Right around the corner from our apartment is a park. It is a pretty big park, with walking paths and a pond that had frozen over. There were ducks and geese and moms and dads with kids all roaming through this park. Remember that there isn't much green space in the city, and people are used to seeing streets and buildings while confined to the city limits. To keep the place nice, the French have devised a way to control the use of this park.
At 5:45pm each day, this alarm goes off, like a blaring fire truck, for 15 minutes warning people to get out of the park or be locked in by the automatically-closing iron gates at 6pm. My first thought when I saw the park was, oh how it would be to live facing the park (as our landlords do), but after I found out that everyday at 5:45 a screeching alarm goes off for 15 minutes I'm not so sure.
I guess there is something to be said about keeping the scarce green space in the city free of the miscreants that come out at night.
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