A few weeks before Cracker Night some of the stores in Penrith – mainly newsagents and the sports store – would start selling fireworks. Tom Thumbs were a gentler version of the Jumping Jack. They all bore the instruction: Light blue touch paper and stand back. Fireworks, other than at specially controlled events, were finally banned in New South Wales in 1986. Sports news, results and expert commentary delivered straight to your inbox each weekday.

I have to say that little heed was paid to the possibility of flames spreading from a bonfire and causing damage but that was the way it was back then. This was crazy. They were of several kinds – the pretty ones, the explosive ones, and the safe ones, and I use the word safe here with some trepidation. One rear-end collision and that’s all, folks. It was common however for the fireworks to be placed in a box or paper bag and left in the yard.

"It is Waerea-Hargreaves diving towards the ground that has created this impression. Waerea-Hargreaves was also charged by the match review committee with a high tackle on Dylan Edwards, but will escape a suspension and instead be fined. Penrith look set to head to the judiciary on Tuesday night in the hope of beating a dangerous throw charge so Viliame Kikau can play in the grand final qualifier. I don’t know what percentage of burns sparklers were responsible for in our day but I read recently that they are today responsible for nearly 20 per cent of firework burns in the USA. Mucking around on bikes and on the family car was also risky. You would start building a bonfire by throwing some easily combustible kindling on the ground and then piling on whatever was handy to create a good and lasting flame.

A few weeks before Cracker Night some of the stores in Penrith – mainly newsagents and the sports store – would start selling fireworks. When we lived in High Street, our bonfire was always in the yard at the back of our shop. A particular favourite was the Mount Vesuvius which, as the name implies, offered a volcano-like explosion of sparks. One thing that these crackers all had in common was the wick – a piece of slowly combustible paper coloured blue. Upon being lit, the flammable section burns slowly throwing out a shower of sparkles. After this, we got the afternoon off to prepare for the real highlight of the day – Bonfire Night or Cracker Night, choose your own term. There were publicly held bonfires, a big one at the Showground, and another at the Scouts Hall but the real fun was building your own bonfire with your mates in one of your back yards or on a spare paddock. The metal once ignited gets scalding hot and takes quite a while to cool down.

The same with bb guns or air rifles. My father, and some of my friends’ fathers, had at one stage a car with one of these seats. The verdict comes as a blow to Penrith's hopes of playing in their first grand final in 17 years, given Kikau is the most damaging second-rower in the competition. The double bunger exploded twice. Mind you, I don’t think anybody other than those Australians suffering the colonial cringe and who strangely still referred to Britain as ‘home’ cared much for Empire Day but to kids it represented a half-day off from school and crackers.

Penrith Whitewater Stadium: Extremely dangerous, nearly drowned - See 67 traveler reviews, 17 candid photos, and great deals for Cranebrook, Australia, at Tripadvisor. "He [Kikau] is almost exclusively responsible for this position," NRL counsel Peter McGrath said.

We were lucky when we were living in High Street because the yard was at the back of Dad’s cafe which had a fuel stove so there was always plenty of wood down the back of the yard to throw on the fire. The other so-called safe firework was the skyrocket which you placed in a container such as a bottle or metal tube, lit it and away it went into the sky, emitting a cascade of sparks. As with today, fireworks were hell for cats and dogs.

Instead, they believed the NRL's claims that it had largely been Waerea-Hargreaves' actions that stopped the tackle from being far worse. I would certainly not have let my children light crackers, play with catapults or driven a car with them in a rumble seat and my children, in turn, are even more obsessive when it comes to to their children and the risk of harm. There were plenty of other things that we did back then that were, looking back, on the dangerous side, such as playing with shanghais or catapults, the names were interchangeable. Perhaps it was a generational thing, perhaps it was because that generation had lived through two world wars and a Depression and saw risk differently. Penrith Panthers second-rower Viliame Kikau has been found guilty by the NRL Judiciary of a dangerous throw on Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, and will serve a one-match ban.

Light the bonfire, chuck some kerosene on it to get it going and you had a bonfire. Some kids used them to hunt rabbits – I was not one of these – and the more irresponsible fired them at other kids. We all loved our pets but somehow, in the excitement of the night, we forgot the terror that the crackers caused our animals. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), Nathan Cleary masterclass puts Penrith Panthers into preliminary final, Mind-boggling Rabbitohs excel in first week of finals, Wallabies show promise but there is still work to be done after Bledisloe Cup classic, Wallabies, All Blacks draw pulsating 89-minute Bledisloe Cup opener, Lightning crashes as West Coast Fever qualifies for Super Netball grand final, Superb Dylan Alcott wins French Open to take 11th grand slam title, Polish teenager Iga Świątek beats Sofia Kenin to win French Open title, 'Did we have sex?' If a ‘bullet’ hit you, it certainly hurt and the big danger was that it could take out an eye. Change ), Growing up in Penrith in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. ( Log Out /  So on the 24th of May each year, we had morning assemblies at school listening to local imperialists and a few conscripted students extolling the wonders of the British Empire and Australia’s essential role in it. Apart from the dangers generally of handling fireworks, and each year the papers on the following days would have stories of kids injured by fireworks, it was common for the younger children to attend Cracker Night dressed in their pajamas and dressing gowns. ", Nathan Cleary added: "He's a massive part of this team. A sparkler is a metallic stick with a non-flammable metal handle. It depends what you define as "bad", compared to the ghettos some US cities have nowhere in sydney is that unsafe, but if we're strictly being comparative on different parts of Sydney Penrith is definetly in the unsafe half. Viliame Kikau's lawyer argued he … I defend him at training sometimes and it's a nightmare. Most other States have similar bans.

Everything he does looks worse.". I enjoy playing with big Kiks.


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