u/HumbleMolasses1

I am not going to blur the image of the rogue or name of their property.

This happened on 4th cross road, adjacent to Kanakapura Road at Raghuvanahalli. I was out with my father in the evening. The shop we were heading to had no parking of theirs, and the main road already had vehicles parked. As I didn’t want to contribute to the parking chaos (there was a No Parking board there), I drove in to the 4th Cross where there were empty spots. As we were about to exit the vehicle after parking at an empty place, out comes rushing this man pointing his finger straight towards us and behaving as if he’s some kind of landlord of the entire locality. There are two PGs there opposite to each other and some shop. The shop had its shutters down.

I politely asked him, what’s his concern if I park the vehicle there, and that it wouldn’t take more than 10 minutes for me to return. And he goes ballistic. He claimed, the space till the surface of the road is his area. That, anything outside his “compound walls” is his place. I try to reason with him stating that can’t be true as he’s claiming public space to be his.

The entire time I was talking with him in Kannada. He kept on raising his voice. Few heads start popping up. A couple of guys come out of one of the PGs. I start recording the saga. My father panics; he’s 70+. I decide not to continue it any longer for his health reasons and ask him to get inside the car. Seeing me getting ready to move, he comes next to the window and asks me to “talk to his lawyer on his phone”. I just laugh and shrug him off. I also told him that this is going on social media.

It is despicable seeing the level of impunity with which these rogues behave. This isn't just a one-off incident and same pattern happens everywhere in the city and outskirts. There are certain pockets where people tie empty bottles to strings and hang between trees and poles, and demarcate the areas outside their residence and commercial spaces. And the city’s civic authorities don’t fine them.

We hear that there’s an upcoming bill vide which parking at office buildings will attract a fee. And then there are these self-entitled baboons who are ready to jump on you because they have largely remained untouched irrespective of their encroachments and daily breaking of other civic laws.

While driving out, my father, visibly shocked, asks me how I stay here and drive around! Sometimes, I ask myself the same questions.

Some trivia:

Broad gauge passenger traffic, co-co diesel electric locomotive equipped with 16 cylinder 4500hp engine with IGBT based traction control system.

This is a dual cab locomotive i.e. it has driving cabs at both ends. Both the cabs have full width control consoles, each console having two TFT displays. Each cab is provided with a 'Button Lever' (BL) key for operating the locomotive. The first WDP4D loco was manufactured in Oct'10.

This happened twice in a short span of time; placed order with Amazon Now (regular detergents and groceries) which got delivered with a random item missing.

Unlike other platforms, Amazon completes the order marking all items as delivered by default, until you notice and explicitly raise with their customer care.

As often we are busy with other domestic chores, it doesn’t come to mind to verify the delivered products, and if you are late, their automated CS engine will make it triply difficult to even raise a complaint.

The delivery folks, if you contact them raising the issue, they will promptly wash off their hands by claiming that they are just delivering the order.

These items aren’t delivered in a sealed bag. The customer doesn’t get to know whether the item(s) going missing is due to a gaffe in the black stores or something happens during transit to the customer’s address.

Anyhow, I felt like posting this issue here for other users to be vigilant. Money doesn’t come freely to us. And scams are the new normal in this country.