The Perils of Paris: Dog Poop and Killer Apes

David Farley, whose book, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town, about Jesus’ foreskin, has recently been released to great acclaim, tells us of the perils of Paris:

A few facts about Paris: nearly nine million tourists visited the city in 2008. More than six hundred people are sent to the hospital after slipping in dog poop each year. One thousand two hundred people who rode the metro today, ended it without their wallet. And according to Time Out Paris, an estimated 100 lions, tigers, and panthers are kept as pets in the city’s apartments.

Farley has a penchant for rooting out the interesting facts behind a place (or a venerated bit of flesh), take a gander at Monkeying Around in Paris.