SUDHEENDRA MURALIDHARA writes from Bangalore: This corner site with a compound in Vijaynagar used to be favourite “hang out” (pun intended) of those who firmly believed that “nature’s call” was a coded message from the high heavens to answer the call anywhere in nature. Nothing could prevent people from leaving a missed call there, until some one came up with this brainwave. “Do not piss here, Idiot,” they painted in Kannada. It worked and no one does any more.
Either Sudheendra Muralidhara hasn’t been noticing, or he is too polite. In many parts of Bangalore, there are far more stringent warnings, “Illi hesige maadu-vavaru naayi gintha kadey” being one of them. It doesn’t always work: man continues to try to prove he is dog’s best friend.
AS,
This one will work, because most Indians consider themselves as brilliant and its an affront to them to be called dumb :p
Three cheers for literacy! If only we could get our bandhus to read similar !
I have seen religious figureheads being put up by private owners on large walls where people relieve themselves. And usually these owners are quite broad minded (wily?) and have religious symbols or gods from at least 3 or 4 religions. I wonder how many people will have the guts to pee on that…
AG, don’t irritate people with your challenge. During nights when the visibility is very poor and the urgency to relieve is there nobody will have even to look at the wall,,hooooooosh
Actually Sathya, my friend and I once had the same conversation. We were waiting for our timeslot in the Basavangudi swimming pool. And there is a wall outside with religious icons of all denominations. It was night and we got thinking – will we pee on these walls knowing it has all sort of god-pictures. Both of us thought we would, but then we met some friends who were girls, we didn’t get the chance to test out our mental conditioning.
A damn new responsibility for our multitudinous gods, telling Kannadigas, “Illi uchche huyya beda.”
AG–
What if people could be persuaded that the organ responsible for this messy business gets shorter by one hundredth of a centimeter everytime one is drawn to a wall or a tree to empty his bladder?
Ha ha ha ha!