A few days ago, my car got towed away.
Date & Time: Saturday afternoon
Venue: Sarojini Nagar Market
Challan amount: Rs.300/
Break up- Rs. 200/- fine & Rs.100/- Crane charges
Reason: Unauthorised parking
Number of cars parked there: 20 (Yes I counted on my way back)
Number of cars towed: 1. Just 1. Mine
2 days later:
Date & Time: Sunday Evening
Venue: Major Jam next to the Moti Bagh Gurudwara on the Ring Road.
Reason: Endless rows of cars parked right along the main road, causing endless jam and hours of public inconvenience.
I am pretty sure no part of the Ring Road is an authorised parking.
Number of cars parked there: I lost count pretty quickly
Number of cars towed: ZERO ofcourse!
Real reason of my car towing: Common sense tells me, it had very little to do with parking (authorized or not) and even lesser with maintaining law and order. Almost nothing at all to do with public convenience. I think it had everything to do with completing the numbers in the books. My car just happened to be the first one in the row.
When will the authorities wake up to the shambles our everyday law and order system is in? We never tire of boasting of our military prowess. And yet from these every day display of the obvious omnipresent corruption to high profile cases like the Mumbai molestation case, EVERYTHING fails to make even the slightest impact. The maximum result achieved is the suspension of a few officers, just an excuse for shying away from considering the root causes; an extreme shortage of staff, abysmal emoluments, pathetic living conditions and considering these, impossibly high expectations of commitment and performance. I don't blame the officers. They're are getting exploited by the corrupt system, and their patience, endurance and hope, as a community, has disappeared. Hopefully the 6th pay commission would change things for them and consequently for us. Try being honest and commited sitting inside a tin cubicle on the road side without as much a table fan in the sweltering heat of 40 degrees, with only a walkie talkie to keep you company for 8 hours. Much easier said than done. Even easier to blame the police force for it all!
Oh and did I mention, that the place from where my car was towed, had no "No Parking" ir "Unauthorized Parking" signs. NONE!
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Well... Some people get caught, some (smart ones) don't.
ReplyDeleteSome smart tricks to save your car from getting towed:
(First things first: Never break the laws. Its illegal :) )
Anyways.
FACT: The crane service is outsourced by the police department. They get money on the number of car basis, so they try to pick as many as possible.. just one by one.
TIP: Try to park your car in the middle of the row ;)
FACT: The pick up cranes are designed to pick your car from the front side and to pick it up, the crane needs some bit of space in the front of your car.
TIP: Leave as little space towards the front as possible, making it impossible to get picked.
DISCLAIMER: THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT I AM PROMOTING PARKING IN UNAUTHORIZED PLACES.