About 7 years ago, my brother kept the pine Xmas tree in his shed for no clear reason. Early the following April it was his 50th birthday, so we had a big shindig at his rural-residential home. All the neighbours had been contacted, letting them know to expect a bit of noise, we were permitted to continue until 3 am the following day, coincidentally the exact same time & day that Daylight Shavings Time was ending, at that hour the time would revert to 2 am.
Things were getting a bit raucous about 2 am when my brother decided to burn the old Xmas tree in the firepit (an old washing machine drum).
That was too much for one neighbour, he called the cops. Admittedly, the conflagration somewhat resembled a fireball as the tree was consumed by the fire very rapidly, it was more desiccated than just dry.
We tried reasoning with the constabulary that with daylight shavings about to end that we could continue to be noisy for at least another hour but they were not coming around to that viewpoint!

The use of the word “shavings” in this context is deliberate: daylight savings saves NOTHING.

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