Bengaluru: Journalists and residents were seen participating in a creative protest against the hazardous footpaths and raised concerns over such damaged conditions rising in the city. A video went viral which shows the residents of the Bengaluru enacting the popular scene from Netflix series, squid games. People seen in the clip are running on a severely damaged footpath in the costumes of squid game characters. The video has raised concerns over the city's pedestrian infrastructure.
The video was shot near St John’s Hospital to brought attention to the hazardous conditions faced by pedestrians in one of the city’s busiest walks. As seen in the video, the group was dressed in the iconic characters of the popular Netflix series. They can be seen navigating on the cracked footpath, half opened and broken pithole, exposed cables and dearanged pathway. One of them falls on his while crossing the pithole and was narrowly saved from breaking his legs.
Video Goes Viral
What started as a fun yet important protest has now gone viral on the Internet. The video was posted on X by one of the group members, @baadalvirus. The video has already reached 318K views on the social media platform with hundreds of comments. The video was captioned as, "Its Skid game for Namma Bengaluru Journalists!"
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Netizens React:
One user commented, "LOL! Hilarious but shameful @BBMPCOMM! You plan underground tunnels, sky tower and third airport when you can’t even have proper surface roads and drains! Talk about priorities!"
Another user commented, "But i like the fact BBMP has ensured the best super speciality hospital St John Hospital is close by, so in case of emergency help is not too far"
One user commmented, Bravo. Bengaluru’s footpaths are a mess and the roads are full of potholes — the situation is terrible. Respect to all the volunteers who took this different approach to highlight the issues to BBMP. Hopefully, BBMP takes action and fixes them now"
