Those wacky Peruvians.
Dec. 31st, 2004 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingPeruvians can blast away their frustrations with unpopular President Alejandro Toledo this New Year with the best-selling Toledo firework bomb.
"Effigies of Toledo loaded with rockets and other fireworks are selling like hot cakes, especially ones where the body is shaped like a bomb with a fuse," said Luz Aliaga, who sells them for $11.
Letting off fireworks at midnight is a traditional New Year celebration here.
The idea of a "Toledo bomb" was born when a reporter tried to hand the president a fake bomb -- a football painted black with a fuse -- during a public event this month after a survey showed most respondents would give him a bomb for Christmas.
"Effigies of Toledo loaded with rockets and other fireworks are selling like hot cakes, especially ones where the body is shaped like a bomb with a fuse," said Luz Aliaga, who sells them for $11.
Letting off fireworks at midnight is a traditional New Year celebration here.
The idea of a "Toledo bomb" was born when a reporter tried to hand the president a fake bomb -- a football painted black with a fuse -- during a public event this month after a survey showed most respondents would give him a bomb for Christmas.