The title may a bit off what I’m writing about but it’s just another topic to bash cops about their incorrect ways.

Recently a friend of mine was coming back home after work, the round about near Galadari you get a bunch of cops usually hanging around there. Now my friend he wasn’t talking on the phone, but well for some reason he was holding the phone while driving, but not to his ear.

Let’s just say it had fallen and he picked it up, and he was holding it in his hand till he could put it away.

Well the cop saw the phone in his hand and stopped him. My friend is not too fluent in Sinhalese but can understand. Well with reading Sinhalese, it’s more on the impossible scale.

Well the cop stopped him and said he was talking on the phone, when he clearly was not, he explained to the cop as best as he could, but the cop kept changing the word knowing he wasn’t too fluent. In the end knowing that my friend was a bit worried since it was his first ticket he said he’ll accept the ticket but he said to clearly state exactly how it was, that he was holding the phone but not using it, but as the cop said it was an offence even to hold the phone he accepted the charge.

We’ll guess what he got a friend to read the ticket and the dirty cop had put that he was talking on the phone, and nothing else. Yes my friend shouldn’t have accepted the ticket but when you are a bit timid and lost you can be easily pushed as you just want to move on and get on with your day.

These dirty cops pick on you if you are not in a fancy BMW, I’ve noticed this location where they are always on, I’ve seen enough of people who pass by using phones right in their face but they are cunning, I think they do a quick analysis of the person and what they drive and then stop.

Today on the way to work I had one of those Milo drink, and I was holding it in one hand while driving would this same cop stop me for having my Milo !!! ? I wonder, it was the same as my friend holding his phone, and not talking. What if the drink I was having was made to look like a phone, would the cop charge me fold holding a prink which looked like a phone and state I had a phone and was sucking on its antenna while talking ???? What if I was in my car, and singing to a song, would the cop stop me and say I was talking on the phone but he didn’t see it from a distance but he saw my mouth moving.

Well I’m bringing up all these, as I was stopped once, but I was stopped for the right reason as I was talking on the phone, so I was fine with paying the ticket. What I don’t like is some of these dumb cops taking advantage of people for the wrong reasons.

Anyway this is just my thought, and well next time you are stopped for not using your phone, do call anyone you can to help you sort it out, don’t let those jack asses push you around, again for the wrong reasons. If you are wrong then fine but if not, don’t wait silently.

I’m not a cop basher, I have a few friends who are police and they are very nice people, I even told them this story and said I wanted to write something about it, and they also agreed it should be done. The police are a large organisation and not all of them can be watched, so the few that are jack asses the stories to come, are for you.

Thank you and drive safe.

Mini