On 13 Dec 2017 10:33:55 GMT, Huge wrote:


Naah. He was ****ing with it.


Not at all surprising that such events are occurring given how
difficult it is to legally dispose of time-expired flares these
days.

I just set them off in the back garden. It was worryingly hard to get
some of them going - involving a blowlamp in at least one case.

Hand helds are not too bad, just like holding a large firework.
Parachute a bit more awkward , When Mother still had the farm I took
a couple down there as it was well inland and unlikely to be seen as a
vessel in distress. even so my brother and I thought it would be
prudent to fire it pointing down slightly so it followed the ground
and hopefully buried itself in the boggy area around the stream at the
bottom of the hillside the field lay on.
Sodding thing decided to behave like a miniature cruise missile and
followed down the hillside across the stream then rose up again before
landing in the neighbouring farms field where it glowed ominously
while smoking like a large bonfire. Fortunately we had deliberately
waited till the hay had been baled and collected and the neighbour
knew us well enough to know that call saying "Sorry about the Fire in
you field but we are dealing with it " was nothing to get too worked
up about. "You be playing with rockets again?"

G.Harman