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Thank you for confirming what my tracking skills have been telling me.
I've never had total confidence in my own efforts in this area, as so many people were saying the same things, all of which contradicted my own conjectures. I've suspected for a long time that this was just the talk of people too dimwitted or lazy to do their own hunting and so they just mimicked what other said, that loudest of what others were saying were, of course, those talking with a mouthful of red herring.
This photo was clearly taken in America, almost certainly in December. I can actually nail down the location further, but won't. You can go scrape around looking for streetlamp contractor information and the regulation on sidewalk dimensions in 300+ different localities yourself.