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A Chicago man in Darwin for business has shot bolt-upright in bed this afternoon thinking he’s back at home after thousands of small-scale explosions take place right outside his city window.
Defence contractor Stephen Morris told The Advocate this evening as he composed himself that he knew he was in the Top End but for a split second there, the electric jolt of adrenaline and fear coursed through his body in a terrifyingly familiar fashion.
“Holy cow, man,” he said, standing in his socks and pyjamas on Cavenagh Street.
“That scared this shit out of me, dude. Who the hell lets fireworks off during the day? And in a hotel?”
It’s the first time Mr Morris has been in the Territory on the first of July and he says he’ll certainly remember the experience now.
He said he can’t believe that a government would just let people buy fireworks for one day and let people set them off in the street like this.
“It’s madness,” he said.
“Somebody is going to get hurt.”
More to come.
