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It's Friday January the 1 around 7:18PM and

Welcome to 2010 Vancouver!

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Photo: Reuters

A new year, and another French car burning celebration. Actually the irrepressible and lovable French burned a total of 1,137 cars last night to ring in the new year. "The number of vehicles torched was only 10 short of the record 1,147 burned this time last year, even though the Interior Ministry mobilized 45,000 police during the night -- 10,000 more than 12 months ago." And in Vancouver I don't know if we burned any cars at all last night. Shame on us. Well, at least we were classier than the Brits.

In a related, and little known fact, this previous post includes an image which is the number one Google Image search result for "car burning France." Great way to kick off the year.

Previously on The Vancouverite:

New Years, French Style (Jan 2, 2008)

Quotes of the day: Car Burning & Prediction Edition (Jan 3, 2009)

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