As such mid-afternoon traffic on the busy NS Road in BBD Bag is nothing less than a hell of chaos. To that if there is an addition of mad scramble among bystanders to collect banknotes out of thin air, one may imagine what would ensue. Precisely that is what happened yesterday in front of 14 NS Road beside the Standard Chartered building.
For many it’s a dream of a lifetime. In real life it’s something that perhaps can only be imagined in movies. It’s about raining of 100 rupee notes emerging from the building. The shower lasted for quite awhile (some say 15 minutes), heavy initially, sporadic later.
Not many though could cash in, which is understandable because it would have needed an extremely agile sporty ability to reap bonanza in the melee.
The police came soon, went up the building to the terrace. But alas, by then just about all the banknotes have rained. More than willing to find the cause, they rued that they didn’t have ‘advance’ information of it.
But the police were not alone to blame their ‘ill luck’. There were several others, Nazrul Islam for example, who had to remain content with seeing it all happen. Didn’t he want to be right under the money rain. You bet he did, but all he could do was push and shove, push and shove till he found he couldn’t move an inch ahead.
Will something like this happen again? Bookies are not willing to bet. But of course, they are right. We all know such things can happen once in blue moon, kabhi kabhi.
[Collated from March 22 ABP]
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