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In London, another
amusing ban on the list is not to use balloons for decoration as people
could develop latex allergy. In India, we have not yet banned burning
waste in the open by the sweepers. The toxic fumes, the environmental
degradation is still acceptable to us. Students in Eton are
not allowed to change bulbs themselves. In India, people in unauthorised
colonies use ‘kundis’ to steal electricity. Till today, no one has
been able to stop them. Children in Norwich are required to take permission before they can throw snowballs at each other. Here people don’t require permission to pelt stones at moving buses. There banners cannot be
put up as they could fall on the fast moving traffic. Here electricity
departments allow live wires to hang loosely in congested inhabited
areas. Sometimes these wires do manage to fall on the moving traffic,
thereby giving them an ‘electrifying’ experience of their life. |
The
Mirror of London has compiled a list of the most bizarre recent bans in
the UK on the grounds of safety. For example, hanging baskets are banned
as they can fall on somebody’s head. In India, if a list is made of
the things that are not banned, the list may well turn out to be weird.
Trucks carrying steel rods and pipes openly, without any cover on the
highways, is a common sight in India. The sharp iron bars hang so
dangerously`A0that they sometimes pierce through the vehicles that are
following the truck.