Mera Bharat Mahaan - year round Diwali in the airport

This is hilarious and revealing - airports around the country have been using fire-crackers to keep the birds away. Now the Min of Home Affairs (MHA) has woken up to the fact that this is a security risk.

Why ?

Because someone wrapped a few fire-crackers in a newspaper and placed it in an aircraft in Thiruvananthapuram.

Firecracker planted on aircraft in Thiruvananthapuram: CISF

The funny part is that these blokes set fire to the grass in Mumbai airport, and called is a small incident !

Grass near Mumbai airport runway catches fire
PTI, Jan 13, 2010, 03.51pm IST
MUMBAI: A patch of grass near the main runway caught fire at the Mumbai airport but was quickly doused by the airport fire service personnel.

The incident took place around 2 pm when 'bird scarers' were bursting crackers to chase away birds that pose problems in flight operations.

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Like they say this is a funny country lekiin Mera Bharat Mahaan and it will be mahaan when we have people like this.

The 40 odd guys employed to burst crackers surely have a nice job - year round Diwali ! And now that the MHA is banning firecrackers they are going to become scarecrows