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Coconuts removed in India ahead of Obama visit
BBC ^ | 11/03/2010 | Prachi Pinglay

Posted on 11/03/2010 2:19:28 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Officials in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have taken extraordinary measures to protect US President Barack Obama ahead of his visit.

In their effort to provide maximum security in the run-up to his visit on Friday, they have removed coconuts which may fall on his head from trees.

All coconuts around the city's Gandhi museum have now been cut down, an official told the BBC.

Every year in India people are injured or even killed by falling coconuts.

'Why take a chance?'

Mani Bhavan, where Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his freedom struggle against the British, is among five places the US president is visiting apart from a school, college and hotels attacked by Islamic militants in 2008.

"We told the authorities to remove the dry coconuts from trees near the building. Why take a chance?" Mani Bhavan's executive secretary, Meghshyam Ajgaonkar, told the BBC.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coconuts; hairynut; napl; obama; obamaindiatrip
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To: Doogle

What is he some kind of emperor?


41 posted on 11/03/2010 2:42:42 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Doogle

Aw hell, nothing could hurt that head. He probably wouldn’t even notice if a coconut dropped on his head.


42 posted on 11/03/2010 2:43:03 PM PDT by dforest
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To: southernnorthcarolina

43 posted on 11/03/2010 2:43:38 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

....what would you think, if 40 planes and an entourage of 3000 arrived in your poverty stricken country?


44 posted on 11/03/2010 2:45:07 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

Is this a joke?


45 posted on 11/03/2010 2:45:28 PM PDT by altura
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To: Doogle

Note to India.
If its got big ears, moves constantly from side to side and simply won’t shut up ... its NOT a coconut.


46 posted on 11/03/2010 2:47:15 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: tflabo

O makes a GREAT acorn! :D


47 posted on 11/03/2010 2:47:34 PM PDT by ThePatrioticArtist
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To: Doogle
Obama's coconut moment?.....
48 posted on 11/03/2010 2:48:04 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Doogle

Removing the dry coconuts from the trees won’t prevent a laden swallow bombing run.


49 posted on 11/03/2010 2:48:15 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: STARWISE; maggief; onyx; hoosiermama; Nachum; Liz; SE Mom

ROTFLOL Ping!


50 posted on 11/03/2010 2:48:41 PM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Zathras

LMAO.........


51 posted on 11/03/2010 2:48:41 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Brookhaven

52 posted on 11/03/2010 2:50:20 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: windcliff; onedoug

ping


53 posted on 11/03/2010 2:52:13 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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To: Charles Martel
Exactly!...
54 posted on 11/03/2010 2:52:17 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Responsibility2nd

55 posted on 11/03/2010 2:52:45 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 651 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: altura

....THE JOKE IS ON US,...TO THE TUNE OF 2.2 billion FOR THIS TRIP.


56 posted on 11/03/2010 2:52:58 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: altura

Although there are a lot of funny things about this thread, the threat of falling coconuts is not a joke.

One almost killed ME on my honeymoon in Fiji back in 1990. I stopped and plopped down on a stretch of grass next to the resort hotel to enjoy another bottle of Fiji Bitter (good beer, btw), and after a few moments of relaxation was shocked by a loud THUD about two feet to the left of my head. Coconut.

Picked that sucker up. Must have weighed five pounds at least. Left an imprint in the soft soil and grass about three inches deep. Looked up at the tree and saw there were several other nuts hanging from the sucker.

Man... I MOVED!!!!


57 posted on 11/03/2010 2:55:29 PM PDT by Ronin (If he were not so gruesomely incompetent and dangerous, Obama would just be silly.)
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To: Blind Eye Jones

Precisely. They should be worried about some Sikh SOB, not coconuts.


58 posted on 11/03/2010 2:59:29 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: Charles Martel

the remnants of a dissolved corn kernel at mach 3 might do the trick

59 posted on 11/03/2010 2:59:35 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: southernnorthcarolina

Amazing resemblance. Add lipstick and a string of pearls, and the coconut looks just like Mrs O.

60 posted on 11/03/2010 3:03:03 PM PDT by Liz (Nov 2 will be one more stitch in Obama's political shroud.)
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