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Sydney fireworks: Thousands sign petition to halt 'traumatic' show
bbc ^ | 12/28/2019

Posted on 12/29/2019 6:08:14 PM PST by BenLurkin

But Sydney's lord mayor Clover Moore said the fireworks would go ahead.

Ms Moore said she shared the "deep sympathies" of those who had signed the petition, but the fireworks were planned 15 months in advance and most of the budget had already been spent.

"We can't cancel the fireworks and even if we could, doing so would have little practical benefit," the lord mayor wrote on the petition's website.

However, Australians who signed the Change.org petition said a firework display would be an "insult".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: eptition; fireworks; sydney; traumatic

1 posted on 12/29/2019 6:08:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Plug your ears, Triggerflakes.................BOHICA!


2 posted on 12/29/2019 6:13:35 PM PST by Viking2002 (..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: Viking2002

OMG! One of my earliest childhood memories was going to a July 4th fireworks show and wondering what all the other kids were crying about.


3 posted on 12/29/2019 6:19:00 PM PST by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Extend sympathies”

How about a REAL Leader who said “buzz off you simpletons!”

“Sympathies” — I have NONE for these idiots.


4 posted on 12/29/2019 6:25:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin
In recent months, Australia has been grappling with severe bushfires due to record-breaking temperatures and severe drought.

New South Wales - where Sydney is located - is the worst-affected state, with nearly 100 fires burning.

The town of Balmoral, south-west of Sydney, was largely destroyed on 22 December and major roads south of the city have been closed.


All of which has absolutely nothing to do with a New Year's Eve celebration.

Just more prog wailing and moaning to get their way over something that has nothing to do with them.

.

5 posted on 12/29/2019 6:26:06 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: BenLurkin

Soy should be outlawed. Soy boys are killing us.


6 posted on 12/29/2019 6:27:46 PM PST by Cyclops08
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To: willk

Loud noises hurt tender ears. I got to the point where I wanted the entire sky lit up, horizon to horizon.


7 posted on 12/29/2019 6:38:38 PM PST by Viking2002 (..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: BenLurkin
go get yourself some pearls, a blanket and sit your silly azz self on the on the couch about an hour before showtime and you'll be good to go...

now STFU!!!

8 posted on 12/29/2019 6:40:03 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: BenLurkin

I was in Sydney for the last fireworks, it was awesome.

Frickin’ snowflakes are everywhere.


9 posted on 12/29/2019 6:40:46 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Cyclops08

they would just use bananas instead


10 posted on 12/29/2019 6:56:13 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: BenLurkin
Everybody, Jazz Hands! Isn't this fun?!

11 posted on 12/29/2019 6:57:14 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: BenLurkin

Bear in mind, Clover Moore is the archetypal leftie loonie politician.

To be fair, she’s currently showing a lot of guts standing up for common sense over this because she’s fighting her own base to do it.


12 posted on 12/29/2019 7:19:45 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: BenLurkin

If this f-tarded behavior was the norm in earlier generations we would have been totally dominated by our enemies. Australia would easily be a Japanese or German colony and maybe vaporized by the Soviets and let to rot to Mad Max society.


13 posted on 12/29/2019 7:33:41 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BenLurkin
This petition exposed the utter ignorance of those who started and signed it.

All together now! Duh!

14 posted on 12/29/2019 7:53:47 PM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: Viking2002

My favorite fireworks are just the loud flash bangs.


15 posted on 12/29/2019 11:22:16 PM PST by LukeL
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To: LukeL

Besides Islamic terrorists have been telling American Muslims to start fires for over 10 years.
Probably the same thing in Australia.


16 posted on 12/29/2019 11:30:34 PM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: LukeL

Besides Islamic terrorists have been telling American Muslims to start fires for over 10 years.
Probably the same thing in Australia.


17 posted on 12/29/2019 11:30:46 PM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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