The 'boomerang' effect is most evident during hawker clearance drives undertaken in the city. Mumbaikars are familiar with the scenario. A haggling hawker keeps an eye out for the 'gaadi' or BMC truck doing its rounds'. Just as it comes into view, he piles his wares under a tree, or a designated spot and flees. After a few hours, he is back in business. Many times, hawkers find their wares carted away in the lorry only to go to the BMC office, pay a sum and retrieve them.

Now, fed up, the Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Council chairman, corporators, and officials themselves raided a skywalk, and freed it for citizens, a report in this paper explained.