We all know that Thai's aren't the most safety conscious of people but at times they really take the biscuit.

Right now, in the street outside my apartment there is a bunch of kids playing with fireworks. Both firecrackers which they are literally throwing at each other whence lit and small rockets which are probably large enough to be able to seriously damage an eye.

I was no angel when I was a kid and played stupid games even with fireworks, but it was always away from adults because we knew well that we would get a right rollicking for being so stupid. In Thailand however, the parents are sat around watching and even laughing at them and they can't even think to advise the kids to use them safely as possible.

F*cking idiots, the parents I mean. Kids are prone to do stupid things but the parents really should know better, who would be held responsible should somebody else become injured?

I was watching the kids in my friends street make a small fire in the street and then throw their fireworks onto the fire while they stood right over it!! You are right the parents were all out there and no-one said a word!

The so called kids are probably at the top of the food chain in the family so any safety advice concerning parents/family would probably go the other way. Once the upcoming generation pickles their brains with the local home brew, the process can be repeated.

I know where you are coming from but I've sat in a bar and watched a (sober) farang cut apart fireworks he had just bought with the intention of making a bigger and better one. Stupidity does not recognise nationalities nor education but Darwinian evolution usually weeds out the also rans.

You say we, as kids, did some stupid things, and I did as well, but we'd be given short shrift by our parents if they caught us. Well just imagine that the average Thai parent is the same mentality as we were as kids and you'l understand.

The two good things, one, just watching the hits and near misses where no one is seriously hurt from a safe distance (behind a barrier preferred) is good fo5r a chuckle and the soi dogs seem to go into hide mode during the fireworks/firecracker extravaganza.

Both firecrackers which they are literally throwing at each other whence lit and small rockets which are probably large enough to be able to seriously damage an eye.

My God...you're my mother reincarnated!

i have 5 to 10 kids just by my window doing that crap every single night. Just 5mins ago i heard one crying after they threw 1 on a car from upclose(a car is hit every 10mins id say, lots of alarms).. I am crossing my finger those tears were from an exploded finger.

Here its worse, the parents are actually throwing fireworks at their own kid and jumping around like little retards.. Of couse they had to walk 1km from their open air 50baht barbershop in a tin-foil and wood built shop to throw it away... instead of annoying their own neighbor.

Tomorrow im hitting the market and im going to be throwing fireworks on them from the window, karma's coming.

The two good things, one, just watching the hits and near misses where no one is seriously hurt from a safe distance (behind a barrier preferred) is good fo5r a chuckle and the soi dogs seem to go into hide mode during the fireworks/firecracker extravaganza.

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Sounds like the soi dogs are smarter than the kids.

In general the dogs are much more lovable than these little and not so little baskets with fireworks.

There are always many casualties turning up in hospitals after the holidays. Missing eyes, hands, fingers etc are quite common. But, the Thai culture just accepts it as normal. Not much different than allowing pre-teen children to ride in traffic on motor scooters, or mothers carrying infants on their scooters... and nobody wearing helmets.

I was hit in the head by a rocket while riding my motorcycle. Fortunately, I was wearing a helmet and I only wobbled a bit and didn't go down.