Lockdown: Mumbai police's 'safety tunes' top Twitter charts
May 7, 2020, 15:36 IST
Mumbai, May 7 () After heart-warming videos andmessages, the Mumbai police on Thursday posted memes ofpopular rock bands, termed as 'safety tunes', urging citizensto stay indoors during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The city police, in the past, have adopted unique waysto appeal to citizens to follow the lockdown, which has beenin place since March.
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"Stay indoors, for we are on the streets, playing yourfavourite safety tunes with our Band-o-bast," the tweetposted on @MumbaiPolice reads, with memes of popular rockbands such as U2, Backstreet Boys, Oasis and Linkin Park.
Using names of these bands cleverly, the policeadvised citizens to "U2" stay home, not loiter in "backstreetboys", home is an "oasis" and don't visit "Linkin park".
The post garnered praise from Twitteraties, whoappreciated the police for their taste in music.
The city police's Twitter handle recently crossed thefive million followers mark. DCARU ARU(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)