Monkey motions

GUYANA Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday issued a press release aimed at drawing attention to some dangerous monkey tricks that young people in Central Ruimveldt in Georgetown are performing in the compound of its Central Ruimveldt water treatment plant, which is in the final stages of completion. According to the company, youths have been destroying portions of the perimeter fence around the facility to get into an area known as the `backwash lagoon’ where they perform bicycle stunts and other monkey tricks.

What is surprising is that the culprits disregard danger signs GWI said it has posted on the fence warning trespassers off.

According to Project Manager, GWI, Ramchand Jailall, “the backwash lagoon contains harsh chemicals which can cause severe harm should they come in contact with human skin.”

Mr. Jailall added that the `backwash lagoon’ is highly dangerous since it is 19 feet deep, and “should a child fall, this could most certainly lead to death.”

These are dangerous pranks indeed and GWI should link with others to expose the foolishness of it all.

GWI Chief Executive Yuri Chandisingh says the company is prepared to partner with the police force to stop the trespassing at the facility and this may help stem the misguided acts.

Public exposure of the folly can also help stop the culprits since youths especially are vulnerable to being made to look like fools.

A few carefully hidden cameras taking top quality footage of the monkey tricks with the identities of the performers in clear view, spliced in short TV commercials and aired at prime time, can work wonders.

It’s an avenue we think GWI can explore since appeals to residents and a raid by community police have not yet yielded any fruit.

People sometimes learn only through harsh methods and TV exposure can reap rich dividends for GWI, since no one wants to contemplate any serious injury or worse yet, a death to anyone, from the monkey motions in its `backwash lagoon’.

`Hard ears’ young ones, to use a Guyanese term, will learn the error of their ways much faster with some good wringing of the ears.

Maybe the police force should also consider seeking funding for some hidden cameras at strategic points on busy streets and highways to capture and expose deviants – including drunk drivers, speedsters and those who break other traffic rules.

That should provide some good local prime time TV viewing and better yet, help to bring a little more order on the roads of this country.

People will welcome TV appearances that make them look good.

But it’s a totally different scene when their misdeeds are exposed for the world to see and most people will generally desist from getting into the public eye if they think there’s more than an even chance that they can be caught on camera.

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