I agree the firecracker pineapple was not intended to hurt any animal. It was intended to chase away the animal destroying the crowd.
Let's imagine this guy and editors of Manorama Daily shows up at our house and starts vandalizing. No one should chase them away. Just offer them a chocolate drink with little bit of poison. If they die from poison it shouldn't be our fault. We just wanted the vandalizing individuals to go away. We didn't want to harm them.
Not believable unless he provides names and addresses of those developed school. Their literacy rate must be high but their population views feels illiterate to me. Hopefully, they are teaching more Social Science and less Karl Marx in these schools.