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Happened to a colleague of mine. He was riding safely and well within the speed limit on his superbike when an auto in front of him turned without warning, resulting in a collision and some damage to both vehicles.
A mob of other auto wallahs gathered in 2 minutes and started threatening my colleague, using his superbike as proof of unsafe driving.
He ended up paying the auto guy in order to ensure a safe exit from the situation.

That’s mon mentality for you.

What do you do with these?



Has been a constant occurance ever since the flyover was opened (in Chennai).

I suppose they're trying to save the environment by avoiding the extra distance:-

One possible solution is to design the turn's (correct) exit like this:



Makes it difficult for such idiots to enter through the wrong side. Also, vehicles taking a U-turn can merge safely without the risk of bumping into a speeding car.

Giant bus openly driving on the wrong side of the busy Bangalore Mysore highway.
Where is the highway police? And why is isn’t this guy arrested and facing a potential life sentence?
God help us.

https://x.com/nagarajmnnagar4/status...7887271301496?

Response from Police - https://x.com/alokkumar6994/status/1827741736849866799

Yes. This needs to be done more often. I hope our beloved Kerala MVD also does the same to our busses, the spoilt brats on our roads.

But how was this person recording while driving? That feels quite dangerous too at such speeds.

Wrong Side Scooter Rider Gets Slapped By Army Man For Blocking Traffic..

Link

source - cartoq

Thanks

I wish they had impounded his scooter. His time is important but everyone else's is not? The same scooter guy gets into an accident due to his poor traffic manners - who is responsible?

Wrong side has seriously become a normal side now. People have literally forgotten what wrong side means. Specially two wheelers. It is so prominent at the Genpact right round about on Golf Course Road, Gurgaon. First people funnel their vehicle into a median right cut, wrong side. Then immediately take another left to continue wrong side again. Full blown idiots. And those battery Blinket scooters. Groan.

Check out the YouTube comments in reaction to the same video hosted by a channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pMx7EgfxI

The comments range from demanding a separate Karnataka country (echoes of TN's original brand of rabid separatism in there, alarmingly), to outrage over how the IAF personnel could hit someone. Weird, if you ask me. Not that many voices blaming the wrong-side rider. Is it just me or am I romanticizing a non-existent past when wrong-doers used to be afraid of the good-doers in the country?

This is the norm of the Internet nowadays, my post in another thread is a similar example. People love finding fault of every party other than the defaulting party. What they don't realize is that this habit leads to undermining the defaulting party's actions, shifting the focus of other readers to non-important issues of that incident. There are umpteen number of examples like this, recent one being this road-rage incident in Bengaluru - Link. Many people were quick to blame the driver for making a abrupt lane change causing the biker to crash into the car and subsequently get into that road rage mode. People behave like we are living in a ideal world hence we cannot afford to make any mistakes and go into full detective mode to dissect and find all possible mistakes of all parties in an incident such as this. Whatever was the fault of the car driver, road rage wasn't the solution and people need to focus on pressurizing the competent authorities to minimize the ever increasing road rage incidents rather than shifting focus of readers towards the (not-so-important) mistakes of the driver, indirectly justifying the actions of the two-wheeler.

Army Man Smacks Traffic Violator

https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/...078-2024-08-26

Excessive force or the need of the hour?

My 2 cents. In no way should the army have to take up the police's job and get into civic law and its implementation. Empirical evidence shows how that is most likely to end in disaster for the country (more so in the south east Asia region).
However, the lackadaisical attitude of the police does make for some sort of compelling argument for this to enforce traffic and overall discipline in the Indian populace. The BTP lady arrives at the scene as soon as the army man gets involved. Goes on to show that she was around but was probably busy elsewhere (hopefully doing something higher on the priority list).

Naming, shaming and some other forms of social embarrassment should be tried with these morons (maybe something along the lines of Get well soon roses from the movie Lage Raho Munnabhai :D). Fear of monetary loss, clearly, is not working.

Army Jawan Smacks Traffic Violator On Busy Bengaluru Road.

Internet Calls It "Satisfying"

Video in link:


https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/video-a...sfying-6427370

Right outside the Officers Training Academy in Chennai, I once witnessed a corrupt cop grabbing bribes from truckers. A soldier/officer (I couldn't tell) alighted from an army truck that had stopped alongside my car. The man in uniform walked across to the cop who was still oblivious to the approaching menace, confronted and slapped him and climbed back onto the truck.

Everyone who was stopped for traffic in the vicinity was happy. Most didn't even make an effort to hide their glee, as we all began moving again.

Why is it that we have to choose our masters, as citizens of a country? But leave that aside - the fact of the matter is that we do need to and we seem to feel happy when our cops get punished instantly - for not enforcing traffic rules and for being corrupt.

It is another story entirely as to why or how cops become blind to traffic offences and why they become corrupt...and there is enough in that story to make you want to hug a traffic cop (or any cop, for that matter, in India). They are broken men and women. If interested, on YouTube you can listen to ex-IPS Mr.K.Annamalai speak about the challenges faced by cops.

Anyhow, just sharing an unforgettable observation from all my years spent crawling along city roads