One of the things that surprise when you go to see a Kings parade live is the launch of candies and other sweets to the attendees to the event and especially to the children who attend astonished in the front row watching their favorite characters and waiting for the Magi at the end. Although in many occasions the candies end up in the saddlebags, bags, bags and even in the inverted umbrellas that many assistants carry, it is true that many fall to the ground and are not lost because they immediately occur swirls of children and adults to pick them up especially those who fall to the feet.
Given this situation and in a very questionable decision, more than anything because treating horseback riders with a sense seems to me to be excessively protective, the Mayor's Office of Madrid, through the delegate of the Government of Security and Emergencies area, said that We must take extreme security measures in those sections where there is no protection fence on horseback riding Although yes, he has said that there will be horseback riding, that the launching of candies will be allowed in all the rides, provided that he is fenced, and that those people who go on foot accompanying the floats will be able to distribute sweets and other gifts among the attendees although the Tour is not protected by fences.
So it seems to me that this will be the solution, to encourage those who travel in the floats throwing candies, in many of the floats it is children who do so, to get off and drop the candies in the bags of the children who attend. Although they have also commented that if the children are down it can be dangerous for them because they are distracted, they can get lost and it is very difficult for them to endure the whole ride walking.
The Madrid parade has the characteristic that it is fenced throughout the route although they are the rides of other districts, and that they will finally be held, where the rides do not have the protected space.
Hopefully the news does not go much further and that the illusion to children with excessively protectionist measures and hoping that all of us who attend behave in the best possible way watching our kids and paying them the most attention. The goal is to spend a fun afternoon full of dreams and illusions and finally make sense the next morning to see the faces of children opening their gifts.
