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Contributor: Kimberly D Bailey
Country: China
City: Shanghai
This sign was located in downtown Shanghai. Fireworks are so prevalent in China that they must have signs telling people not to set them off in busy and crowded areas of the city.
This reminds me of something that the security at my old job used to say: if there seems to be a silly rule, it's because someone at one time or another did something to justify that rule.