Hundreds of drones plunge into Melbourne’s Yarra River

Like Catholicism, or Royalty, or Govt's?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

Or alternatively companion animals that can't handle regular innocent man-made events should be banned.

There should be such an event, it helps dogs and people appreciate ups and downs in life. If you have entirely stress-free life, your stress floor-level becomes too high to handle day-to-day small irritations.

Counterpoint to your opinion - there should be no dogs barking all day 365 days a year and causing stress to people liking some silence.

So do thousands of other toys, tools, and gadgets. An EV requires about 1000x the batteries and other resources that go into a small drone.

This is a very weak argument against drones.

Imagine a world where everyone flies EV's and there are no roads. Now that would save on infrastructure costs!

Do you mean this one of 2021-06-30?

> Many boxes of fireworks were stamped “Made in China.” The logo of a green space alien marked some boxes as coming from Area 51, a fireworks dealer in Nevada.

> [...] Officials had discovered what they called “improvised explosive devices” — or homemade fireworks believed to contain flash powder — mixed in with the commercial fireworks and piled in a trash bag.

> There were 44 devices about as wide and tall as a soda can, and 280 smaller devices about the size of a toilet paper roll. Each had a short fuse.

> All were moved to the shade — away from the commercial fireworks — and the containment vessel was called in. It was only about 80 degrees, but police used fans to keep the fireworks cool and prevent them from detonating.

> [...] The next thing Becerra saw, he said, was “the sun” — a burst of light as the containment vessel blew apart and the blast it was meant to control shot out in all directions, flipping cars and cracking foundations, smashing windows and injuring residents. Glass shards littered Silva’s face.

“From a fireworks tip to ‘catastrophic failure’ in 12 hours: How the LAPD blew up a neighborhood” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-06/how-lapd...

> Mell Hogg, the lead technician — aka Bomb Tech A — had been on the bomb squad for less than three years. Following standard bomb-squad practice, Hogg did not weigh the powder from the fireworks the team intended to detonate in the LAPD’s containment vessel and instead grossly underestimated its explosive power, according to the inspector general’s report. He is now with the department’s training division, according to a recent roster.

> Mark Richardson — Bomb Tech B — helped Hogg X-ray samples of the explosives, the inspector general’s records show. Richardson still works in the emergency services division, which houses the bomb squad, but it is unclear in what role.

> Brendan McCarty — Bomb Tech C — had 18 years of experience on the bomb squad and warned his fellow technicians and Levesque that the plan was not safe, the report said. McCarty has since retired from the force.

> Thomas Deluccia — Bomb Tech D — arrived on scene that afternoon and helped load the commercial fireworks discovered at a home on East 27th Street onto pallets to transport away from the scene, the records state. Deluccia has also remained in the emergency services division, although it is unclear what his role is.

> And, finally, there was 12-year bomb squad veteran Stefanie Alcocer, or Bomb Tech E. Alcocer was primarily responsible for constructing a countercharge, the report shows, the explosive used to detonate the fireworks inside the department’s “total containment vessel,” which failed in the blast. Alcocer was suspended for 10 days for her role in the incident, according to police officials. At some point after the blast, she was promoted to sergeant.

“LAPD refused to ID officers behind a huge fireworks explosion. Now we have their names” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-14/lapd-ref...

Drones replacing fireworks make sense only in a swarm. I doubt that anyone would launch a drone with kids on midnight, so there's no danger of rain of drones on new year. And a drone show or even several shows in different parts of the city, that are operated by a licensed organization and with a safety clearance from city at worst case may create some trash, but it is very unlikely to actually harm anyone. Compare this to all the damage caused by fireworks this year (including a burned bus!) and a lot of trash on the streets even in places where it was explicitly forbidden.

Majority of population in Germany is for prohibition of fireworks according to recent surveys, with German alt-right (AfD supporters) being an exception. Apparently those different folks disturbed more than enough people with it.

Your cat may be fine, but there's enough research showing negative impact of fireworks on urban ecosystem and pets to make your data point insignificant.