common..i mind shelling out 100 bucks..could get 5 nail polishes from it.:P..lol...(pari would definitely agree..:P)
We were not talking about children in this post, who are yet to reach an age when they can drive a car legally :D
usne agar 1000 rupay maang liye hote to the blog would have been on how impolite and compassion-less the cops of today are ..
uske maangne se kya hota hai. For thousand rupees, I would have checked with people if that is the correct penalty amount, and verified the challan before paying up. And then the post would have been about how much that hurt me, and how careful I will be with traffic regulations going forward. That is exactly my point, for 100 rupees, I might just continue taking calls at the risk of getting fined once every week. The only reason that I would follow rules is that I realise that a violation might actually cost me much more than money, that 100 rupees is not a deterrant for sure.
yup. totally agree. the fines should be very high for people to bother listening. but yes, that also leads to cops earning ore bribe rather than people learning their lesson.
In Bombay the fines are pretty stiff. no setabelt its close to over 1k. drunk driving 5k and 1 night in jail. that should be like goddamn minimum!
The traffic fines most definitely should be increased to much higher levels. It will probably increase corruption but there can be measures taken to minimize that. Like giving all cops 10-20% of the fines they collect tax free. So if fines are increased to 1000-5000 type levels, you might need to shell out more than 100/200 to 500/1000 amounts(of bribe) for the cop to show any interest. That would be a deterrent I would say (against breaking the rules ofcourse).
Mama - Mia: To be honest, I felt a little sad for the cop too. I mean, with the fine amount so low, he would have felt insulted when I almost threw the money at his face without the slightest regret. I immediately felt remorse, and said Sorry Sir! Though he did not deserve too much since he was expecting to be bribed, but still.. And the fines are not uniform through the country?? I thought it is the same everywhere.
Anant : If you are the same person I fought with last night, I can't believe you commented. After almost 2.5 yrs of blogging, I finally managed to write something that could make you comment :D
We are one terribly busy couple, you see.. especially on weekends :D Did you see his blog, the last 3 posts are on climbing, climbing and more climbing!
waise in hindsight .. is is good that the policeman did not charge you for driving while being under-age .. u know..like that census person :P:P
I used to think the same way, but my brother enlightened me by opening me up to another point of view.
But, yet so many people do it. And very few of them get actually caught. And, if you are amongst the students, you might even prefer paying Rs. 50 to the cop, rather than getting Rs. 100 receipt which we can proudly keep.
If we keep the fine to say Rs 1000, if you are suggesting, most of the people would happily pay cop Rs 100-200. That way the real offence wouldn't get registered anywhere. Its not just about a single case of talking while driving incident or about number of such cases that get registered.
Think about someone, who is a repeated offender and keeps getting away by paying Rs 100-200. That guy, wouldn't have no case/fine/offence registered under his DL. If such a guy continues in such a vein and makes a bigger crash, he would be let of easily, because there was no fine/case/offence registered under his DL.
Under current system atleast, any such offenses such as crossing red light etc. get registered under your DL, once true driving record can be tracked. It also prevents corruption as it prevents cop from taking Rs 100-200 from each offender and let him go.
Regarding the deterrence potential of Rs 1000 fine vs Rs 100 fine (based on gross assumption that our cops are perfectly honest gentlemen), I don't think it makes any difference. Higher fine, might be deterrent in the beginning but in the end, we might just get used to higher fine way of life, just like we have got used in other walks of life in Bangalore.
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