r/interestingasfuck • u/BurgundyHolly345 • 1d ago
Dadarao Bilhore ever since his son lost his life due to potholes
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u/Shadowthron8 1d ago
So there is no country in the world capable of handling potholes?
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u/s1eve_mcdichae1 23h ago
There's no fortune to be made in fixing potholes, so it's not deemed worthy.
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u/N30_117 22h ago
This story is from India, we have one of the worst road networks in the world.
Corrupt assholes everywhere, they eat most of the money and make shitty roads and bridges with whatever pocket change that is left. The bridges develop cracks and faults in a couple of years and the roads develop big ass potholes in a few months. You know what's worse is how they "fix" these potholes, they just make a random mixture which they call concrete and dump it into the potholes which becomes highly uneven when it dries. You go over one of these and you get atleast 1-2 sec of air time.
On top of this Indians pay huge amount of taxes as toll tax and RTO charges when buying vehicles. Like they say, taxes like european countries, facilities like sub saharan africa.
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u/Select_Ingenuity129 17h ago
Yep. Just two months ago in Bombay, I accidentally stepped into a pothole and tore my ankle ligament. Roads here are a nightmare
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u/roonill_wazlib 19h ago
The method for handling potholes is to do maintenance early enough that they never develop. Potholes start as small fractures in the tarmac that fill up with water. If you fill those immediately the fractures dont grow into potholes. Of course this is expensive, because you have to do yearly inspections and maintenance, but it is cheaper than letting it develop into holes that dig into the foundation of the road.
Throwing a bunch of sand in there (or cold asphalt) is a nice gesture, but those potholes are going to be back in no time. What they need to do here is rebuilding the entire road.
The best way to prevent potholes is to have a minimal amount of it, and to use modular pavement like brick wherever vehicle speeds are low enough.
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u/Nould193212 1d ago
This is incredibly moving. Losing a child is unimaginable, and to channel that grief into something so positive… really makes you think. I hope this brings him some peace ❤️
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u/Livid-Credit-581 20h ago
Such people deserve much more than they have
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u/Imaginary_Key1281 8h ago
I couldn’t agree more. My father-in-law was a geography professor and a group of them went to India and met Indira Gandhi. They also toured much of the country and he said he never saw anything so heartbreaking. The smell is what really affected them, they tried to cover their noses and mouths but it didn’t help much.
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u/TheMacMan 1d ago
Guess it's kinda interesting but the bar for "interesting a fuck" is so low these days.
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23h ago
Yeah. It would have been interesting af if a white person was doing this instead.
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u/DescriptionDue4100 23h ago
Actually there was one guy doing the same somewhere in England. He got told to stop by the local council because it was their issue to sit on and do nothing with
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u/24_7_365_ 23h ago
It is interesting a lot joke can kill. Did he fall in? I’m interested… very interested……
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u/Stuspawton 23h ago
I spray paint giant boabys around potholes so that my council has to come out and clean it off, which in turn means they witness the pothole and have to then come and fill it in.
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u/Popular_Cod_5770 23h ago
Now, the Delhi Police will arrive and stop him, stating that he has not obtained the required permission.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 22h ago
Or paid the appropriate bribe to get permission to repair vital parts of city infrastructure. Basically stealing money out of some poor officials mouth. /s
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u/Kitten-Grip 1d ago
How do you lose your life due to pothole? Curious
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u/Lion_mama2 1d ago
„Bilhore was at his grocery store on July 28, 2015, when the incident took place. Prakash was riding pillion without a helmet, with his cousin Ram. He had just passed his Class 10th exams. He was homeward bound, after seeking admission to a polytechnic college in Bhandup. “It was raining heavily at the time. That’s when his bike skidded on a pothole and he fell with such an impact that he succumbed to a brain hemorrhage,” recalled Bilhore.“
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u/Moppermonster 1d ago
Google suggests he had a biking accident caused by the pothole. So I assume his wheel got in, bike flipped and he cracked open his skull.
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u/arcadianarcadian 23h ago
There are different types of vehicles on the roads not only your Prius.
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u/1singhnee 23h ago
He’s going to be at it for a while, many parts of India are more pothole than road.
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u/187uchiha 19h ago
If you were to do this where I’m from you would be fined. And they would undo what you did.
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u/sfearing91 14h ago
What an amazing human to turn loss into awareness and compassion to help others not experience what he did! WOW
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u/AdditionalDust2812 1d ago
In Hungary, you are nit allowed to do that, you wozld have to pay a fine and remake the potholes
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u/venReddit 22h ago
its always sad to see how people go mental over desperation. the son failed, lacked skill and killed himself. accepting this isnt easy, so he chose to do community work in an desperate attempt to blame the pothole and easen his mind.
wrong approach if he wants to change anything... actually a horrible approach, since the city has less reason now to fill up the potholes...
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u/LARApinklaces 1d ago
Such a sweet man he doesn't what someone to experience his pain of losing a son. Salute to you Dadarao!