21.   Traffic police stood by helplessly as crowds swarmed past them on foot, motorbikes and pedicabs, cheering, clapping and beeping their horns.

22.   Uribe supporters drove through Bogota with campaign posters plastered on their windows, beeping their horns in celebration.

23.   Much of Paris was invaded overnight with young Chirac supporters celebrating his win by whizzing up and down the main streets waving flags outside windows and beeping car horns.

24.   Passing motorists flashed their lights and beeped their horns.