license way back in 2000 and the hoops that you have to jump through was just ridiculous.
Really? I thought fireworks was sold almost year round in Convience stores, atleast F2 type. Correct me if i'm wrong
@@CarpetHatermight be talking about licenses to make them or light some types off year round. could be wrong though
Huh! I was astonished in Kyoto at what people were setting off in the street, nothing like I'd ever seen in the US (but maybe just haven't lived in the right parts).
it's not the same thing in japan in japan even the one shoot aerial firewors are alowed to the publick best part themulti shoot cakes are illegal how ironic :D even the rockets and smaller firecrackers are still legal in japan there are lot of fireworks shops in Tokyo to..
@@queenkurumi8504I was talking about license for storage, transportation and handling, manufacture, sale and operation of rocket engines, chrysanthemums etc, not senko hanabi, roman candles, bakuchiku or other consumer fireworks. In the U.S. you can manufacture fireworks or build model rocket engines or what ever. Also, in the U.S. at least in my state they made mortars, chrysanthemums etc. all legal now!
Your argument about larger fireworks being intrinsically dangerous (because of physics) while smaller ones are extrinsically dangerous (because people are foolish and bad-natured) is interesting. We were talking about similar restrictions in other parts of the world this morning. Happy New Year to you!
Except that people can still misuse the large fireworks, a 2KG NEM compound is gonna do many times more damage than a tiny firecracker or baby rocket.
I'm glad my neighbors put so much money into fireworks cause I sure as hell wouldn't pay thousands for a few seconds of fun
If you're paying thousands of dollars for a few seconds of enjoyment with fireworks, you've bought a single firework that you are not qualified to use. That or you don't know that you're not supposed to use gasoline to light your fireworks. That's the only way you're setting off that many fireworks in a few seconds. I recommend you don't go around fireworks at all, until you understand them better.
@@northernsnow6982 tru
he probably doesnt mean seconds literally. probably minutes @@northernsnow6982
@@northernsnow6982 my guess is it's not thousands of dollars, but thousands of chech korunas, rubles or forints (but it's like everything costs thousands in hungary) or any other country besides ones in eu or na
also OP might not know the cost of fireworks cuz they never bought one
@@ser_igel when you're talking about currencies where it costs $200-2500 of their local money, just to buy a meal at McDonald's, a few thousand on some small fireworks isn't crazy. I imagine if they were talking about these places, with these currencies, the number they said wouldn't have only been "thousands". That or their neighbours only buy one small firework, or a pack of firecrackers.
This is obviously a case of this person doesn't understand anything at all, about fireworks. It's a good thing they don't buy the smallest of fireworks. Not until they get educated on them enough to understand even more than just the price.
I love seeing people's random side passions it's so interesting
Here in Minnesota (US), all large fireworks are banned. The only ones we are legally allowed to purchase are small snap-its and fountains and stuff.
However, as far as I'm aware, the law only disallows the selling of large fireworks, so everyone drives the short drive to Hudson, Wisconsin and purchases massive fireworks displays there. Fireworks are obviously a huge thing in the US, so for the 4th of July, practically everyone does this.
31 december is our day, we get our biggest fireworks in belgium or germany, thats a 1 hour drive for us
I’ve been down to the Roseau Independence Day fair from Canada multiple times, you Americans really know how to put on a fireworks show.
It always strikes me as weird how laws in the US can usually be circumvented by just going to a neighbouring state and committing the crime in a place where it's legal. For anyone else that would be like going to another country to buy something illegal and then trying to smuggle it past customs.
Explains the trajectory of Minnesota and what is currently happening to it
Georgia where I live used to be like that when I was a kid, we would all go to south or north Carolina and get the good stuff. Thankfully nowadays we can get it all down here.
I live in germany close to the dutch border, it's crazy how many dutch people come here at 6 or 7 in the morning just to buy fireworks for new years xD
I working Hamburg on a ship and I am thinking to go to Germany for the holidays, but if I stay in Germany is it legal to have fireworks in a house that I can rend for the holiday's?
@@jasoneleftheriou8261 it's not illegal to own fireworks, you're just not allowed to set them off outside of new years (eve)
The reason big boxes aren't banned is because they are so much easier to operate safely, and because they go so high, there is little risk of hitting houses and trees. Just put them on the ground, light the fuse and run a safe distance away. Handheld fireworks and fireworks that look like they are hand held are much easier for people to hurt themselves with, which is why even the smaller ones are sometimes banned.
In general, there will be a lot of drunk people lighting these things, so it's all about minimizing the odds of user error.
And 10x more expensive aren't they?
Exactly what i was thinking. However ive seen a tipped over box and then it gets quite bad pretty quickly, however i also believe that single rockets are more dangerous to the average dumb and drunk silvester guy
The trash is also a big problem, smaller fire works are mostly made of paper, But in bigger fireworks it is easier to make the the stars and shells with plastic, thus making the trash problem much worse as all of this plastic gets shredded to small pieces that we can't clean up.
its made from concrete or cartboard@@noahgeerdink5144
a box is pretty mutch impossible to tip after being lit@@D3nn1s
Always so fun to see another Nederlander on TH-cam! I'm Dutch as well!
I'm from Ukraine, and i remember in 2013 at New Year night fireworks were exploding for like an hour. And now there are real explosions, and I think I will not see fireworks as an art form any time soon. But I glad you guys do, shoot some fireworks for me:)
On the bright side, the US military makes a lot of money. So at least there is always 1 winner
Yeah, this video made me realise how much I miss fireworks. Since, they're all illegal now technically, I'm not sure when will be the next time we see them
Hoping 2024 will be good for you all
@@Rem_NLlmao
@@RobotronSageI really doubt it. More and more politicians are turning their backs on Ukraine. Most are starting to lean to "give Russia the part they've captured"
Fireworks WERE my childhood, and new year's eve was the most important day of the year.
Well, i will never end this hobby.
And i have been doing it for 40 years.
And i havent's even started yet
Just yesterday I was thinking to myself: I wonder when Posy will release his next video. It's been a while since I enjoyed a new video from him.
And so here we are now.
I was in Amsterdam in 2022 on new year eve.
Well i think those laws were not followed that that night.
Fireworks are also illegal in many cities in the US. Nobody cares and it’s not really enforced, especially on 4th of July
They don’t check it so ima go boom like crazy
Boeie
I have fond memories of small fireworks like firecrackers, fountains, and those spinning ones on the ground being lit in my grandma's patio in Mexico when I was a kid. Small fireworks that you watch from much closer were more fun to me than seeing large fireworks at a distance.
Same story in the UK. Small, cheap fireworks like bangers and mini rockets were banned in the 90s because of misuse. But we can buy F3 shot tube barrage with 1kg of powder. I still miss the bangers .
Bangers illegal in Hungary to but we always get them and using them 😁
@queenkurumi8504 yes ,we could buy from Europe when we was part of the union. From bomba shop from pyro market .not any more 😔
That multi-color fountain was pretty sweet.
People misused the old smaller fireworks due to people being drunk and irresponsible, now they all have been banned and you can only buy heavy grade (legal) fireworks that can cause instant death or even maiming somebody if misused, i miss the firecrackers and the small whistle rockets from back in the day, its sad that so many good things get ruined by people misusing them.
I now mainly just buy fountains or the small crackling balls for the new years, happy new year to you!
nothing is ruined my god man stupid laws don't need to be enforced we buy firecrackers illegally and use them the same way :) the government don't limit me with ridiculous prohibitions ...
growing up i learned a language that i never use... but realized recently i can understand videos in dutch, which is the most random thing ever but fantastically useful, suddenly.
strange laws here in Slovenia too!
The country has a ban on firecrackers no matter how big or how small whilst still allowing giant firework batteries. And a lot of fireworks companies bypass this ban by marking them as scaring devices for hunters!
Same in Hungary firecrackers banned sinc 2005 but we not care so every year many hungarians using them now they lagalized p1 category firecrackers for publick
I really think that fireworks are a world of art especially firework shows and also that one time I made a 5 second short of a small firework doing so much
Fireworks that should be legal:
Rockets (small and big)
Firecrackers with up to 3 grams of flashpowder
Salute/ noise fireworks
Cakes F2-F4
Single shots up to 3”
Shells up to1,75”
Smoke bombs
Fountains
Roman candles
Fireworks that should be illegal:
Round/ triangular cakes
Firecrackers like the cobra 8 or profi big boy
That legal one with 60 rockets needs The 1812 Overture playing over it.
It's never been so quiet in the days leading up to new year's eve. In my city, it used to be really excessive in the whole of december. Fire crackers being set off any day of the month, scaring our indoor cats, and the dogs of people walking their dogs outside. Couple dozen street signs blown up with bundled together fireworks or illegally imported ones too each time. A square near our local shopping centre now has huge lighting and camera towers, because of the destruction caused in the previous years to the asphalt and to the windows of the nearby sports centre.
Although the current legal fireworks are still loud as hell, at least the intermittent bangs of the firecrackers are now almost totally gone, and replaced by maybe one or two people in my area setting off a big multishot box somewhere in the evening - after which peace returns again. So far, it's a huge improvement.
I'm so happy, it's genuinely a huge quality of life improvement. I hope people don't ruin the rest of the fireworks by doing things in excess.
I'm celebrating with some little fountains and what's called in perfect chinglish 'ground bloom flowers'. I'm against a blanket ban, but very happy about the ban on firecrackers. In a country with 18 million people on an area the size of a postage stamp, your personal freedom to do things ends, where the freedom of others to not be too heavily bothered by something starts.
Sad days now. It used to be way more interesting and exciting. People could just not own dogs if they are worried about scaring them. The noisier like a bomb, the nicer, I don't even care about colours. 😊
@@ligametis are you really saying that only people who don't care about their dogs feelings should own dogs?
@@ligametis I remember riding to and from work on my bicycle while being attacked by people tossing firecrackers at my feet.
I am NOT sad that those days are over.
The problem isnt the "firecrackers" you are talking about. The problem are the illigal bangers like a cobra6/8 and stuff like that... sadly enough people still think these big bangs are firecrackers.. All because they get misinfo from the interent
@@ligametisdumbest self-centered comment I ever read...
You HAVE to go to Japan then Posy, they have the best fireworks shows!
I do have to say, I think roman candles where used more as a handheld firework launcher then something you put into the ground. but even with those people around the fireballs from a roman candle couldn't do anything dangerous unless u where to fire it directly into someones naked eye.
Firework laws in Malta are strange, too. Purchase and possession of ALL fireworks is illegal, from tiny bangers to rockets. However, you can get a fireworks license (which is a hard and lengthy process) and you can manufacture your own fireworks with basically no limitations. This leads to enormous mortars which range from a few centi-meters to almost a meter in diameter. There are still a lot of regulations on when and where you can light them, and you can't sell them to anyone else, but the fact that these huge, self-made fireworks are legal but small firecrackers aren't is a mystery.
That sounds messy and dangerous.
Same in the UK, all the small cheap fun fireworks are banned yet you can legally buy monster size rockets and almost professional displays in a huge box lit by one fuse which creates up to two minutes earth shattering boom after boom, crazy ridiculous laws and regulations.
bigger fireworks = more expensive = more taxes
i was in berlin for a ney years celebration around ten years ago. it was a crazy hell of unregulated fireworks on the streets. i thought half of the city would go up in flames and hospitals would be overrun by burn victims with perforated ears. i served as a combat engineer in the army and heard my share of explosions and i did not feel safe for myself or my girlfriend on those streets. i saw people getting shot by fireworks that stuck in clothing or hair and then explode. problem is you can't really tell who is shooting them. most of the time its kids who run away into the crowd
In the mid '90s my uncle lost all his windows because of that. He had an illegal roll (wheel barrow sized) but just after he put them outside, drunken fools began firing small fireworks randomly. We were pushed away from the windows and that was a wise policy, because it ignited the roll and blew up everything.
Then in my first bought house, we had similar kids in the area around my house. In 2019 they threw a Cobra (mainly from Italy or Germany, Italy happily deals in them. Criminals strap them together for bombings too) on my balcony and blew out two of my windows. The curtains caught the flying glass, but otherwise... Our baby's crib was in that room.
And police do nothing at all about such bombings because 'We can't chase every bang, there's so many'. So being terrified by weekly bombings at night from roughly august to april kept up. I started to learn a pattern and that they liked to move between the two areas of social housing where they and their friends live and wake up everybody twice.
So in 2020 when one first detonated around 1AM, I went outside and lay in wait. The idiot came back for round 2 at roughly 3 AM and he detonated a cobra 12, he was jumped by a masked man and savagely beaten with a large stick, basically crippling him. Guy took half an hour to pick himself up and stumble away. Still blood on the ground the next day. 😆
Anyway, it isn't right or ideal, but necessary. That worked a lot better than completely impotent police and weak courts that let even murderers off with a warning, and after crippled man had told his dumb thug-friends his story it was mostly quiet nights ever since.
I moved out of the area and it's been much better ever since. Sure this area also has idiots, but posh idiots tend to be mostly a danger to themselves and seem aware that neighbours won't stand for any nonsense towards them.
When I was in Amsterdam, I was almost badly injured by one of these street fireworks on New Years Eve and I saw another one set a car alight. So many people get injured every year and a few have been killed. I love them and I agree it's an artform, but I think it's totally crazy that they're allowed on densely populated streets 🤣
The takeaway? Do things that you want NOW before the are illegal lol
That OBVIOUSLY excludes criminal acts, for the rebellious among us
It's really funny how you listed the plastic shells dropping as your reasoning behind stopping fireworks (on a big scale) but underlaid footage of a whistle cake, which is exactly what produces said shells, while taking about "good small fireworks".
But yeah I also hate those small whistle cakes with a passion
I now understand why the Austin Powers movies make fun of the freaky deaky Dutch
Even 20 years ago, I remember seeing an individual in Korea set off fireworks at a park near his apartment.
Seeing it again, it feels like a festival to start the new year!
Happy New Year~
You only once saw someone light fireworks? And that was 20 years ago and has since sticked with you? That's a bit sad tbh 😢
@@lennartjuhhThat guy lighting up is most likely still in prison.
how the heck do you have a tiny little rocket from 30 years ago? I'm so jealous when people have all that old thingamajigs laying around full of memories. my mom would've thrown it away so many times.
That was a great year, Posy
The way you've made the last video on your channel this year was also clever!
Keep it up!
The remote you used is the cheapest brand available. It isn't safer than lighting by hand. The reason being that they all operate on the same frequency so if your neighbor would have the same system you would have a big problem.
Most fireworks are illegal where I live but on the 4th of July the cops disappear so everyone does them and it's a great time.
Man, I am Swedish and I remember as a kid lighting those little green plastic balls. I think it's ridiculous for any firework that isn't a bomb to be illegal for an adult to use.
I got to experience new year’s fireworks in Germany years ago. It was amazing and I’m thankful I had that experience
Jeez still remember playing with all that when i was young shooting roman candles at each other
Only now I understood how much I miss seeing fireworks in Kyiv 😢
Incredible video as always!
In my lifetime (born early 80's) domestic fireworks have been entirely illegal here. But this is Australia - around this time of year it's often 40ºC here! Bushfires! So it's fair enough, I understand. It would be lovely to experience them in a cold snowy place though. There are still free to view large public fireworks displays however. And there are occasionally naughty people who manage to set off some smaller illegally imported ones from time to time.
In Belgium we used to get our fireworks in the Netherlands but now the Dutch come here to get fireworks
Zo zonde dat ze oudjaarsdag hebben afgeschaft. Het was altijd mijn favoriete dag van het jaar.
I totally agree with you. Plus, I used to buy for about EUR 20 and have fun all evening and still have some leftovers. Beautiful as the modern fireworks are, I don't feel like spending EUR 35 for 30 seconds of fun.
Used on one day of the year at public shows, they are charming. But I live in East Los Angeles, and by the time July is over I never want to see or hear another firework ever again.
We have similar fireworks rules in denmark. Regarding roman candles, the issue with them is that many people use them handheld and shoots towards other people with them.
These firework collection pictures with bottle rockets, roman candles and old firecrackers make me remember my childhood so much. Back then the local store in our village always had a closet with some small fireworks like fountains, bottle rocket bundles and fountains, even in the summer. I remember almost every time when my dad and I went to that store, he let me get a bundle with 50 bottle rockets for like 50 cents. I used to be so fascinated about these small rockets, even if they had no effects. 😊
You could build damn good traps with remote controls
There is a pretty damn clear difference. One of these would be nearly impossible to ignite while holding and the other would be ridiculously easy. Just because they have a big shower of sparks doesn’t mean it isn’t going to actually hurt more people
Same rules in Norway :) maximum 1kg gunpowder per battery, which the dealers solve by chaining them together with external fuses and selling them in shipping boxes.
in germany everthing over 500g of nec is illegal for normal persons
Gelukkig nieuwjaar! Bedankt voor alle inspirerende videos! :)
01:55 Whistling Moon Travellers (with report) !!!
The Dutch: No small booms 😤
Also The Dutch: Only big booms 👀
Most of the fun fireworks are banned in NC, so everyone (and I mean everyone) makes the pilgrimage to Tennessee for the 4th of July to buy vans full's of fireworks, to shot off back in NC. It's illegal, but everyone and there brother does it and the cops don't bother arresting anybody, because they would have to arrest literally everybody if they enforced the law.
"From when i was 13 years old" 1:42
That means that Posy is either 43 or 44 years old.
3:20 fireworks never go off without igniting them. You have nothing to worry about.
Finally, a video of fireworks that actually gets watched. So many get filmed to never be seen again
I understand dutch law, the big ones are beautiful to watch, the small ones are just pain in the ear, especially for dogs and small children. Maybe banning is too harsh but still I prefer seeing a light show and not having to close my ears. Of course, everything should be handled by responsible person, no matter the size of the fireworks.
The fun thing is the bang
@@darkr1ze48the bang is too short to be fun.
@@gentuxableBruh you talk about the pity Rotjes right remember the Cobras never alowed 😉 So the stupid police blaming an absolute harmless stuff instead of an illegal Cobra 😉 Don't talk nonsense in normal countries with non-liberal fascist leadership, none of them are banned, rockets and baby rockets and smaller firecrackers are legal here, people are not treated like children in my homeland
@@gentuxable Bang is fun firecrackers are the most popular in Europe almost everywhere and no one cares that they are illegal in few countries and firecrackers are used all the time no matter what :)
@@queenkurumi8504 well we could argue the same with cigarettes, for some it is fun, for others it is disturbing.
In Italy the old regulation was more light than now, as we're aligned to the European cat's F1, F2...
Please consider that in Italy, to buy an F3 battery or firecracker you need a fire license (as a gun! which costs around 400€ per year) which is totally absurd. With our old regulation an F3 was sold to everyone more than 18 years old.
I think that more authorities shrink the laws, more illegal fireworks will be made and sold and that's not good!
Not to mention nowadays everyone who wanted hard stuff in italy they buy it on the Mafia they produce so many illegal large firecrackers and yes black market still growing but this fire licence useles law is not a problem I mean we are talking about italy which you can get every large F4 fireworks very easy
Oh so that footages from the HDR video and "all sounds are sine wave" is from this, nice
Happy new year 🥳
I was in Amsterdam for this new year celebration and it was crazy, I arrived 1 week prior and every day all day there would be fireworks every now and then, lots of kids playing with firecrackers too. At midnight it was crazy to stand on a tall rooftop in the center of Amsterdam and anywhere I looked it was all fireworks. Best new year celebration so far, will for sure go there again if I can
Come to Valencia during the Fallas, your mind will be blown. Maybe literally too.
Where I live, there's always a pretty good show over a lake, and the cardboard from the fireworks has landed on me numerous times.
You make a good point. All the unique items are being banned, so we end up just going for the biggest of the legal ones. You could once fill your room with plenty of different articles and it would be just the legal storage limit. Now you can get a bunch of cakes and too easily go way beyond what should be in a home.
When I was a kid (in Turkey), sparklers, small rockets and firecrackers were selling in every general stores. It seems became illegal to sell in general stores after 2006. I liked sparklers and crackers the most. I was scared to light myself anything that flies uncontrollable or bangs, so I was buying those and sometimes giving to other kids to let them light it. It was cheap and kids were able to buy with their pocket moneys. After 30 years of bad economy plus the loss of local productions, no kid can buy anything with their pocket money, nevermind the toys, balls and things for street level entertainment which they cannot eat, they can't even buy chips, chocolates or drinks anymore. Being a kid nowadays is harder than being a kid 30 years ago I think.
in germany, these big fireworks are legal, but people still buy suff from polamd or czechia. yesterday, i saw someone light 50 giant firecrackers tied. together! Btw, they were bought like that, from czechia. afterwards, 4 still exploded, when someone lighted them.
When the label says "enkelschotsbuis" its VERY ILLEGAL AND DANGEROUS but when the exact same product' label says "mine" its okay 😂😂😂
Lesli Netherlands: single shots, firecrackers and rockets are DANGEROUS!
Lesli Germany: 🦗🦗🦗
These say "Front toward enemy" which seems a little odd...
single shots? dangerous. single shots with 3 bangs? fine🤣
@@kaasmeester5903
Ah, those are anti-tokkie fireworks. Whenever a tokkie deploys fireworks, you aim that at them, press the button, and they won't be committing fraud on their disability check any longer. 😉
So that's where the funny accent came from
"these fireworks are ilegal"
mexico: haha cuetes go brrrrrr
im not kidding one firework that is literally made of tnt is selling like hot bread here lmao in the market
Very happy to say that I was smiling wide by the end of the video. Really captured the magic of them and one can really feel your passion for them!
Happy New Year!
Gandalf would be disappointed in the regulations, but proud of Posy
I lost one of my fingers in a firework accident when I was 12. I was holding a roman candle, as people typically do in the US. It detonated inside the tube, burning both of my hands badly and maiming my left hand. They were able to save my ring finger, which never regained all of its mobility, but too much was missing from my pinky finger, so they had to amputate what was left.
Not long after my accident, my city completely banned all fireworks. You may think that I would be relieved that people would be protected from the injuries I suffered, but I was actually quite saddened. I miss lighting of fireworks with my family and seeing everyone in my city do the same. This may seem odd to some of you, but the freedom to do as I please and be solely responsible for my own safety is worth more than all of my fingers. After all, it happened on the 4th of July, a day about liberty and independance; values that any truly patriotic American hold dearly.
Glad to hear that sentiment. You're a tough man. It's about making your own decisions, taking your own risks. Why should gov't live our lives for us? Too much low-energy BS from "EU citizens". Being Swedish, I wish people would have some balls here and in other European countries.
Those tiny whistle rockets (we called them bottle rockets) and firecrackers have been illegal in Canada for as long as I've lived here at least. Back in the 80s as kids we'd sometimes be able to pay through the nose for them ($5 to $10 each!) from kids who would buy them in one of the US states between Ontario and Florida where they were legal.
What about sensory people? Most prefer the "Traffic light " type firework, no shootouts, bangs or whistles just a gentle roar and it changes colour...the Traffic light would be classed as a Roman candle.
Strange.... Holland... a country that promotes massive fireworks and drugs ....
For me as for Ukrainian it was hard to watch this video. Two years ago fireworks were very amazing and always made me happy. Now they scare me even through the screen. The landscaping scene with fireworks among the trees felt for me like it's a new russian missile attack on my city, not a holiday. I can't imagine when fireworks will give me such pleasure again as it was two years ago.
here, Ukrainian refugees watched the fireworks and enjoyed them In my country, there should be a difference between the sound of a firework and the sound of a bomb or grenade, it's not difficult! My grand dad also lived through the war, but he had no problem with fireworks
We have the same weird rules. Small firecrackers and bottle rockets like you showed are illegal but 50mm, 40gram NEQ single shots or big compound cakes are legal 🤦♂️
Thank you for being one of the most interesting channels on TH-cam. I never know what you're going to make a video on next, and you have a presentation style that I could watch for hours. Here's to whatever comes next in 2024!
the fountain at 3:39 is soooooo nice
Nice stuff you can get in the Netherlands, here in Germany only smaller firework batteries are legal.
Thanks for an incredible year of videos! So glad to have discovered your channel. Looking forward to next year.
I remember loving fireworks as a kid when they werent nearly as big, these days I think its overkill its a assault to the ears, too much explosion to appreciate it
You seem like a responsible person, and to a responsible person the regulations are weird. But they kind of make sense in the larger context I think.
The rockets, candles and small explosives were used mainly by young kids and (often drunk) teens who had not been instructed (or raised) correctly. A cakebox is technically heavier and more dangerous, but the threshold to experiment with it, to do something incredibly stupid with it is also a lot higher. 10 years ago it was dangerous to even cross the town during the day with my kids on Dec 31st, because teens would shoot candles and throw bundled explosives at passing bikes. This year, neighbors had their fountains and boxes set up, there was a beautiful display from 0:00 to about 1:30, and there was a lot less destruction/vandalism.
There are still a lot of new illegal firecrackers in the Netherlands, but now the cobra 6 is nothing compared to a cipolla or big boy profi.. by the way if a firework cake is prone to malfunctioning and overturning many times it has exploded while firing and shot people back, just as if a 40 shot battery explodes you can't stop the other shots, so it's much safer to have a single shot one or firecrackers this is simple ..
those small whistling ones are called kissan pieru " cats fart"
I walked all day every year, with a big bag full of rotjes and tollen. Magical!
So amazing watching every posy's video on my oled screen 🤤
it makes sense tho, if you ban all the stuff kids buy and cause them to lose eyes and fingers and only keep the proffesional stuff that you know people will be careful with since well its expensive and also those people are a lot more interested in fireworks you drastically decrease the amount of accidents during new year
Not only that but people are also way less careful with "small" stuff thus they end up doing damage far more frequently...
It make no sense because the black market still have lot of costumers to buy illegal fireworks like f4 shells and large firecrackers ... because if a firework cake is prone to malfunctioning and overturning many times it has exploded while firing and shot people back, just as if a 40 shot battery explodes you can't stop the other shots, so it's much safer to have a single shot
product than a multi shot one!
You can't make me happy with one of those big boxes of 300 euro the way you can make me happy with regular volcanoes, bottle rockets and normal firecrackers. I am -disgusted- by the fireworks branche who voluntarily threw all the little historic fireworks under the bus and put all their effort on selling 1 customer 1 giant box, instead of a bunch of small fireworks, because its easier for them to take all the money of the customer for 1 item, instead of picking and choosing.
The vuurwerkbranche is just as guilty for destroying the fireworks tradition as the whiners and the hooligans.
We can't let them take this tradition away from us. We must take fireworks back. Good video.