Mr Obama will arrive in India on Saturday for the first leg of an Asian tour.
But as well as the usual security measures that come with welcoming a a visiting dignitary, Indian authorities have decided to go one step further, by removing all natural threats to the president as well. All coconuts around the city’s Gandhi museum, one of Mr Obama’s stops in the city, are being taken down.
Mani Bhavan, where Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his freedom struggle against the British, is among five places the US president is visiting in Mumbai. “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. Last week American security officers inspected Mani Bhavan and its surroundings along with other places the president is likely to visit.
Every year in India people are injured or even killed by falling coconuts. Mr Obama, still smarting from heavy losses in the midterm elections, will visit India, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan and China on the 10-day tour.
What are the odds? Actually this is pretty routine for resorts in “killer” coconut palm infested areas.
—along with his 34 ship armada…i’d say Mr. O has some rather interesting intel that some pissed off people after his lying butt, to go all these extremes.
(they are prolly making sure no coconuts are not bombs incognito..)
One is reminded of Henny Penny and Chicken Little.
No telling what Obama might think or do if a coconut clonked him on the head out of a clear blue sky.
# 22 RSweeney I know what I doing, I am still laughing at Republicans masturbating at their continual inaccurate info-porn for the republisheep to masturbate to.
Dumb people are so funny!!
#22 It will not do the Messiah be knocked unconscious by a coconut falling from the heavens.
These coconuts are not the weapons of mass destruction that Bush was looking for…
This story originated with the BBC. Fox just repeated it. How dare they.
Instructions for losers and haters:
1…Borrow a computer
2…go to Google.com
3…In the little white box type “Obama+Coconuts”
4…Start sending hate mail to BBC
5…Return your mom’s computer
6…get a life
7…Please go away
Wow, conservatives are so petty about Obama.
Serious people don’t care if coconuts have been removed from trees in India.
This is all perfectly reasonable, anyway. When I lived in India, I’d see a coconut fall from a tree, now and again, and I’d think, “I’m glad that didn’t hit me.”
If I was holding an event under coconut trees — VIP OR NOT — I’d probably pay a guy to knock down the loose ones since even one falling coconut would probably injure someone. It would probably cost you about five bucks to prevent someone from being hurt.
Of course, conservatives would pocket the five bucks, let someone get hurt, and say, “No one could have foreseen that! Don’t blame me!”
>> Alfred Persson said, on November 5th, 2010 at 3:24 am
>> #22 It will not do the Messiah be knocked unconscious by a coconut falling from the heavens.
Have you guys noticed that it is ONLY the conservatives who call or think of Obama as “the Messiah”?
This conservative view of Obama is both creepy and dumb. Are conservatives being “dreepy” or
crumby”?
#27 We don’t us Obama’s excuses…”I threw billions in stimulus at it…no one could have foreseen that wouldn’t work…Don’t blame me.”
Most people would have watched to see if the first few hundred got the car out of the ditch…and quit spending after that…Not (“I got stimulus!”) Obama.
#28 He earned the title when he said “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” and “this is the day they will say the seas started to lower.”
# 17 Alfred – “Big Butt Michele”
You know, I’m no fan of Obama nor of Michelle. But to attack based on a physical feature? How about we stop calling you Alfie and start calling you Pencil Dick?
Counterweight. Yep, Alfred tossed a pathetic douche-casting turd. He feels inadequate around “negros”.
#31 Satire, irony, is acceptable humor in political discourse.
Her butt is getting bigger, its noticeable with each speech against obesity she gives.
If “Attack of the Killer Coconuts” is made, I think a scene of a fit and trim coconut chomping on her big butt would be hilarious.
#32 Are you saying Negros have big butts, that is racist on many levels.
Liberals are racist at the core, that’s why they project racism on everyone they see.
The founding fathers were not racists, the constitution is not racist, conservatives are not racists…we believe all men are created equal.
That denial of liberal racism is why you all hate the constitution, and elect progressives to the courts to destroy it.
You are the real racists…Let’s not forget, Bull Conner was a Democrat…and it was Democrats who fought against the Republican Lincoln.
#31 start with Salon Magazine
http://salon.com/life/feature/2008/11/18/michelles_booty
#34 No. I’m saying you’re inadequate. You’re the reason America is circling the drain.
#36 Now you are evading the issue, you projected your racism on me.
Michele (growing butt) Obama is on crusade against obesity, but her butt is growing obese.
That is ripe for satire.
You called her a Negro, and projected that stereotype of Negros with big butts, on to me, when my satire couldn’t possibly be mistaken as racist…except by a racist.
Now you are deflecting your coming out of the racist closet, to make this about me.
Its not, its all about you and your racist liberal philosophy.
Accomplished Blacks outside of the military have been ripped of by liberal racists like you…
Because you suppose they are inferior, you advance affirmative action to make things equal…but then refuse to allow affirmative action lawyers, doctors, accountants, service your needs.
In the military, where conservative reigns, where all men are created equal, and rewarded for merit, no one cares if the General is white or black, for both scaled the same walls to get there.
You progressive racists are the reason why America is going down, and hopefully, the public is waking up to see precisely that.
Alfred, you’re still full of BS. You support racists, therefore you condone racism. I’m sure you love your country, you just hate most of the people who live in it.
All resorts remove old coconuts because they fell and kill/hurt people. I used to live in place with crap load of coconut trees. There are a lot of kids around and adult will remove all the brown ones just in case they fall.
Last thing they want is dried up coconut fell on American President head or any American for that matter.
#38 Incorrect, I support the Constitution, and it liberates…
You are deflecting, you need help…”negro” is so racist…big butt negro especially so…and that came from you.