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Aaj Tak is showing home video clips in which people captured Earthquake tremors. There were three clips shown.
1. A boy 7-8 year old sitting on a sofa. His dad captured him and the swinging chandelier and the fan above this kid. The kid says something and then the man is heard asking his son to go out while he keeps videoshooting. This clip of 5 seconds ( I counted) was shown 9 times (for 45 seconds) consecutively.
Now if you are in a house experiencing earthquake tremors what would you do:
A. Take your kids and run out to safety.
B. Keep video-shooting the swinging chandeliers and fans.
2. Next video was of swinging chandelier for 3 seconds showing for 1 minute and the guy says " Look a (sic) earthquake.".. as is he is sight-seeing. " Look Eiffel Tower."
3. The third was more realistic. Three friends are sitting on sofa. There is a coffee table in front. Suddenly tremors start and and the guy who is in the middle suddenly stands up, jumps over the table and runs out. He actually used the guy on his right to propel himself forward (grabbed his shoulder and pushed him back to go forward). Maybe I should say "three people" and not "three friends".
All the channels are showing what you should do when Earthquake hits. My wife just made an excellent point that we should show these tips after news or some other time also. Its hardly of any use when the main thing has come and gone. People might forget all these tips by the time they are really needed.
( They just showed some politicians using this opportunity to kiss some a*. One minister actually said that he thought it was the effect of the Prime Minister's earth shaking speech. You are getting that portfolio that you always wanted.)
1. A boy 7-8 year old sitting on a sofa. His dad captured him and the swinging chandelier and the fan above this kid. The kid says something and then the man is heard asking his son to go out while he keeps videoshooting. This clip of 5 seconds ( I counted) was shown 9 times (for 45 seconds) consecutively.
Now if you are in a house experiencing earthquake tremors what would you do:
A. Take your kids and run out to safety.
B. Keep video-shooting the swinging chandeliers and fans.
2. Next video was of swinging chandelier for 3 seconds showing for 1 minute and the guy says " Look a (sic) earthquake.".. as is he is sight-seeing. " Look Eiffel Tower."
3. The third was more realistic. Three friends are sitting on sofa. There is a coffee table in front. Suddenly tremors start and and the guy who is in the middle suddenly stands up, jumps over the table and runs out. He actually used the guy on his right to propel himself forward (grabbed his shoulder and pushed him back to go forward). Maybe I should say "three people" and not "three friends".
All the channels are showing what you should do when Earthquake hits. My wife just made an excellent point that we should show these tips after news or some other time also. Its hardly of any use when the main thing has come and gone. People might forget all these tips by the time they are really needed.
( They just showed some politicians using this opportunity to kiss some a*. One minister actually said that he thought it was the effect of the Prime Minister's earth shaking speech. You are getting that portfolio that you always wanted.)
posted by Nikhil at 10:48 AM
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