Peruvian's New Year celebrations

This year was my first New Year in Peru. Sadly I haven't been able to enjoy the opportunity so much as I was stuck home for health reasons.

Anyway, I got a few elements of the things local do to celebrate...

First of all, generic stuff: they go out, dance and drink. That's pretty much the same as any country I've been to until now. They also fire loads of fireworks, and these apparently cost *a lot* less than in Europe. Apparently they don't worry too much about the security side of that, so children can buy them and burn themselves to death without any problem (apparently that doesn't happen too much, or at least it doesn't make the news as it does in Europe).

The specific things are a little funnier though. I'm ordering them from less to best fun:

1. grapes in champagne: *most* people in Lima will drink champagne (or something similarly bubbly) with 12 grapefruits inside their glass. They eat each grapefruit one by one, making a wish for each one of them.
2. wearing yellow: on the first day of the year, wearing yellow brings luck. So apparently yellow underwear are under high demand by the end of the year. Wearing red apparently means you want hot sexy things to happen to you (haven't verified the information though, and it might be an exageration).
3. burn mf, burn!: they dress a kind of human-size puppet with suff they're not going to wear anymore, then they take it out on the street, throw some kerosene at it (that's what they call it, but it's probably any kind of highly volatile combustible) and... burn it. This is supposed to show that we throw the old stuff to make place for new stuff. When arguing that this could be given to charity instead, I get answered that charity doesn't want things with holes in it... pretty much as in Europe, but I would have thought people here weren't so picky about the things they receive, considering the difference between "poor" in Europe and "poor" in Peru.
4. running with a suitcase: some people, in some areas of Lima, consider running a whole "cuadra" (block) with a suitcase actually means they "travelled", so they do that on the first day of the year, then they don't need to travel anymore. Travelling is highly regarded from what I could gather, as it is proof of you having the financial resources to do it *and* the culture (afterwards) of the place you went to.

Yesterday I went to Comas again, by day this time, and didn't get attacked by "pandilleros" (gangs) like last time. The area actually looked quite good by day. It is very close to the first large hills leading to the Andes.