New Year celebration all over the world comes with extravagant firework displays that light up the night sky. However, this particular one in Sydney, Australia made headlines after a simple gaffe marred the fireworks show.
Sydney is one of the first places in the world to welcome the new year. This 2019, over 1.5 million people gathered at the city’s harbor to ring in the new year and witness a spectacular fireworks display.
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However, what was expected to wow its spectators got ruined by a sign flashed on the Sydney Habour Bridge which read: “Happy New Year 2018!”
The sign was displayed on the bridge all throughout the fireworks display which lasted for 12 minutes.
What made the slip-up worse was that the fact that it was the city’s largest ever fireworks display.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the city spent £3.2 million or over P213 million for the said display.
Anna McInerney, the event’s executive producer, told reporters that they only focused on the funny side of the mistake.
“We just laughed about it, you know these things happen as we said, it takes 15 months to organize an event of this size and scale. Obviously we weren’t pleased, but look, you move on, you just get back to doing the show,” she said.
