Rezgui was shot dead by police in a nearby side street, after a local builder dropped roof tiles on his head from above.
The Air Force dropped "roof knockers" — small, noisemaking shells — on top of some houses to warn the residents to escape before the next, real bomb fell on them.
Moreover, a private security contractor familiar with the operation said that directional explosives used in demolition jobs had likely been deployed to blast a square hole in the roof: "They decided that they were taking too many casualties and would drop the roof on them.
It does collect and drop from the roof in one or two places, but nothing in comparison with what is common in other ships, and if we lighted the stove it would disappear altogether".
Helicopters hovered over Mumbai, and commandos dropped onto roofs.
To cover up a leaky hole in their ceiling, lighting design & fabrication company, Famous Mods, has appropriated their Arduino circuitry into colored, light-up tiles in their drop ceiling— basically using their roofing to turn the room into a Bluetooth-enabled, interactive dance hall.
Another highlight is a house-shaped tzedakah box made of silver with a slot in the roof to drop in coins.
As I watched people leap from the buildings, I wished that offices stored parachutes, that window-washing equipment would drop down from the roof and that fire departments had portable elevators that attached to channels on the outside of buildings.
"Special operations is about doing what's not expected, and probably the least expected thing here was that a helicopter would come in, drop guys on the roof, and land in the yard," the special-operations officer said.
In Lennon's zany, entertaining novel, the megalomaniacal Happy Masters goes even further, strong-arming the town mayor and the beleaguered president of the local all-female college, buying up businesses and even hiring someone to drop bricks off the roof of the college library, injuring two students, to prove she needs to build another.
