Bright Lights, Quiet City (or Sun vs. Moon)

This morning’s Globe and Mail had an article about how Toronto police are using bright spotlights on rowdy club goers to help encourage them to go home, in much the same way as clubs themselves at the end of the night. The lights have been placed to cover key corners at which crowds normally gather, in their sunlight strong glare everyone tends to disperse and head home. Clever.

In related news back across the pond, Brighton police have found that incidents of violence increase around each full moon. This has led them to wonder whether werewolf myths are more linked to fact than at first thought, though only in people’s behaviour not their appearance.