With the odd-even scheme gradually gaining steam, the Delhiites are coming up with different innovative excuses in order to skip fines. A date, which was labelled by many as a “biggest test day” for the Delhi’s road space reservation scheme, was full of laughter for many traffic officials. Here are some of the funnier ones.
“Sir, I don’t know if it would make a difference to you, but we just got married. We were on the way to visit a temple which was prescribed by the priest before we could go to the honeymoon,” said a couple when they were stopped by the traffic police, violating odd-even rule. An elderly gentleman driving a car wearing an odd number plate on a day scheduled for the even numbered car was pulled over by a traffic police. The officer exclaimed: “Sir, do you realise you’re driving a car with an odd number plate? To which the elderly gentleman replied: “I sure do sir, and I’m only following the rule as my son who is an army officer, had told me to put defense sticker before wheeling the car on the road but I forgot.” However, there was no such exemption expanded to the family of an army official and the gentlemen got fined by the police.
The funniest excuse, according to Inspector Dayal Singh, was given by an offender who was caught under the Tilak Nagar flyover check point. “His excuse was, I am going to the hospital because my wife is pregnant. I asked where his wife was to which he answered that she was in a hospital and he was going to visit her. I handed him a challan slip of Rs 2000, suggesting that he could have taken an auto.