For increased stability, the regular Dutch traffic sign has an open rim at its back, which is a convenient cradle for fire-crackers. Small fire-crackers can well use a sound board, don’t they? –and the big ones ... well, their effect is just amazing!

To the approximately $100,000,000 the Dutch people spent on pyrotechnics, last New Year’s Eve, should be added the costs of (public and private) property destroyed.