Mangalore: Those who live in Mangalore in their homes built close to open gutters all over the city, know what it is to tolerate foul smells and have mosquitoes biting them at night, if windows are not shut.

Open drains are a feature of the coastal city of historic times even in lanes, as in important areas and roads of this so-called magnificent city, with concrete or asphalted roads, and the dirty water could any time over flow from manholes onto the neat roads, to confuse and confound traffic and people walking on road sides.

In Mangalore city corporation limits, it is common to see drainage holes filled with dirty water over flowing on to roads, and making its evil flow fast on road corners every now and then.

But suppose such and overflow of dirty waters takes place near MCC on MG Road, as it happened on Friday noon what to say of corporators, engineers and the city commissioner?

At noon on Friday(April 13), near Ballalbagh on MG Road, a drainage hole was full and was making uneasy noises, but no one passing through bothered.

But when the angry dirty waters suddenly spilled out across, opening the lid, and made a kilo meter long waterway on the posh locality by spreading foul smell to the skies, everyone ran helter-skelter, as passing vehicles splashed the dirty waters on the laundered clothes of the passing citizens.

Quickly MCC officials woke up, and sent drainage workers to the spot, to arrest the dirty flows and clean up the areas to breathe fresh air again.