Airports can be compared to small cities. And just like in some cities, weird things can happen in them. We’ve written about some of these things in the past:
- Why Denver Int’l Airport once had a huge, hidden pile of luggage
- How much one city loved its airport’s carpeting
- Why Chicago’s O’Hare Int’l Airport has no Terminal 4
- That time when 2 Florida airports had a tweet war over…Chili’s?
But sometimes you’ll see something about an airport on the internet and say, “Nah, this just CAN’T be real.” Case in point…
As far back as 2015, a photo, allegedly taken at Chennai Int’l Airport in India, was circulating on the internet. The blue sign, supposedly from the Airports Authority of India and left near one of the airport terminal’s Gate 4, said that, by order, “S**ting on carpet strictly prohibited.”
(NOTE: Photo below contains language that is NSFW.)
We won’t go into the stereotype this sign suggests. But it was easy enough to find out what the sign had originally said, since the verbiage was in Hindi as well as English.
The Hindi text “Farsh par khana sakht mana hai” roughly translates into English as “Eating on the carpet is strictly prohibited.”
(NOTE: Once again, photo below contains language that is NSFW.)
*** Many thanks to Aniruddh S. for his help!
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