Here you see the "judases" strung across the road. (There were more, but my camera batteries died as I arrived and I had to run around to get spares.
They came in all shapes, colours, sizes and genders. They looked to me from a distance like the papier mache figures that people buy for kids' birthday parties and you have to hit it until it breaks and all the sweets come out.
The figures seem to be sponsored, and had names on them. Might be a good way to take out your frustration on a cranky shopkeeper - make a figure and blow him up!
Each figure had a sort of hula hoop around its waist, and when detonated, the figure would start to spin, first one way and then the next like a mad thing.
The usual fireworks whine accompanied the spinning, faster and faster until KABOOM, the figure exploded into 1000 pieces (no sign of any sweets).
I didn't realise how hard it is to take a picture of an explosion - by the time you hear the noise it's almost too late to capture it, but I reckon I did a pretty good job on this one to the right. You can see the pieces flying everywhere.
No problems with health and safety here, although we could not pass under the figures, we were certainly a lot closer than I think we would have been in other countries worried about possible lawsuits or someone getting hit by flying debris.
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