A month ago, I bought an engine for a car I’m planning to recondition. When I was bringing it home, a friend of mine was in the Suzuki in which the engine was loaded while I lead the way in my car. All of a sudden my friend called me and told me that a patrolling police mobile had stopped the Suzuki and they were asking for the purchase receipt. So I immediately made my way to the place where they were stopped by the police. What followed was a series of interesting questions. When I showed them the receipt, they asked me what I did, what was the engine for, where I bought it from, how much I paid for it and when exactly was it bought by me.
The purpose of the last question was to entangle me. I was expecting it. So I told him straight away that the receipt was 25 days old, I had paid some amount in advance, and on paying the balance that day, I had been given possession of the engine.
Ok so then he was like you people don’t know that these engines are smuggled from Afghanistan and are taken out of stolen cars and this and that.
By nature I’m a little pathan dimagh. So I ended up saying on this comment of his that when you people know every thing, why don’t you stop them from doing such a thing and making a fool out of the public.
He was sort of taken aback. He asked me for my ID card and took down all my details and stuff so that he can contact me if in case he finds out that the engine I bought was from a stolen vehicle.
So apparently it was for this reason that he took down the engine no. To be honest, the engine no he wrote wasn’t a genuine one. It was a fake random no.
Then came the main purpose of our interaction. The reason because of which he had bothered to take so much pain and trouble. HIS SHARE.
He goes like… so since you bought an engine for your car, we should also get some MITHAI…
First he wastes so much of my time. Then he asks for bribe, as his share of my happiness! What the hell.
I told him straight away. Had you guys not wasted my time (and had come to the point straight away…) I might have considered sharing my happiness with you. As of now, I can’t help you.
The authorities should definitely do something about such infuriating attitudes of our public servants. They spend their precious time and energy harassing the public when on the contrary they should be concerned about the latter’s peace.
