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ఆర్మీపై అభిమానాన్ని మరోసారి చాటుకున్న ధోనీ - dhoni ilitary model Jonga to his car collection
టీమిండియా మాజీ సారథి ధోనీ మరో వాహనాన్ని కొనుగోలు చేశాడు. భారత సైనికులు ఉపయోగించే 'నిసాన్‌ జోంగా' మోడల్‌ జీపును నడుపుతూ అభిమానుల కంటపడ్డాడు. ఈ ఫొటోలు సామాజిక మాధ్యమాల్లో చక్కర్లు కొడుతున్నాయి.
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Published : Oct 22, 2019, 1:42 PM IST
ఆర్మీ అంటే టీమిండియా సారథి ధోనీకి ఎంత ఇష్టమో చాలా సార్లు చూశాం. తాజాగా ఆర్మీపై ఉన్న అభిమానాన్ని మరోసారి చాటుకున్నాడీ క్రికెటర్. అయితే ఈ సారి కాస్త విభిన్నంగా భారత సైనికులు ఉపయోగించే 'నిసాన్‌ జోంగా' మోడల్‌ జీపును మహేంద్రుడు కొనుగోలు చేశాడు.
ప్రస్తుతం రాంచీ వీధుల్లో ఈ వాహనాన్ని నడుపుతూ ఆస్వాదించడంలో బిజీగా ఉన్నాడు ధోనీ. కొత్త జీపు నడుపుతూ తన ఇంటికి సమీపంలోని ఓ పెట్రోల్‌ బంకు వద్దకు వెళ్లాడు. విషయం తెలుసుకున్న వెంటనే అభిమానులు ఒక్కసారిగా ఆయన వద్దకు చేరుకుని ఫొటోలు దిగేందుకు పోటీపడ్డారు. వారిని మహీ నిరుత్సాహపరచకుండా సెల్ఫీలు దిగి ఆటోగ్రాఫ్‌లు ఇచ్చాడు.
ఇటీవల సెప్టెంబర్‌లోనూ ఆయన గ్రాండ్‌ చెరోకీ జీపును సొంతం చేసుకున్నాడు. ఆ జీపు ఇంటికి వచ్చిన సమయంలో ధోనీ సైనిక విధుల్లో ఉండటం వల్ల సతీమణి సాక్షి ట్విట్టర్‌లో పోస్ట్‌ చేయగా అప్పట్లో వైరల్‌గా మారింది.
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ఆర్మీ అంటే టీమిండియా సారథి ధోనీకి ఎంత ఇష్టమో చాలా సార్లు చూశాం. తాజాగా ఆర్మీపై ఉన్న అభిమానాన్ని మరోసారి చాటుకున్నాడీ క్రికెటర్. అయితే ఈ సారి కాస్త విభిన్నంగా భారత సైనికులు ఉపయోగించే 'నిసాన్‌ జోంగా' మోడల్‌ జీపును మహేంద్రుడు కొనుగోలు చేశాడు.
ప్రస్తుతం రాంచీ వీధుల్లో ఈ వాహనాన్ని నడుపుతూ ఆస్వాదించడంలో బిజీగా ఉన్నాడు ధోనీ. కొత్త జీపు నడుపుతూ తన ఇంటికి సమీపంలోని ఓ పెట్రోల్‌ బంకు వద్దకు వెళ్లాడు. విషయం తెలుసుకున్న వెంటనే అభిమానులు ఒక్కసారిగా ఆయన వద్దకు చేరుకుని ఫొటోలు దిగేందుకు పోటీపడ్డారు. వారిని మహీ నిరుత్సాహపరచకుండా సెల్ఫీలు దిగి ఆటోగ్రాఫ్‌లు ఇచ్చాడు.
ఇటీవల సెప్టెంబర్‌లోనూ ఆయన గ్రాండ్‌ చెరోకీ జీపును సొంతం చేసుకున్నాడు. ఆ జీపు ఇంటికి వచ్చిన సమయంలో ధోనీ సైనిక విధుల్లో ఉండటం వల్ల సతీమణి సాక్షి ట్విట్టర్‌లో పోస్ట్‌ చేయగా అప్పట్లో వైరల్‌గా మారింది.
ఇవీ చూడండి.. సౌతాఫ్రికాపై టీమిండియా అరుదైన రికార్డులు
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San Antonio de los Altos, Caracas - 8 October 2019
1. Car arriving at gas station
2. Close of gasoline pump counter
3. Gasoline station worker filling the car's tank with gasoline
4. Close of the same
5. Driver telling the gas station worker he has no cash to pay, UPSOUND (Spanish) "Pal, I don't have any cash, collect it from this" as he hands over a package of corn meal
6. Gas station worker receiving the package of corn meal as a tip for the gasoline, putting it away with other food he's received a tip
7. Top shot of gas station, traffic passing nearby
8. Close of PDVSA (Venezuela oil company) sign
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San Antonio de los Altos, Caracas - 21 October 2019
9. Car at gas station pump, gas station worker
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Villegas, home appliances technician:
"Soon they will start giving away the gasoline, don't you think? (Laughs) I paid with a cigarette."
10. Pan of gas station pumps with vehicles filling up on each side
11. Close of gas pump
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Orlando Godoy, gas station worker:
"Many people come and tell me, 'Look, I don't have cash to pay,' Well, well, it doesn't matter. Go ahead (fill the tank), there's no problem. It's not that you're going to become a millionaire or anything like that, that is not the idea, the idea is to help people because Venezuela is going through a situation that is too critical. Then, as we help people, people also and they are grateful, and give you a kilo of cornmeal, or a kilo of rice, or buy you coffee, or give you water or juice, etc. And for what the price of gasoline tanker truck in this country is, what it costs are just two bolivars only, 2.36 bolivars, really, I see that it's not fair. Things must have their real prices, so that the people can live as they should live."
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Caracas - 10 October 2019
13. Luis Vicente Leon, president of Caracas-based polling firm Datanalisis, working at his office
14. Leon working on his computer
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Vicente Leon, president of Caracas-based polling firm Datanalisis:
"They give anything to the gas station worker, it is really not even a barter, it is a gift, that is, you are giving the worker tips, much more than what you pay for gas, because a tip equivalent to the value of gasoline, it is absolutely nothing, that gas station worker cannot do anything with that. If you want to give him a tip, you have to give him something, or a piece of bread, or a snack, or whatever, that is worth infinitely more than the price of the gasoline, but in the end, it is a favor for that man who is there working for practically nothing."
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San Antonio de los Altos, Caracas - 8 October 2019
16. Wide of gas station worker Leowoldo Sanchez at pumps with vehicles on each side
17. Sanchez putting gas in vehicle
18. Pan left of Sanchez, walking to his motorcycle to show the groceries costumers have given him on this day as a tip for filling gasoline
19. Various of Sanchez showing a package of rice, and a bottle of cooking oil
20. Sanchez receiving a package of corn meal as a tip from a taxi driver and shaking hands of driver
21. Sanchez receiving a bottle with coffee, as a tip; driver embraces the worker
22. Close of food received as tip on top of gasoline pump
23. Sanchez filling the tank of car with gasoline
24. Close of man giving a cigarette to Sanchez as a tip
25. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Orlando Molina, customer:
"You have (goods for) an exchange, for example a cigarette, a lighter, I don't know, water, food, you can give it here and it is accepted without any cost or anything. It's no secret to anyone."
26. Various of cars and people at gas station
27. Tanker truck leaving the gas station
STORYLINE:
Motorists in socialist Venezuela have long enjoyed the world's cheapest gasoline, with fuel so heavily subsidized a full tank these days costs a tiny fraction of a US penny.
But the economy is in such shambles that drivers are now paying for fill-ups with a little food, a candy bar or just a cigarette.
Bartering at the pump has taken off as hyperinflation makes Venezuela's paper currency, the bolivar, hard to find and renders some denominations all but worthless, so that nobody will accept them.
Without cash in their wallets, drivers often hand gas station attendants a bag of rice, cooking oil or whatever is within reach.
"You can pay with a cigarette," said Orlando Molina, filling up his subcompact Ford Ka in Caracas. "Heck, it's no secret to anyone that it goes for nothing."
Gas is so dirt-cheap station attendants don't even know the price.
Emptyhanded drivers get waved through, paying nothing at all.
This barter system, while perhaps the envy of cash-strapped drivers outside the country, is just another symptom of bedlam in Venezuela.
The South American nation of roughly 30 million people is gripped by a deepening political and economic crisis.
People live with a nagging feeling anything from violent street protests to a massive power failure could throw their lives into chaos at any moment.
More than four million Venezuelans have fled the country in recent years, escaping low wages, broken hospitals, failing basic services and lack of security.
The International Monetary Fund says inflation is expected to hit a staggering 200,000% this year.
Venezuela dropped five zeros from its currency last year in a futile attempt to keep up with inflation.
Inflation quickly devoured the new denominations.
The smallest bill in circulation, 50 bolivars, is worth about quarter of a US penny.
City buses and even banks don't accept it, arguing it would take such a thick wad of bills to pay for even the most modest items it wouldn't even be worth the trouble.
The largest bill, 50,000 bolivars, equals $2.50.
Venezuela, which sits atop the world's largest oil reserves, was once rich.
But the economy has fallen into ruin because of what critics say has been two decades of corruption and mismanagement under socialist rule.
President Nicolás Maduro's hold on power is under challenge from opposition politician Juan Guaidó, who has the backing of the United States and more than 50 other countries that claim Maduro's re-election in 2018 was crooked.
Gasoline prices are a deadly serious matter in Venezuela.
Roughly 300 people died in 1989 in riots that erupted after the country's president at the time ordered a rise in fuel prices.
Amid the economic crash, Maduro has not substantially raised gas prices, a strategy that was probably reinforced after violent protests recently forced the president of Ecuador to back off plans to end fuel subsidies there.
Maduro has acknowledged the state-run oil company, PDVSA, loses billions of dollars a year because of the discrepancy between the price of gasoline and the costs of production.
At the most, a tank of Venezuelan gasoline has historically cost the equivalent of a few US pennies.
Because of inflation and devaluation of the currency, that has plunged even further.
Gasoline in Venezuela's capital of Caracas, the seat of power and largest population center, has so far been immune from the shortages and mile-long lines that plague other parts of the country and can leave drivers waiting for days to reach the pump.
Officials blame the shortages on US sanctions against PDVSA.
Service station attendant Orlando Godoy stacked the food and drinks he received from drivers on top of the pumps – a bag of cooking flour, cooking oil, a bottle of mango juice.
He earns minimum wage, which amounts to a few dollars a month, so the food helps support his family.
"A lot of people show up saying they don't have cash to pay," he said. "The idea is to help people because Venezuelans are going through a rough situation."
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