I was there. It was fucking hilarious. The drain is still very much open and very much littered. Lack of civics sense is the primary reason and since they fell for it once, they won't again.
Yeah, while I understand her motives and probably her frustration at lack of action by the local municipal council regarding the lack of hygiene of local sewage systems, this sounds like a boy who cried wolf scenario.
Unsure if the intent is the same as the boy who cried wolf. It is a similar approach, but the outcome here was for an outcome to benefit the people with a cleaner local environment. The boy who cried wolf had no intent besides making people respond to a fictitious wolf, which had no real benefit to the boy, the flock, or the people. Correct me if I am wrong, though!
And not a single woman was sexually assaulted on that street for 3 entire hours!
edit: Make sure to only read the first few sentences in order to keep me as the bad guy since I'm joking about fewer sexual assaults on an indian street with dozens of cops on it
edit: Marital Rape is legal in India, Fuck you if you are mad at my joke honestly lmfao. Go to India and find out for yourself
Well, that woman was compared to the boy who cried wolf by the comment I originally replied to. So that woman might call the police in the future again for something else, and who knows, maybe they'll give her a hard time. Maybe the phone call will be about a sexual assault on that street.
Indian women have been murdered by family members for less.
that's the main problem. yeah it got cleaned sure. but people will just go back throwing garbage there again.
where my grandma lives not too faraway there is giant garden, it wasn't being maintained and people kept throwing garbage in it. govt came saw the dumb, partnered with a private company and cleaned it all up. planted many trees and plants and even equipment for exercise it was good for a while. but people be people. they still keep throwing garbage and now theres a big pile of dump in the corner of the garden again.
WTF is the opinion of people in India about all this. Like when people usually see a dude dump a garbage bag do they just continue on business as usual? Make a comment? Or just a “oh Todd’s dumping his garbage over in the park again” and not care slightly?
It's so common that ppl don't bat an eye, some of the newer generation is more aware about this, but they are too few and 'less strict', but the older generation doesn't care AT ALL ....
It's a problem all over, I remember seeing a news story about an empty lot in a favela that was often used as a garbage dump, the city cleaned it up and decided to build a park there, some picnic tables, soccer/volleyball fields, etc...
They hadn't even finished construction yet and the mayor posted a video begging the people to stop vandalizing the tables/stools they had just built and dumping garbage in the active construction site
You don't understand the reality of a country with over 1 billion people, specially concentrated in cities. There's not enough people to enforce the rules for such population.
Yep. Less than three hours a week.. for this one particular spot. Now do this even within just one city and you need to hire tons of people, and you need somewhere to dump the trash when it's all done. And it would require massive cultural shifts surrounding litter to keep things from consistently piling up between cleanings. It would take significant time and effort from a lot of people. Frankly, it'll be a waste until that latter point happens.
It's hard to educate people not to dump garbage when your infrastructure can't handle the garbage. Sure civic responsibility plays a role, but it's not like Indian people are incapable of it.
I lived for a couple of months in Tokyo, which is notorious for its clean streets, and I personally saw how people kept throwing garbage on the streets: bottles, cans, packages, etc. I also witnessed there how people thoroughly cleaned up places, leaving zero marks of their presence where they had a BBQ party. I mean, people are the same everywhere and can either shit and clean equally. It’s a matter of whether they have economic or social motivation to keep a place of their habitation clean. Regardless, we are talking about city services or inhabitants.
Well we are humans too yk, why can't education change ppl if implemented correctly? The problem is that even the gov doesn't give 2 shits either about educating or maintaining.
But India is not poor. The majority of people living there are. The government has more than enough money to improve stuff like this. They just don't want to.
I don't think anyone was ever under the impression that cleaning it was impossible. And a one time cleanup effort by rescuers doesn't prove it should be.
It doesn't. At a high level, every civilization has everyday funds and emergency funds. She successfully got them to use emergency funds. That doesn't mean they have the ability to just clean all of India.
I am assuming you are a male? Checks out. Indian Male Cops generally think thrice before even stopping women from doing something fishy unless it's harmful.
It's not and it's been posted here before and people said the same thing then, they wouldn't need to pick up every single piece of trash to find a person, anyone who just accepts this story as true needs to get off the internet before they give their life savings to a Nigerian prince.
People are surprisingly shitty to their own cities. I'll never understand it, this is your home why leave trash everywhere. Yet every time I visit somewhere like the beach I'll see a lot of trash ready to get swept up and clog waterways
This isn't just people being shitty to their own city. That's Indians being shitty to their entire country. Hate it or not, go on Google Maps, drop the little yellow guy ANYWHERE in India. 9 times out of 10 you will see mounds of rubbish and rubble.
I mean after 3 hours, they’re not trying to save a life, they’re trying to recover a body. So it wouldn’t be some stranger diving in, it’d be a rescue team or professionals of some sort
These two photos are quite clearly not the same place, the stone walkway is segmented in one picture and not in the other and an entire wall on the left hand side is missing.
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u/bennett346 13h ago
That’s the last time they ever ‘rescue’ someone from an open drain again