Our Royal Police Force

Saw this post from a famous Mandarin Blog and it reminds me of what happened 2 months ago.

On a Sunday afternoon during early November (which was 2 months ago obviously), the 3 of us went to Taman Budaya for a percussion concert. After the concert I had to go to Pudu Plaza to order my Tamron lens which costed me around RM100 for prebooking it. And here is a fun fact for you, after paying that RM100 prebooking deposit, my wallet had only RM1 left. Nothing else. =.=

After that while we were on our way back to Cyberjaya through KL-Seremban Highway, I wasn't so sure about certain junctions so ended up I was forced to make an illegal lane switching in order to avoid the Smart Tunnel Highway. It was then I saw 2 policemen standing by the roadside signalling me to pull my car over. I wouldn't complain much about it because a mistake is a mistake but it was just a minor lane switching (and that's all I'm gonna say. =.=).But this was roughly how our conversation went through :-

(parked my car aside and walked towards their police car)
Him : Hey,tadi sana double-line tahu?
Me : Oh yea yea, tadi masuk lane salah tak nampak....
Him : So sekarang nak macam mana? Nak saman ke?
Me : erhm.....yea...Saman lar...(still couldn't believe I said this at that time)
Him : Awak betul-betul nak saman ke? RM300 tahu?
Me : yea, nak Saman, kerana sekarang aku tak ada duit. (flipped open my empty wallet and I think he noticed it indirectly)
Him : Nah...aku sekarang bukan nak minta duit...Cuma tadi double line itu tak betul...awak hanya perlu minta maaf cukup lar...
Me : Oh....Sorry bang...Sorry bang....memang tak sengaja...
Him : Awak masih student kan??
Me : yea yea...masih student sahaja...
Him : Okay Okay....awak baliklah, lain kali jangan macam ini lagi...
Me : Okay bang...Sorry bang...Terima Kasih yea.....

So back at the car, my friends asked me how much he asked for and they thought I was going to get some money from them to pay him (because they too knew that I had only RM1 at that time). After I told them the entire scenario, they were too shocked (and funny at the same time) to find out that I was let go so easily. And as we passed by the policeman, I saw another car was pulled over by his colleague for committing the same mistake as I did. Not so lucky anymore for the driver I guess??

and that's was how the story of "A Sorry worth RM300" came from.

The main point of this post wasn't to show off how lucky or how funny I was at that time. It is to point out the bribery problems (with the simpliest example) in our country, especially in the governing department. The police force is meant to help the public and with that they should be friendly and well-accepted by the public. But somehow when things get out of control and the public is afraid (or rather fed up) to seek for police's help and instead sort out their problems by themselves, it means something is going wrong with our judiciary system and it is going to cost our nation a lot in long term. Check out this post to see what I am trying to mean.

Although they didn't ask for bribery directly (who would right?) but they did mention its keyword (which is the phrase "macam mana nak settle sekarang"). Furthermore I don't think they will standby at the roadside wearing their heavy uniform just to pull cars over and wanting a simple apology right? Thanks again for giving me a chance that day Mr. Policeman, but not the same case over here from me, and you have to own a big gratitude to your other colleagues all over the nation for this.

That's not all about the great performance from our Royal Police Force and I shall post up another story about "the illegal U-turn at Zuok" some other day, provided if I have the time to do so. =P