It looks like the "with you for you always" are on a fresh drive to catch us poor unsuspecting (
) motorists and lighten our pockets! They got me this morning at a time & place I
least expected them - 7.45 am coming off the AIIMS flyover, in front of the bus stop at South Ex.
There were about 8 or 10 of them gleefully pouncing on all & sundry and I saw & heard the activity too late to take evasive action (for those who know the area well, I came around the curve on to the main road and it was too late!!!). 3 of them were dancing in front of the truck making it impossible for me to duck around them lol! So I rolled down my window after pulling up and politely asked what the issue was - I was smilingly asked to produce my licence so I innocently asked why. The answer was a smiling "aap 67 speed pe chala rahe the, sirf 50 tak allowed hai".
So I equally smilingly told him that the truck doesn't even hit 60 but that didn't cut any ice with him. I told him that I wouldn't part with my licence, I was in a hurry, so could they please note down my number & let me go? The answer was, "No", 3 options, licence, fine (900 bucks) or the car gets towed.
In the meantime, one of them was getting aggressive (because I was inching the vehicle forward
) and he started raising his voice. So that pissed me off & I decided that I WASN'T going to grease their palms even if it meant money (as in the fine) DOWN THE DRAIN. So I shut the engine, got out and told the guy to speak politely, take the fine & wrap it up quickly. Of course that motivated him to try & create more issues - "yeh to photocopy hai, original rc kahan, original chahiye" etc etc. Anyway, since I was paying the fine, there was not much he could do so I paid the fine (jeez, 900 bucks for doing 67 kmph - as I was telling tsk,
THAT HURT, I think I would have been happy if it was 120 that I was caught doing but 67!!! lol, lol) and then spent about 45 seconds telling them how utterly useless they were when it came to handling stuff that they were actually paid for........how they were TOTALLY ineffective when it came to controlling riots & arson (like the Gujjar situation yesterday) or controlling the killer call center cabs and when it came to cowardly tasks like hiding behind trees and catching motorists doing 67 kmph they were the tigers........and so on!
Anyway, they were getting even more pissed with me & I also didn't want to spoil my morning any further so with a final diesel FAAARRRT, I moved off towards my Office, 900 bucks lighter. I did see a couple of more points where they were prowling between South Ex & Okhla so just wanted to tell you guys to watch out over the next couple of days - they seem to have woken up again.
But 67 kmph - MY BLASTED LUCK!!!!