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Drink or drive, don’t drop dead in the dawn of New Year
Bangalore: Dec 29, DHNS:
Spirits soar before the dawn of 2010. But should the spirits rise so high that daredevil drunken driving drops you dead in the New Year?
Adopting a tough stance, the City Police will watch the drink and stop your drive. But in celebratory mood, the men in khaki might just relax to smile and greet awhile. Party hard, but don’t kick up a rumpus on the road. This is the police line. But that’s just a line, and seldom do revellers mind as they race through the night in abandon. The morning after, the chilling truth emerges. Accidents soar, so do deaths.
To curb this annual trend, the traffic police want to come down hard on revellers, many of whom take the event as a licence to unrestrained indulgence. And so, expect the traffic and law and order policemen to be in full force in and around greater MG Road.
“The relaxation in the closing timings of hotels, restaurants and bars doesn’t mean that revellers can do whatever they like. They should conduct themselves in order. Their merriment and glee should not spoil others’ lives.” This warning by A Nagappa, ACP (Traffic Central), should send some message.
Watch out for these cops at all key junctions and crowded joints. “We are taking extra care so that the New Year doesn’t turn nightmarish for others. We’ll be quick and not hesitate to take action against those found exceeding the limits,” warned the official.
Learning “accident” lessons from the past, City hospitals, too, aren’t taking chances. Many have boosted their staff strength and asked doctors to be on 24-hour call. Others have requisitioned more ambulances.
The next 48 hours ought to be tough for the cops. Already on the back foot over rising crime in the City, the police wouldn’t want the New Year to begin with a bad bang. After all, the ongoing Crime Prevention Month will end on December 31 and any glitch would look extremely unpleasant.
ACP Nagappa’s advice to fun-mongers couldn’t have been more timely: “The public should take precautionary measures. They should not risk others’ lives. Groups celebrating the arrival of New Year with drinks should see to it that at least one of them, who drives, abstains from drinking.”
Who is this ACP duping? If our future chief minister Nikhil Gowda - yes the same guy who drives a porsche with out a number plate and at 3am demands food from hotels and fights with servers and cleaners and lays the blame on his friend who will SUDDENLY hide in Singapore - even mows over a few people, this SAME ACP will take Nikhil home safely to the old chief ministers both Kumaranna Gowda and Mannina thigane Deve Gowda
I totally agree wtih rama -- just recently a cop said they let off an actor after they found him driving drunk, because they did not want to book anyone important! [and get into trouble i suppose!]...so all this tough talk is only for the common man - from whom the police officers can fleece money if caught. Not for the higher ups and their brood of ill-behaved offspring....or idiot film actors.
Adopting a tough stance, the City Police will watch the drink and stop your drive. But in celebratory mood, the men in khaki might just relax to smile and greet awhile. 
