India has implemented the 21-lockdown across the country to tackle the spread of the deadly Coronavirus, but many peoples from the different regions have been violating the lockdown, resulting in the country is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases since the last week.
Well, Kerala has come out with a unique way to stop people from violating the COVID-19 lockdown, as the Kerala Police is using drone surveillance to monitor lockdown violators in the state and the most interesting thing of this campaign that it was inspired by Ravi Shastri's Tracer Bullet Challenge.
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The term “tracer bullet” was made popular by the current Team India coach Shastri who used it a lot during his days as a cricket commentator and even it became a viral online challenge in 2016 as other commentators and cricketers tried saying the words with the same panache as former India captain.
On Wednesday, April 7, the official Twitter handle of the Kerala Police has shared an amusing and entertaining video from its recent drone surveillance efforts to keep people indoors while using the famous commentary of India head coach.
In the video, the background audio is a compilation from Tracer Bullet Challenge while Kerala Police used some of those audios to hilariously show how people violating the lockdown and run away upon spotting the drone, as the aerial footage shows some try to cover their faces, others scatter into bylanes, and one man even tries to outrun the drone and vault over a wall.
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Shastri can be also heard asking fellow-commentators Sunil Gavaskar, Sanjay Manjarekar and Ian Botham to copy his "tracer bullet" commentary in the background of the video.
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Noteworthy, the video is getting a lot of likes and comments on Twitter and even Shastri has also commented on it, saying it is absolutely amazing.