An engineer, on finding that the rusty nails scattered across a busy commuter road were allegedly done by nearby tyre repair companies to increase business, took it on himself to collect those nails.
In the past five years Benedict Jebakumar has collected more than 50 kilograms of rusty nails . ‘It has become a menace to society,’ he told local media.
‘I have been witnessing the willful act of repeated scattering of nails on the outer ring road in Bangalore since 2012,’ Mr Jebakumar said in an online petition to Bangalore City Police.
‘This is done by the miscreants to make money out of fixing the flat tyre caused by their nails at an exorbitant rates. I have been informing the concerned authorities for remedial action but the problem still persists.’
Earlier he would collect them hand, and now he has devised a magnetic foldable fishing rod to do it in a more timely fashion.
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