PhotosIndia: Stealing bananas to recharge cell phones? It's done in Bihar
Need money to recharge your mobile phone and don't have any? Just steal a bunch of bananas and sell it to buy a recharge coupon - that is what poor youths in Bihar's Raghopur area are doing to keep their mobiles ringing.
With some cellular companies providing free SIM cards along with cell phones, many poor youths have purchased mobiles. But they don't have money to keep the chatting going.
They have started sneaking into banana fields and stealing bunches of the fruit to pay for the coupons.
This new phenomena is giving sleepless nights to banana cultivators in Raghopur diara, riverine area in Vaishali district, known for its large banana fields.
The youths steal bananas and sell them at throwaway prices to recharge cell phones, said Mahendra Rai, a major cultivator in Raghopur diara.
The theft of bananas has forced Ramji Rai, another cultivator, to deploy guards in his big field.
Source: mangalorean.com
Need money to recharge your mobile phone and don't have any? Just steal a bunch of bananas and sell it to buy a recharge coupon - that is what poor youths in Bihar's Raghopur area are doing to keep their mobiles ringing.
With some cellular companies providing free SIM cards along with cell phones, many poor youths have purchased mobiles. But they don't have money to keep the chatting going.
They have started sneaking into banana fields and stealing bunches of the fruit to pay for the coupons.
This new phenomena is giving sleepless nights to banana cultivators in Raghopur diara, riverine area in Vaishali district, known for its large banana fields.
The youths steal bananas and sell them at throwaway prices to recharge cell phones, said Mahendra Rai, a major cultivator in Raghopur diara.
The theft of bananas has forced Ramji Rai, another cultivator, to deploy guards in his big field.
Source: mangalorean.com
Publication date: 9/15/2009
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