JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - New Year revellers in South Africa's commercial capital Johannesburg have rung in 2003 by hurling beds, televisions and other missiles from their windows, injuring 46 passers-by, police say.



A police spokesman said party-goers in the city's notoriously dangerous Hillbrow district had thrown televisions, beds, bottles and rocks from apartment windows and that gunshots had been heard from one building.


"It is customary in Hillbrow for people to celebrate the New Year by throwing objects off their balconies," he said on Wednesday, but added that recent year-end festivities had been much calmed by an increased police presence in the district.


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If this is traditional who are the fools walking under the balconies around midnight on New Years eve??

*chuckles* I think it's a load of bollocks! Perhaps a one off scenario that they just conveniently decided to call "new year's custom"... I've never heard of this before.... Nor was it on local news... Eeeesh shows you, one should never believe everything one reads!

its not true? aww ... sounds fun.

I remeber hearing that in France or somehwere it is a tradition to set cars on fire on New Years.

they do that anyway when france looses in the six nations...