My records after I woke up on New Year's Eve — when someone detonated what sounded like a shopping cart's worth of firecrackers and fireworks in short succession, long after the hour where in previous years things would have quieted already.
Police were also 'on edge' because there'd been e.g. massive fights with people throwing firecrackers at each other in the past week. Even ambulances and firefighters were reportedly attacked in Berlin.
I'm having trouble writing real blog posts because I feel a bit too glum, but maybe this is also all right?
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3:18 to 3:19 a.m. IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIII
A bang every 2.5 seconds
3:22 a.m. Little curly white dog being taken out for a walk is barking
2nd Police van is gone
At least 4 or 5 onlookers holding up their smartphones and filming the firecrackers
3:31 a.m.
8 young women and men (men mostly standing around their parked car) looking northward
3:32 a.m. Emergency vehicle siren in distance
2 compact police cars (grey and blue) roll slowly out of the A***str. and turn right onto the B***str.
Before 3:39 a.m.
- fire truck - U-turn on B***str. switching to northbound
- police van up B***str. northbound
- Lights flashing + siren
- incredibly loud firecracker
- ambulance - lights flashing
- compact police car
- loud bang of firecracker again
3:39 a.m.
compact police car, siren, lights flashing
bus M48 -> Mohrenstraße
compact police car (siren, lights) x 2
all northbound
3:43 a.m.
- there are still flashing blue lights reflected in Litfaßsäule of emergency vehicles stationed down the street
Ambulance without lights or siren
6 compact police cars head southward lights flashing
4:08 a.m.
Loud bang of firecracker, very close
4:09 a.m.
2 compact police cars at A***st./B***str. intersection, 1 of whom drove up with sirens & lights flashing, 1 police van
4:43 a.m.
trying to go to sleep again
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