Vir Das’s neighbour sneezes on him, threatens to assault him for flouting social distancing rules!

Coronavirus has driven people crazy like never before. It has also created an unprecedented scare among people. Everyone has literally started finding the other person in front of them toxic and infected. If someone has a personal problem, he/she even at times end up intentionally sneezing on the other which could surely lethal and inviting for the virus. One such incident was faced by the comedian and actor Vir Das.

Vir Das’s neighbour sneezed onto the actor-comedian for allegedly violating social distancing norms. Vir has negated the neighbour’s claims, and instead accused the man of threatening and harassing him. The actor-comedian, who also recorded the incident, issued a statement on the matter on his Twitter late Sunday night..

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https://twitter.com/thevirdas/status/1264612718247641088

In the video, posted by Vir, one can see an elderly man shouting relentlessly and threatening the Go Goa Gone star for allegedly breaking the social distancing rules. At one point, the man also appears to sneeze at Vir, even as the latter continues to request him to maintain social distancing of six feet.
Vir’s tweet read, “Lockdown Neighbour. I was giving my friend Kavi who lives three houses down from me some dinner. We were waiting for it to get cooked 15 feet away from each other. Me on my doorstep, him out. This happened”,

Detailing the incident, Vir wrote, “This is one crazy evening. I live on the ground floor. We’ve got a little sit out. At 10pm, a neighbour came by, because we had cooked dinner for them too. We do that with them and also some of the others within the complex. We gave him a chair fifteen feet away, FULLY socially distanced. My neighbour had a can of coke from his house, a mask on, which he had pulled down to have a smoke. I was on the outdoor sit-out area of my house, neighbour was in the complex, fully socially distanced. Five minutes later, this happens.”

He further went on to write, “This man is not my landlord, he lives on the first floor of the annexe building. He is upset because my landlord inherited the house I live in and he didn’t. This man does not own my doorstep, my sit-out, or my house. I’m not sure if an old man threatening to assault me, or sneezing on me, or asking his dead parent to haunt me qualifies as harassment. But this is a little ridiculous. And before this turns into him going to the media, as he has done before, and I’ve sat through it quietly…I’m not normally one for drama I’m sorry but this crossed the line. How’s your lockdown going?”

Celebrities including Kubbra Sait, Sayani Gupta, Shruti Seth reacted with shock and asked Vir to take care of himself.

Take a look at the replies Vir got on his video: