This old chestnut again! Did anyone hear a series of loud explosions last night at about 2am? There were several small (but loud) explosions, followed by an extremely loud one at about 2.30am. Just wondering if anyone a) heard them and b) knew what on earth caused them?

Edit: I just had a brainwave... I will ask the police (in theory they should be aware of loud explosions in the city...!)

Were they in the same area as last time?
When I was walking around Victoria quays the last time they were going off I saw a number of flashes which led to the explosion like noise coming from around the Shalesmoor area, and when I was in the police uniform stores near shalesmoor a few of us saw and heard them as the police helicopter flew over.

could'nt hear them last night but could the last time they went off, strange!

I heard them,they woke me up!!! :(

Don't know what caused them but they sounded really close to West St,a few little ones which just sounds like normal fireworks then about 3-4 really loud ones. I heard a couple go off towards the end of last week.
Whatever they are i wish they would stop as there pretty annoying in the middle of the night. :mad:

Yes I heard them. They sounded to me to be coming from somewhere between the Frog and Parrot and Rockingham Street.

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Did you get any luck from the police Geoff? or was it a case of we know about it and are looking into it (but don't have a clue)?

WTF?! Fireworks?! In February?! :mad:

Terrorist bombings?

Originally posted by duffman
Did you get any luck from the police Geoff? or was it a case of we know about it and are looking into it (but don't have a clue)?
Yes, I had a reply from the police. I meant to post it earlier, but forgot! Basically they knew nothing about it :lol:

But then again... they stop working at 12pm don't they? :P

Be fair. As Chief Wiggum summed it up so beautifully, You can't expect them to "police" the whole city! Especially when there's easy revenue to be raised elsewhere from speeding motorists

we heard them!

they woke us up aswell, which was not fun seeing as I had to be up for work at 5. i couldn't get back to sleep after :(

was extremely loud here in netherthorpe area, couldn't make up my mind whether it was fireworks or gun shots

they were a bit too spread out to be fireworks i thought, especially at that time in the morning :confused:

omg i heard one last nite ,around 4-30 am in hillsbro area

I think was it Eid on earlier in the week. So they could have been fireworks?

Not last Tuesday but I heard one a couple of weeks ago that made me think of the earlier thread.

Surely you can buy fireworks all year round now? They seem to be appropriate for any celebration. Plus it was Chinese new year recently.