28 July
2013
Question for my friends in India
Can you help me with this?
Since the crack of dawn, my brother, dad and I have been sitting outside and enjoying the world slowly waking up. As we watched the rain soaked trees, buildings, birds and so on, we noticed something in the next building that we could not explain.
See the black, grill like overhang structure just outside the AC unit in the picture? It seems to be bolted onto the sill above. What on God’s green earth is that? What is the purpose?
My brother and I cannot seem to crack it.
Do you know? That is a AC unit, is it not?
Indian solution of protecting the AirCon from rains???
But it should be solid then, Shridhar. This one seems to be a grill…
Perhaps this is their main bedroom and they want to keep the burglars and petty thieves out of it. Or, maybe earlier they had an ac unit there, but for whatever reasons, had to move it out of the window and install it on the wall
I think its a fine grill – water wont hit the air con:) or protecting from pigeons – please send zoomed version- you are kicking up a lot of curiosity 🙂
Pigeon Net ! Dont want Pigeon crap on A/C compressor.
Shridhar, just posted another FB post with a zoomed pic.
Rajib it is for security as stated above
Rajib Roy You are proving Dalai Lama right. We spend more time talking about the neighbours than talking with them ! Go ahead and ask them.
Go ‘run’ and ask them – you are wasting intellectual bandwidth around the world:)
Subbu, has Dalai Lama ever woken up his neighbors at 4:30 am to ask some questions about their AC? 🙂
Vignesh, protect from what?
Rajib Roy its now 0642 ..bhagh rajib bhagh 🙂
BTW, please posting only such puzzles…your other puzzles are ego burstingand brain numbing ..my brain refuses to register even the first words..:)
Burglary – essentially delays the brrakin.
Shridhar. Rain soaked shoes did not dry up 🙁 No running today 🙁
Rajib Roy wtf happened to bare foot running et al:)
This possibly prevents the AC unit from being pulled out full length before stealing it. I think, I have seen it before during my Indian days.
Rajib Roy There is a caveat. Dalai Lalma has also said,” man has gone all the way to the moon and come back but has difficulty crossing the road”. In your case, with a wet pair of shoes, the risk is much more !
Ranajoy, that is awesome thinking. First I thought that might be it. Thinking further, an AC unit cannot be pulled out. The inside will prevent it. It is also installed from the inside. Also the length from the AC to this structure is pretty large
Btw, the security guy downstairs thinks it is to prevent birds crashing into the AC!!!
This post is surely going to be a case study @ ISB titled ‘What they don’t teach you at IIMA’
Rajib Roy Be more specific. It is to prevent Kingfisher from crashing…. If a thief wants to steal the a/c by pulling it out, it would be the last act in his life.
Well, this might just be result of a panic attack from the AC owner to provide him peace of mind. On similar lines, a lock(talaa) is a joke in India. It take 30 seconds for any “Tala-wallah” in India to break open a lock or to open with a wire. And this one is height. Ceramic tiles with pictures of Gods and Goddesses are used on walls to wards off people from pee-ing on walls. But guess what they do? They stand between two pictures and pee unfazed……still people instal “safety measures” 🙂
For all you know, it could be a contraption by the flat owner to keep all the neighbours jealous and occupied
It is probably a grill to protect break-ins. Rajib, you would have seen a lot of them in Bombay Flats to protect glass windows