Field Gun at JBR!
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TNW

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537 posts

218 months

Saturday 27th July 2013
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Wandered down JBR this evening and thought I heard a clap of thunder. Turns out the Dubai Police were letting rip with a cannon! I'm hoping it's loaded with blanks as it's pointing right at the new hotel they are building on the beach!

dxbtiger

4,494 posts

189 months

Saturday 27th July 2013
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Signifies sunset during Ramadan.

TNW

Original Poster:

537 posts

218 months

Saturday 27th July 2013
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yes, thought it was to signal Iftar, they seemed to be enjoying using it!

Reffio

113 posts

168 months

Sunday 28th July 2013
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I live in downtown and there is one set off beside the fountains to mark Iftar every day. They have done it for the last few years yet despite that the first time it goes off each year I always brick myself the first day of Ramadan! Sounds like a bomb going off!