Bangaluru Park "Don'ts" with Neighbors

We're here in Bangaluru (formerly Bangalore) for a Gate 1 tour of Southern India. (More about that later.) On a pre-tour Viator excursion, we visited Lalbagh Botannical Park. While I'll have more on that later, the thing that I got a kick out of were all of the "DON'T" signs. Most are self-explanatory. The one about snakes really caught my attention.

At the hotel breakfast, we met Daryl and Chris who are also going on the Gate One tour. Plus, they are the only other people on our pre-tour Viator city tour of Bangaluru. Amazingly, they are from the Fisher's Landing area of Vancouver. We're practically neighbors!

Deema (right), a kind and patient man, is our tour guide for the day.

(The lawyers are lining up!

Apparently, pigeons are a different species from "other birds".

"Walking and sitting on lawn is prohibited. If rules are break penalty will be charged." (Except for monkeys.)

"Do not climb on trees. Do not use tree branches to swing. Do not stand under the tree during rains and heavy winds."

"No noise. No music."

"Doing exercise by using benches, electric poles and other park infrastructure is prohibited."

Two don'ts in one. Or maybe it means not to spit on gatherings.

"Stay away from electric poles, junction boxes."

(The trash bins are included because they are a rare sight in India and only get partially used in the park.)

The only other place for litter instructions is in the airport. Later, I'll include photos of trash piles everywhere. People just toss things out the window, like they're starting to do in the USA. (Anyone else notice this crappy trend?)

If they're talking about the rose garden, no worries. No one is allowed to walk among the roses, let alone smell them. 

"Doing exercise by using benches, electric poles and other park infrastructure is prohibited."

"There are snakes in bushes, holes in lawns please beaware." (sic)

This wasn't in the park, but it's silly because there seem to be no traffic rules except that a horn must be used. Plus, the sign isn't facing the oncoming traffic! Who's reading it?

We see similar offers in the USA. Doesn't everyone want to be an executive?

"Don't Urinate"

I don't know why I didn't take a photo of this sign. Maybe it's because they were everywhere and ignored. Lots of public urinating by males of all species. (Some were more subtle than others.)