Place de la République

I wish I could tell you the story about the orange cone but I have no idea! I saw it from the bus and had to get off to take a picture.

[Marna]

I think there was a drunk Swede in Paris last night :-)

[Helene]

@juhlin LOL!!! a drunk Swede climber because it's very high!!

[Remco Greutink]

Haha. Somebody tried to put out the fire, maybe?

[Denise]

Great sculpture

[Judith Greenwood]

I'm reading a book called the Coral Thief at the moment - set in Paris as Napoleon is en route to St Helena (sorry - shouldn't mention those dark days!) but it's so making me want to be in Paris!!

[marg]

Yes there is defintely a story here and a great photo.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Great picture and kind of funny about the orange cone on the torch.

[Trina P Holub]

That's great! I would have done the same thing. :-)

[Carolyn White]

LOL! Fun shot! :0)

[Peter Auliciems]

liberte - great shot

[Kalexa]

That's a fun shot!

[Vicki]

That's awesome - nice find!

[Marinade Spatula]

Those traffic cones end up on the head of Queen Vitctoria (or the like) here in the more student populated towns! Fun shot.

[Geertje K.]

What a fun find! Watch out for burning torch!

[Steve Harvey]

great framing.

[junginger]

hahaha! cool find! great photo!

[Marja de Jong]

That is funny!

[Muse]

That's funny!

[Jennifer C]

haha well spotted, great pic

[Juliette Packham]

wonderful capture - these sorts of things whilst you probably shouldn't laugh always make me giggle!

[Ginger Sanders]

LOL..I know that place. The first time I came to Paris my daughter met me at the airport. We were supposed to get off at Temple for our hotel but the train just kept going past it. We got on both ways. Finally we found out that it was CLOSED for repairs so we got off at République.

We came up out of the Metro with all of our luggage dragging with us and I said "Well which way now....?" and she said "I have NO IDEA." Can you believe we got lucky and PICKED THE RIGHT AVENUE???

Temple reopened the day we left.

[Helene]

@gingersanders thanks for sharing the story with me, makes me laugh, even if i can imagine it was not funny at all when it happened! you were lucky to find the right avenue, such a big place, i can't get the right one all the time, somedays i missed the one i'm looking for!

[Em]

Haha! Trop bien!

[Anoeska van Rijsbergen]

ha, ha, very funny!

[Shannon Pitton]

This is hilarious, how would you even get a cone up there?

[Kris Snow]

Oh, what a great find!

[Stephanie Nguyen]

LOL I can only imagine the story behind this, very funny capture :)

[Matt Jugo]

this is fantastic! I want to salute whoever decorated the statue. the flame is so much more convincing now that it is orange!

[Cary]

Hilarious!