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India official empties dam to retrieve lost phone
- virtuabhi 3y agoIndia has some of the best stories.
- nielsbot 3y agoThis is amazing and terrible.
- sacnoradhq 3y ago1. What was on the phone that was so valuable? 2. Do they have enough water? No, but supposedly an "overflow section" of unpotable water. 3. Did they find the phone?
- melling 3y agoDid you read the article? “ By the time it was found, the phone was too water-logged to work”
- raffraffraff 3y agoAt no point during the operation, did anyone consider that it was a pointless endeavour? JFC.
- tintedfireglass 3y agoit's just a normal case of an average Indian government employee abusing their powers.
- _8j50 3y agoPerhaps blackmail vids//docs in case a bribing wealthy company goes too far in their demands. The shithole of corruption is unending spiral of extortion.
- fakedang 3y agoIf you're blackmailing someone and you have evidence, you are extremely stupid if you save it on your mobile device. That being said, he's a government official, so that explains it.
- rg111 3y agoThe article says that he was a "food inspector". What valuable data can a food inspector have that requires emptying a dam?
- _zzaw 3y agoWell, that selfie for one.
- omoikane 3y agoRelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injurie... India has the highest selfie related deaths compared to other countries.
- lamp987 3y agoproof of his corruption perhaps
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- bombcar 3y agoSomeone should invent a device that is part of a phone that if it gets wet, it inflates so the phone floats.
- Our_Benefactors 3y agoPlease tell me you’re joking. I don’t want my phone turning into a lifeboat because I dropped it in a puddle. It would also take out a ton of space to hold the inflatable bag and inflatable chemicals.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoIt could get worse. Imagine that it will start raining and it will suddenly expand in your hand like an airbag breaking your fingers in a process.
- neom 3y agoThis guy built a phone parachute, it was pretty shitty but amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCbhEHlpL8&ab_channel=WilliamOsman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCbhEHlpL8&ab_channel=Willi...
- kylehotchkiss 3y agoDidn’t lifeproof make these for devices before they got acquired?
- anonexpat 3y agoThis will almost certainly be activated most often after being dropped into a toilet.
- blondie9x 3y agoThe amount of energy wasted to do this has mitigated what thousands of households have tried to save to avert climate change. Sad. No wonder there is never any progress on climate change and greenhouse gas reductions.
- blondie9x 3y agoMeant to say, the efforts households have made to mitigate climate change have been canceled out by the terrible waste of this government employee to find a phone.
- raincom 3y agoThis Indian official is NOT an exception. Most of Indian bureaucrats are just like him--they act like princes/kings. This is applicable from the low level clerks to the top level officials; the difference is who bear the brunt.
- kamaal 3y agoThe people who pumped out the water need to thank the official that at least he made them do with a water pump. Because if he wanted he could have ordered them to drain the whole dam using buckets, and they would have to do it. The sheer power the administration wields in a country like India is stuff of the legends. Dictators would envy at having a fraction of this sort of power. They are largely invisible, wield nearly unlimited power. With the stroke of a pen they can bring whole bridges into existence and have them vanish. There are industrialists who have committed suicide out of sheer torture subjected to them by the bureaucracy in India [1]. That is just the power and influence they wield. The money part is another thing that would blow the minds of anybody who isn't familiar with the Indian society. These days in as little as a decade, even the least ranking bureaucrat in the hierarchy can be worth up to $100 million. Their children are known to run think tanks and policy groups all set to shape policy decisions for decades to come. At this much power and influence, you are pretty much like a king of princely state domain in India. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._G._Siddhartha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._G._Siddhartha This letter detailed the unbearable pressure he was subjected to over the years and the harassment he faced under the "previous" Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) (referred to as DG in the letter).
- pknerd 3y agoNot indian special. It's with the entire subcontinent
- penguin_booze 3y agoAgreed. If I've the means/chance of dominating you in any way--however small--you bet I will. I'll show you who the (momentary) boss is.
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- cute_boi 3y agoWhen I read such news, the only thing that comes to my mind is "What" ...
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- jzwinck 3y agoThe article says 2 million liters but then quotes a public official saying 41 lakh liters which means 4.1 million liters. Maybe the editor of this piece doesn't know what a lakh is: one hundred thousand (of anything).
- croes 3y agoThe 41 lakh are a politician's quote. Either he said that, is misquoted or it's a typo. Other sources mention 21lakh [0] or only 41cusecs [1] [0] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/chhattisgarh-officer-dropped-phone-in-dam-reservoir-while-taking-selfie-drained-21-lakh-litres-water-to-recover-it-4068206 https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/chhattisgarh-officer-dropped... [1] https://www.dhakatribune.com/south-asia/2023/05/27/indian-official-drains-entire-dam-to-find-lost-phone-gets-suspended https://www.dhakatribune.com/south-asia/2023/05/27/indian-of...
- StanislavPetrov 3y agoClearly this guy was in the wrong department. Should have been a general.
- anorphirith 3y agoi like how they have the surface area in hectares, kilometers and acres
- mablopoule 3y agoAs long as it's not measured in american football fields...
- tomohawk 3y agoIn other news, officials shut down the world to "flatten the curve".
- xg15 3y agoI'm concerned that he had to install a diesel pump to drain the dam and had to dump the water into a random canal. Is there no spillway? How would they drain the dam during normal operation?
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