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January 01, 2009
Silvester
Unfortunately not having had a plot to blow-up the Reichstag with gunpowder in the 17th Century, the Youth of Germany has to rely on New Year’s Eve as an excuse to inflict burns on themselves and their friends.
Teenagers stood in the square holding rockets in their fingers moments before they rushed skywards to deposit sparkles in the night. A thick layer of smoke hung in the cold orange-tinted air as boys walked about the smouldering cobbled battlefield igniting Chinese paper-wrapped boxes of bright coloured Whoosh.
Posted by john at January 1, 2009 11:23 AM