Comments on: Some police!

By: nandhu

nandhu — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:57:20 +0000

this post was meant for lighthearted reading. i agree what i did was wrong.

By: lilram

lilram — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:28:17 +0000

This is truly very, very disappointing. To have a person who we think is responsible violating the law and then writing about it in this manner is very distressing.

I must respond by quoting an incident in Chennai involving me and the police again. This was once when I absent-mindedly jumped the red light at the Anna flyover and was pulled aside by the cop. It was not really as if the traffic was fierce or that anyone was affected in any way as a result of this, but it was a violation all the same.

The cop asked me politely why did I jump lights and I admitted my error apologizing that I was pre-occupied with something and shouldn’t have been so. I also volunteered to accept the penalty. The cop took out his challan book and wrote out a Rs. 100/- fine remarking that he was happy to meet someone who owned up so readily to a mistake. I paid him and thanked him for doing his job well. We both went our ways smiling and feeling we had behaved properly.

I see no reason at all to violate a law that is for the good of all concerned. I also see no reason to argue when in the wrong. I too make mistakes although I try not to do so deliberately. Admitting to a mistake immediately and correcting yourself in future is the minimum I would expect of a responsible citizen. The cop that day in the incident above, felt genuinely good; I too came away felling good at having been honest even if a trifle careless.

Maybe my case is unique, still based on anecdotal evidence I believe that there are cops who do a good job. Maybe it is not my place to advice anyone but I would appeal to Nandhu to consider the alternative I have proposed.

By: satishssiyer

satishssiyer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:03:51 +0000

Press..Ruling party associate…police men’s family…defence personnel…celibrity…MTC bus drivers…Auto’s with ruling party Flags n banners….Advocates…. and this LIST goes on..

You are not the only one buddy :-)

By: rashu235

rashu235 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:48:50 +0000

Is it that we Indians are not brought up right to respect the law or is it that we have sheer disregard for human life…which of course which while is in abundance lets not forget each and everyone of us could be special and most important to someone.
Talking about usage of cell phones while driving… yes, I think we need to do something to help the police when we see such offenders…
The law should be strict and perhaps instead of fines an offender should be made to do few hrs of community service like sweeping roads or some such like they have in the west…might just help…

By: Chez Moi » Why are we like this wonly?

Chez Moi » Why are we like this wonly? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:55:57 +0000

[...] forward to this morning, when I came across this article on Chennai Metblogs. I mean, what do you say to this respectable member of the press, who uses his [...]

By: neoflys

neoflys — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:47:12 +0000

<"dark and fat"> with all due respect you sound to me like a racist minority? you must be doing well in tamil newspapers, why are you here?

those cops addressed you "sir" but still you feel they were rude, other than cops to whom all you spoke on the chennai roads? ever been to a vegetable market? spoken to a autorikshaw driver? bus conductor? beggars? everyone’s rude when you show your attitude. Right that the cops did not do their duty by not fining you but they did warned you before letting you go. Maybe they thought you are going to write something good for the people.

By: neoflys

neoflys — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:28:39 +0000

why you have to say you are from press? hoping that they will let you off if you say you work for press???
you were on phone for 15 minutes while driving? shame on you. why is that people like you represent this blog. Its somewhat understandable if someone talk on phone for a minute while driving, but 15 minutes is pure disrespect of system
Cop knows what people like you will write if they fine you.
cops are rude but they get arrogant and more rude when people try to show off their power…the bloody press power! I thought blogs are not polluted by the press, but quit not

By: whiterussian

whiterussian — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:56:02 +0000

"I was the press, after all."

"I was wondering why the cops never fined journalists".

That says it all.

By: dilip

dilip — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:12:52 +0000

Good you’re press, bad they’re cops. Ugly->This system of LETTING GO of people just because they have money/power/influence.

I mean, what prevents you from writing "Police Brutality against INNOCENT PRESS" in tomorrows newspaper in third page. I mean, its not practical for you to do it but then still possible, isn’t it?