Sunday, June 17, 2007

Of Traffic Lights and (Delhi) Policemen...

On his way to office one morning, while my friend waited at a red light.. a car decided to give the red light a miss and even when the traffic inspector tried to stop it.. it didnt stop. Apparently the driver was in too much of a hurry and didn't notice the traffic policeman. Anyways.. this traffic inspector jumped on my friend's bike and asked him to give chase which he did.. and so ended up crossing a few red-lights himself.. They did manage to catch up with the car and its driver had to pay a heavy fine too.. after which the inspector turns to my friend and says "Beta, bike bahut tez chalate ho.. dheere chalaya karo aur dhyan se chalaya karo" (English translation: "Son, you drive your bike very fast, you should drive slowly and carefully.")

I am guessing my friend was lucky that he didn't himself get fined for jumping those red-lights while chasing the car... though apparently just that would have happened had he not refused to give chase by crossing that first red-light...

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