Get cracking on fireworks.

YESTERDAY, this newspaper published a report and picture of an 11-year-old who suffered 40 per cent burns when a firecracker exploded in his face. We don't know what it is about boys his age - or younger - race and locality, and their attraction to small combustible objects that produce a loud bang. Perhaps it is the same sort of demographic factors that make those under the age of 16 so over-represented in the accident statistics. When it comes to adolescents riding motorcycles without lessons, licences or helmets, nothing beats the small towns and rural communities. Whatever the reasons may be, every fasting month, the vast majority of those reported to have sustained …