21.   On Wednesday, jumpy Haiti police fired into a Carnival crowd in the capital Port-Au-Prince after a man pulled out a gun near a parade float.

22.   Organized by the city and the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research, the public was invited to ride bicycles in front of the parade floats.

23.   The Grim Reaper led a parade float, obstacle-course contestants carried coffins and a frozen corpse was the main attraction.

24.   Rains pounded the streets, soaked parade floats and generally made life miserable except for those who administered generous portions of the legal form of general anesthesia -- alcohol.