Problems surrounding potholes and craters in a city are quite common. However, residents of a street got so frustrated and tired of the authorities not coming in for help that they actually had a havan so that these holes on the roads could get fixed.?
A video has emerged on the internet from the streets of the tech city of India, Bengaluru. In this video, residents could be seen gathered around a pothole filled with stale water while a priest chants holy mantras to invoke gods.?
The pothole in the visual is also decorated with a flower garland and people around it can be seen joining hands as if they are praying. The two priests are throwing holy water in the fire while chanting prayers.?
The video was posted by Twitter user Rakesh Prakash. He captioned it - "POTHOLE puja in Bengaluru!Frustrated by potholes & craters, citizens invoke gods. Puja on Campbell Road by Bharathinagar Residents Forum. Why can¡¯t the tech-city fix its roads?"
This video got much-needed attention on social media and got viral. While many criticized the authorities for leaving potholes unattended, many thought it was a good idea to at least them embarrassed. A lot of people even tagged the authorities of Bengaluru to this video so that they could do the needful as soon as possible.?
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Several times people have found innovative ways to grab the authorities attention to fix potholes in their areas and the city and honestly, this problem is universal. A few months ago, fed up with a dangerous pothole located in the middle of a street, a Florida man decided to make a statement about road conditions by filling the cement hole with a banana tree.
This man who owns a business on the same street where the pothole was located mentioned that his security cameras have watched the hole repeatedly cause damage to cars.??
Another innovative idea made authorities actually fix the pothole. An Indonesian man bathed and pretended to do fishing in the pothole that authorities were neglecting for far too long. The man actually used to sit inside the pothole fully clothed and used a mug to take a bath inside it. He even sat cross-legged on a plastic chair with an umbrella in his hand and fished in the middle of the flooded pothole.
Whatever gets the job done, right??
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