It happened last Sunday when I was on my way to Mall Ambassador. I’d already bought my busway ticket and was waiting for the bus to come when suddenly I noticed there’s a car in the busway line right in front of the busway stop in which I sit. At first I thought the traffic light made them stop then I realized it was the busway crossbar. I guess they intentionally put it there to ‘catch’ the naughty drivers and it actually did! Haha..
Assuming that it would be opened right away, the driver just stood still and waited. 5 minutes has passed, there’s no sign of the crossbar would be open, the driver got out and with the face that could actually shooed the tigers away, he demanded to the officer in a loud voice that the door be open and said sorry as the last attribute which I don’t think he meant it anyway. I didn’t actually hear what they’re saying but later on when I asked the officer, he said that he told the man to just move the car to the side line, to which he was supposed to take, because the procedure has it that the crossbar is forbidden to be open manually. The man still demanded, in even more fiercefull voice, that the door be open and out of nowhere he said that he was a police officer! Huh!! I thought this is just ironic, he should be ashamed to the fact that he was a police officer and he actually broke the rule and again asked to bend procedure..if I were him I would definitely hide my being a law enforcement officer!
To make the situation worst, there’s another car joining the law breaker parade. But this one remained anonymous inside the car, perhaps waiting for this ‘police officer’ to free them from this embarrassing moment. Then everybody seems to be waiting! This is what I called The ego vs The law. In another situation perhaps I would cheer for The Law, but I need to get to Ambassador before it’s getting dark, plus there’re already 3 busways tailing the two culprits. I have to butt in! Representing the victims, in this case all the innocent passengers-to-be, I asked for the officer’s understanding. There’s no way we could expect the police culprit to move aside as his ego was mountain high. Then the next thing I saw the crossbar moved and freed everything that got stuck behind it. I jumped to the first busway that came near. While the bus was strolling away, I saw that police officer couldn’t just let this away. Again, he confronted the officers in the busway stop and tried to show them his i-am-a-police-so-i-can-do-whatever-with-the-law power. Have you got no shame, Sir!