The Wonderful Life
It’s the New Year! That time of year when I am happiest!
So many parties… Which do I go to? I hope I find some imported alcohol. Good shit. Maybe there’ll be some good looking girls that I can hassle. I hope I get lucky and find a drunk rich kid. They are loaded with cash and willing to pay.
- The thoughts of a policeman in Tamil Nadu.
The movie Superbad shows two cops going nuts in the U.S. driving rashly on the road with no regard for traffic rules, busting parties and ‘confiscating’ alcohol. While it was funny in the movie and unlikely to really happen in the U.S. I thought about it and this is actually typical behaviour of the policemen here!
Category: City
January 1st, 2008 at 9:01 am
Police = Disorder and Anarchy in state
January 1st, 2008 at 10:03 am
Agree. Just posted about the police menace. Most problems in the city are caused by the police.
January 1st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Somehow I find it hard to believe that Anarchy and the police could go together.
January 1st, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Dude, police in the US do bust parties. They will pull you up if you made enough commotion partying.
January 1st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
They do Arun, but only if you make a lot of noise and disturb the neighbours. They do not get busted for crossing some arbitrary curfew, they don’t have alcohol stolen, people taken to the station (unless the case is extreme) and given advice and shit like that. What we have isn’t policing. It’s hypocritical moral policing.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 am
How you seen that video?
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 am
“Have”, not “how”, of course.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:20 am
Niyaz, what exactly do you mean?
Florchakh, I cannot hear the audio in that clip. What is it about?
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 am
Alright, try this one. It’s 10 minutes long and so RAW, but definitely worth watching!
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 am
Sad. I heard tasering has been a major problem this year.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
At least our police stop with advice, not drag you to court. Leave the moral policing, I’m talking about other petty incidents.
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Cops abroad write you fines for petty crimes and sometimes let you off with warnings too. They don’t give bullshit advice that’s based on what your parents will think about you and how much money they’ve spent on you.
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
For example, if you break your neighbour’s window. There, your neighbour will sue you and claim exorbitant money as compensation. Here, the police will mediate, if at all it went to the police, and would ask you to pay only for the window glass.
That bullshit advice given by almost everyone, not only by the police.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
What if you were than neighbour? Wouldn’t you want a lot of money?
Actually you’ll have to pay for the window and then the victim will have to pay for the honour of having the police visit his/her humble abode. It has happened.
Good point, everyone gives that advice, but with the cops you are forced to listen to them. You can’t ignore them, walk away or poke holes in their logic.
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Arun you forget that we also have to pay the police.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Ha ha, I guess it’s just adds up to the same thing.