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.
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What is he some kind of emperor?
Aw hell, nothing could hurt that head. He probably wouldn’t even notice if a coconut dropped on his head.
....what would you think, if 40 planes and an entourage of 3000 arrived in your poverty stricken country?
Is this a joke?
Note to India.
If its got big ears, moves constantly from side to side and simply won’t shut up ... its NOT a coconut.
O makes a GREAT acorn! :D
Removing the dry coconuts from the trees won’t prevent a laden swallow bombing run.
ROTFLOL Ping!
LMAO.........
ping
....THE JOKE IS ON US,...TO THE TUNE OF 2.2 billion FOR THIS TRIP.
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!!!!
Precisely. They should be worried about some Sikh SOB, not coconuts.
the remnants of a dissolved corn kernel at mach 3 might do the trick
Amazing resemblance. Add lipstick and a string of pearls, and the coconut looks just like Mrs O.
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