Firework boy attacks chippy

Paul Britton & Neal Keeling

October 24, 2008

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A BOY threw a powerful firework into a chip shop, forcing the owners to flee in terror.

The youth, thought to be as young as 10, burst into Silverdale Chippy, in Openshaw, Manchester, and hurled the explosive on to the floor before running off.

No customers were inside but owner Kwanshing Wong, 52, said explosions lasted for about 15 minutes.

Mr Wong and his wife Kanfong ran into a back room as the shop filled with smoke. The walls and floor were severely scorched.

Fire chiefs said the couple could have been killed.

Mr Wong said: "It was flying all over the shop and we could not see through the smoke. It was very scary for us."

The Tuesday night incident came as Greater Manchester Fire Service launched its annual Bonfire Night fireworks crackdown.

Last year, firefighters dealt with 35 people injured by fireworks and bonfires.

The fire service is operating a firework amnesty so members of the public can safely dispose of illegal or unwanted fireworks. Free collections can be arranged by calling 0800 634 0880.

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Empty Head, Southport (24/10/2008 at 09:55)

Don't sell them.
Have controlled firework displays, rides, toffee apples, treacle toffee, free entry. Just rip us off for the rest.

PW, Manchester (24/10/2008 at 09:57)

One good enough reason why such 'ordnance' should not be on sale to the general public. Sorry to those sensible users who are obviously in the majority. Unfortunately in life we all have to suffer because of the idiots. Pubs are closed down and demolished because of the few that commit violence, drug-dealing or other criminal activities, so it's mostly innocents who lose their local.

I know he was only 10, but all the more reason to ban them and just have organised displays.

Anthony , Accrington,Lancashire (24/10/2008 at 10:53)

I would shove this 10 yr old in secure care and jail the boy's parents for 5 years;this is nothing short of wanton youth misbehaviour with fireworks!!!

Ace Shakespeare , manchester (24/10/2008 at 11:19)

Just like everything else thats wrong with britain nothing is ever done about it? we just all complain year after year.How many years have people said to ban these explosives and have organised displays.And yet again nothing is done...

The Seeker, Eccles (24/10/2008 at 11:55)

It is truly astonishing in this day and age, that exposives are still made available to the general public. This silly 'ritual' Guy Fawkes night should be banned before anyone else gets injured.

Pippa, Manchester (24/10/2008 at 12:37)

Year after year we hear stories like this,along with those about people who have been injured by fireworks. yet we are still selling them to members of the public. In fact, I went into Tesco yesterday to find that they've got a BOGOF offer on fireworks. Unbelievable. Time they were banned from general sale.

Anthony , Accrington,Lancashire (24/10/2008 at 12:56)

You are ALL killjoy spoilsports;why should you lot be spoiling fireworks for the sensible by insisting they be banned for sensible people just because of thugs like this 10yr old(who SHOULDNT be possessing fireworks anyway)?

midway, West Germany (24/10/2008 at 13:08)

This is r eally all wong.

chenny banana, longsight (24/10/2008 at 13:21)

i hate this time of year.just what are you 'celebrating'? its bad when you have a scared pet or small children. what a waste of money , they will never be 'banned' because of MONEY. i wish they would be banned though, they just cause injury and misery to lots of people. but this is britain. the do what you want culture.

TroubleOnline (24/10/2008 at 13:25)

I think there should be a total clampdown on the sale of fireworks in general

We start hearing them in our neghbourhood from about september onwards and its gon january before they cease and all along people and property are damaged.

More regulated sales and if your caught using fireworks inappropriately then an appropriate sentance should be provided.

Maybe if this 10 year old is causgh he should be shoved in a room and freightened like the poor chippy owner

Might make him think again about being a silly little Ba****d

wayneold, manc (24/10/2008 at 13:45)

You should have to apply for a license to get fireworks, meet certain criteria etc, it amazes me how many scroats buy these fireworks. If you are found to have fireworks on you in public you should be arrested and fined!

Anthony , Accrington,Lancashire (24/10/2008 at 14:47)

Don't tar everybody with the same brush wayneold;not everybody is irresponsible with fireworks, because
(a)if instructions are carefully followed,
and (b)safety distances are adhered to,
then fireworks entertain NOT harm the users and their spectators-SENSIBLE USE CAUSES NO PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER.

wayneold, manc (24/10/2008 at 15:40)

Anthony , Accrington,Lancashire

Im not saying everyone who has fireworks are idiots, if you want to let fireworks off in your own garden at bonfire night ive got no problems with that whatsoever.

It’s the scallies letting them off for the next 2 months that annoy me, these kids shouldn’t be able to get the fireworks in the first place and that’s why i believe you should have to apply for a licence for them!

Ace Shakespeare , manchester (24/10/2008 at 16:10)

Anthony , Accrington,Lancashire
Are you real "Most of these scroats" Cannot real or write never mind be sensible!Its time to ban this outright sale of explosives to the public. And stop the dangers to everyone.

wayneold, manc (24/10/2008 at 18:07)

Ace, if i ever win the lotto im gonna set up my vigilante group for Manchester and you're gonna be invited to join the board pal, the government, the police and more shockingly, the people dont care for anything in Manchester anymore!

Esso Blues brudder,, Manchester (24/10/2008 at 20:31)

I have a theory regarding evolution, there is many cranks these days “not me”, I wonder whether we have it programmed in our genes that the brain will revert back to the apes and stop learning, because these cranks act like ape man.

-Soothsayer+ (24/10/2008 at 20:37)

How did a ten-year-old-boy end up with a fire work?

Esso Blues brudder,, Manchester (24/10/2008 at 21:02)

Family might have given him the firework to set off because they may have been previously been served cold chips.

Esso Blues brudder,, Manchester (24/10/2008 at 21:40)

I have just looked at the video and I have been in that chippy and the owners are very nice people, and when I seen that firework, it is a disgrace doing that, the little fool wants a few years in a care home, and if you parents know it was your child you should come forward before he does it again or starts doing other silly things.

wildmouse, East (25/10/2008 at 00:57)

Yes big Question ? how do children still get such dangerus weapons. Guns, Knifes, and now once again fireworks!

This Time Last year I was attacked by a bunch of fools that were randemly fireing rockets from a car window on a busy estate. As i found myself pind agaist a wall with no where to run, first i was hit on the arm then again to the side of my head cousing burns to my face loss of hair and a lump to my temple the size of a tennis ball. Its no joke being fired upon and something should be done about the freefor all sale each year. Bonfire night used to be a close community avent???? But now!??

Dennis the Menace, Hyde (25/10/2008 at 02:05)

Am I right in thinking that the Local Councils give licences for shops/businesses to sell Fireworks ??
If that is correct .... I would urge anyone who has the misfortune to suffer an injury through Firework misuse to take the Council of the area concerned to Court for allowing traders to supply the general public with explosives !!!!, and no .... I am not a kill joy, just a sensible person who has had enough of idiots and scroats being allowed to wreck the lives of ordinary people !!!!

Anthony , Accrington,Lancashire (27/10/2008 at 08:08)

All the killjoys on here who want the retailsale/privateuse of fireworks to the public think again;
The Govt,explosives industry group,british fireworks association and importers/distributors and rospa are dead against such a ban because it will merely lead to a healthy blackmarket in dangerous substandard poorquality potentially lethal deadly chinese import fireworks of unknown origin taking over from sales of legal safe BS7114 compliant importer/distributor regulated firework imports, AND there is temptation for idiots to try and make their own fireworks/pyrotechnic devices from household substances or by tampering with legal pyrotechnics to make them ie distress flares/theatrical pyrotechnics with serious fatalities and results while they are made or set off, and as if the police are gonna play catch me charlie going out to odd fireworks going off in the face of a ban;they can't be everywhere at once!!! They're not gonna run round playing chase me charlie and prosecute odd fireworks going off when they have other things on their plate!!! As IF.

Anthony , Accrington,Lancashire (27/10/2008 at 09:02)

Also the laws should better punish the kids and their parents,stuff the humanrights guff that the NSPCC etc trot out towards kids misusing fireworks;why should the retailsale/private use of fireworks be curtailed to the sensible majority because of the police's inadequacy to deal with them?

citycentre, manchester (27/10/2008 at 20:00)

Anthony

"why should the retailsale/private use of fireworks be curtailed to the sensible majority because of the police's inadequacy to deal with them? "

"All the killjoys on here who want the retailsale/privateuse of fireworks to the public think again;"

"dead against such a ban because it will merely lead to a healthy blackmarket in dangerous substandard poorquality potentially lethal deadly chinese import fireworks of unknown origin"

"there is temptation for idiots to try and make their own fireworks/pyrotechnic devices from household substances or by tampering with legal pyrotechnics"

"and as if the police are gonna play catch me charlie going out to odd fireworks going off in the face of a ban;they can't be everywhere at once!!! They're not gonna run round playing chase me charlie and prosecute odd fireworks going off when they have other things on their plate"

all sound ideas, in my view
now replace fireworks with cannabis in any of those sentences, and tell me the difference?

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