Here is our brand-new, 9.5 meter high, 7.5 ton clock, installed right smack in the middle of two main streets that drivers had no trouble navigating. Now drivers must drive around the clock to get to the same place.
And, ha, it was installed just over 10 days ago and is now not functioning. Here is what Danas, a reliable newspaper, has to say: The new symbol of Belgrade on Republic Square has lost its purpose after only ten days. The Belgrade Clock, which cost 10 million dinars (of which about five million dinars were spent on the "most modern mechanism"), not only does not show accurate time, but it no longer even has a hand. The City Administration is silent for now, and Danas' interlocutors believe that the situation with the clock is a reflection of the city government's decision to pay too much for something that will not work, and they emphasize that citizens have the right to know who is responsible for the shortcomings, which are financed from their own pockets." Ten million dinars is nearly $100,000.
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