Culture Indian Police to use drones to stop open defecation

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/17/c_136760382.htm

NEW DELHI, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Southern Indian state of Telanagana has embarked on a unique way to get rid of open defecation, using drones.

As a pilot project, cops have deployed drones on the banks of a local reservoir in the state's Karimnagar district to prevent people from defecating near the dam.

The Lower Manair Dam is a drinking water source for the people of Karimnagar town and "if successful, the scheme will be replicated in other districts also", officials said on Friday.

Local police chief V.B. Kamalasan Reddy said the scheme has already started yielding results. "The number of people indulging in open defecation has come down drastically," he told the media.

Urination and defecation in the open are common in several parts of rural India and even in some semi-urban areas and a few urban areas too.

This is despite the Indian government offering cash incentives to subsidise construction of toilets, and initiating hygiene and sanitation awareness campaigns like "No Toilet, No Bride".

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made eliminating open defecation in this country a priority, and wants every home to be installed with a toilet by 2019.

 

[KM 749]

The Party of 2084 adjusts its goals and restrictions to fit the weaknesses of its subjects.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

They're gonna find a way to shit all over those drones I just know it

 

[Ti-99/4A]

I know what kind of drone they use but I still pictured Pajeet being chased by one of these drones after shitting in the street.

 

[JSGOTI]

I'd prefer these drones.

 

[A Hot Potato]

India was a mistake.

 

[polonium]

they don't even have the sense not shit in their own drinking water.

Animals know not to shit in their drinking water.

 

[A Hot Potato]

they don't even have the sense not shit in their own drinking water.

Animals know not to shit in their drinking water.

Anybody who isn't white is an animal though.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

The important question is this: do the drones drop bombs?

 

[VoidMachine]

The important question is this: do the drones drop bombs?

I was hoping they'd be predator drones. I wanna see Nina get a hellfire missile shot at him for shitting where he shouldn't. That'd be some Monty python level shit.

 

[RG 448]

So what do the drones actually do when they catch a rogue pooper? Do they just ID them so cops can follow up later or do they actually speak to the perp through the drone? Because if the end result is someone trying to take a dump in public with a drone hovering down next to him going “Stop right there, criminal scum!”, then the future isn’t as bleak as I thought.

 

[frozenrunner]

I was hoping they'd be predator drones. I wanna see Nina get a hellfire missile shot at him for shitting where he shouldn't. That'd be some Monty python level shit.

How Not to be Seen Shitting

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

World power by 2020!

 

[millais]

@Cute Anime Girl

 

[Male Idiot]

This is how the Shitnet was born, and in a few years the Poopminator will pick Pajeet up and put him in the loo!

 

[Sperglord Dante]

If India found the way to weaponize street shitting they'd be a military super power by next week.

 

[Ti-99/4A]

If India found the way to weaponize street shitting they'd be a military super power by next week.

I still can't get over how they've got nuclear weapons and a space program, yet half the country isn't even potty trained.

 

[Transvaalan]

I still can't get over how they've got nuclear weapons and a space program, yet half the country isn't even potty trained.

Priorities. In fact, their nuclear program is the only military procurement that wasn't and isn't a complete clusterfuck with a shitty result.

 

[MrLobe]

Urination and defecation in the open are common in several parts of rural India and even in some semi-urban areas and a few urban areas too.

So everywhere, then.

 

[Dysnomia]

they don't even have the sense not shit in their own drinking water.

Animals know not to shit in their drinking water.

I just don't understand India. They think that it's unsanitary to have a toilet in or near the house. Yet it's perfectly reasonable to turn your water supply into a septic tank. They probably have some level of immunity to diseases that spread this way. But people are still getting sick and the streets are gross.

Has anyone ever been to India? does it smell bad? I can imagine many areas smelling like an open sewer and people being so used to it that they don't care.