Goa Police station Visit!!!

At end of 5th semester exams , our gang decided to go to GOA. Well , this was one trip to remember especially for me. First time i had a sip of Vodka etc. Most important was that we visited Panaji Police station!



In Goa people usually get rent cars or bikes to travel around . I must say that this business is illegal .We rented 5 bikes all together and 2 of them in each .We were using illegal bikes!!. Police station incident happened on 3rd day. As usual , we will do everything unplanned. We went to Kolva beach 35Km from panaji city . nothing special about this beach , we were cursing ourselves why went all the way from panaji city to this banal beach. There was plenty of driving and we used to alternate driving turns , even bikes as well. I used to always lead the self-called race. Sachin Prabhu was a naive driver at that point of time , so he used to practice driving with all the bikes.



Around 6:00pm we reached a sunset view point called Dono Paulo. we parked our bikes in parking lot along with other bikes. Sunset point was time pass , we took some innovative pictures though.We also had a LIME SODA on the road side , importance will let you know later. While coming back , Sachin prabhu having confidence of driving , snatched a bike key from one of "Experienced" drivers and headed to get the bike and most unlikely thing happened after that. The key worked for another bike which was of same type (Splendor). ittefaq (coincidence)?? . Since we were constantly exchanging bikes , no one dared to check whether it was rite bike. We happily went to cruise there after not even realising that SAchin had created a blunder.Now we had a Duplicate Bike which no one realised.




Next day morning , as usual we started off to yet another beach! (GOA main aur kya hain ??:-)). Vijay , said that " this doesn't seem to be the bike that we had" , all of them shut his mouth and thought he was crazy. Actually the original bike had an headlight which was not designed for it. The bike that we had now had proper head light. We headed to Baga beach around 10:30 on the morning.Balaji vehicle ran out of Fuel on the way . So every one halted at one place. I took the the DUPLICATE bike and went to get the fuel.Even i did not notice that this was not the the original bike. When i drove back , our gang noticed that this was not the bike!. So for a moment every one was dumbfounded and really dint know what to do.

Problem here was that we dint know from where we picked up this bike. We had stopped some N places and each time exchanging bikes added to the confusion. After failing to find our original bike in couple of places we were almost tensed. I was particularly were apprehensive. I even yelled at Balaji when he carelessly said we will have a Soft drink and search!!!. Probably my friends haven't seen me before in that fashion.

So , finally we came back to that Dono Paulo. We straight away went to vendor of LIME SODA and asked him whether anyone complained about a missing Bike. Luckily the owner of the DUPLICATE bike we had given his contact number. So , we called him up and asked to come over . We thought its all over. Sadly that wasn't the case.

That owner of the bike has surrendered the bike to the Police station!. He said we have to go police and get the bike released.We being outsiders of GOA were worried to visit a police station. But we had to go!. So i volunteered along with Balaji also agreed. we thought we need to bribe them and took some 1000 bucks with us.So , we entered the police station and it was relief to have spotted out bike. there was an inspector ( i guess so ) who was writing some stuff. We told our story and asked him to release the bike. Well , no GOVT office will make your job simple!!. So , he made us to wait in front of him and he continued with some writing stuff. i think we waited for nearly an hour and he was writing as though we were not existent in front of him. Me and Bala , thought he is expecting something from us , but we were afraid to take the lead and ask him directly.

Finally he started to interrogate us and luckily that bike had all valid documents. So ,he let us go with the bike and it was moment of happiness. One surprising thing was , we dint even spend a penny for this. SO , after ruining nearly half a day we went to good restaurant and discussed the incident , what could have happen if we had really lost the bike and we are put behind the bars for theft!!
Well , those are just "COULD HAPPEN". We finally returned bikes to the owner to avoid further problems.

GOA trip was an eventful trip and it was first time i visited a police station for some problem we got entangled.

Chaotic Bangalore!

Denizens of bangalore often complain about of city traffic and infrastructure situation . Day by day we take longer time to reach home and set new lap records (off course in terms of slowness). When we find less traffic on road we are dumbfounded!! Well , who should be blamed for this? Govt? BMC? or citizens? i feel every one has there share of blame.

First in line are corrupt Politicians , who give pseudo promises and fail to do even an Iota of work. With IT boom happening , there is no question of shortage of wealth. So , what is problem? Lack of planning and foresightedness may be one of the reason. They just try to solve by providing short term solutions forget about it. Thus they will never address real problem at all. For example there was an underpass being constructed near my place , it just the shifted the Traffic jam to few metres further down the road!. They should make an extensive study to find real cause and brainstorm for solutions. Government has to outsource this work or at least have a Public-Private partner ship. Latter symbiosis will help citizens a lot.

Secondly , i feel even citizens are also responsible. First of All , people must use Mass transport. I agree that there is no proper transport , put have people tested this? If every person in city uses a 4 Wheeler as his mode of transport , then where is the space? bangalore is becoming densely populated , thus it is difficult to expand roads. one cant imagine the state when TATA rolls out its Rs 1 lakh car!. Car will be a common man's household and thus adding oil to already burning fire. Every citizen must try to minimise his private vehicle. This will reduce Pollution , saving petrol and most importantly you are reducing burden on roads. To overcome shortage of mass transport , private firms should rope in there own vehicles and make in MANDATORY for its employees. Traffic rules also must be followed , don't blame traffic policemen , probably they are the most busiest persons in bangalore today.

Government job is not just to develop Bangalore , they have entire state as a responsibility. They have to look into develop other cities , improve state of Agriculture which is backbone of the economy of country. Bangoloreans must not treat Govt as "Bangalore Developers". On the other hand , Govt must not take this as an excuse. More responsible citizens and Accountable government can save bangalore!