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.
(Source: Telegraph UK)
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Reminds me of Major Healy singing;
“Here i’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts,
Here they are standing in row”
V’hamaven yovin.
It’s too bad they removed the coconuts. If one fell on his head, it might have knocked some sense into him.
It’s the “Everywhere But Home Tour”, Take 2!
Are they going to remove the monkeys that swing from the coconut trees?
“When the cat is gone the mice come out to play”
Maybe we can actually get something done during those 10 days he’s outta here …