...but who the f..ck care?

As mentioned a few times, this year the rules for the fireworks is more strict then before. Specially inside the 5:th ring road. A lot on information posters is to be find everywhere that tells what is allowed and not, so nobody can have missed this.

There are time limitations. Only the first and the last day of the year, you are allowed to shoot 24 hours. After that it is from 7 AM until midnight for the 15 first days of the year. The rest of the year it is totally forbidden - included 31 december. I am actually writing this post before 7 AM, and I have already started to hear the bombs outside.

You are not allowed to shoot outside schools, hospital, bus stations, train stations, historical buildings, embassies, military buildings, electrical centrals, gas stations and a row of other listed places. I am living next to Beijing's military hospital, this is not a peaceful zone. The even shoot inside the hospital area.

You are only allowed to shoot at open spaces, and not close to houses or from balconys. There are also "soft" restrictions about respect towards other peple, and that children only is allowed to shoot with supervision of grownups.

That means pretty reasonable regulations and limitations - but who the f..ck care about these rules?

I think actually that pretty many tries to follow, but there are still enough number of firework-crazy Chinese to make the streets feel like anarchy from time to time.

For a while I was wondering why they often places there bombs in the middle of the street, and now I have the theory that they try to follow the regulation about shoot on open spaces...

This type of posters about the fire works regulations is to be find everywhere and an many different versions.