After Getting Fined, Bengaluru Man Exchanges Business Card With Traffic Marshal; Here's What Happened

There are an endless number of interesting Peak Bengaluru moments on the internet. While some of them will leave you in splits, some stories will simply make you feel amazed. One such story recently surfaced on the internet, where a user shared how his encounter with a traffic marshal ended in a professional exchange of ideas. Startup founder Ashish Bansal recently took to the microblogging platform and shared an incident from 2012 that he describes as his personal Peak Bengaluru moment.

Man fined at traffic checkpoint ends up exchanging business card

In his post, Ashish recalled a time when he and two of his friends from Australia went on a long late-night drive. Mentioning that one among them did not indulge in booze, Bansal wrote, “Out of the four of us, one person was the designated driver and did not indulge in booze, as we knew that a checkpoint at Domlur would obviously be in place by the cops.”

As anticipated, their car was stopped at a checkpoint. While everything, including the car’s documents, was in order, their Pollution Under Control certificate expired, and they were slapped with a fine of Rs 500. “We were cashless way before it became a norm, but for all the wrong reasons. This was also the time when civilian volunteers had begun to enrol as traffic marshals,” he continued.

The post further shared how Bansal was left as a surety with the cops while his friends went out to find an ATM to withdraw the fine amount. However, upon their return, they witnessed something that “they could not believe.”

“I was exchanging business cards with one of the traffic marshals. This volunteer ran an advertising agency and I had just gotten into advertising 2 years back. There was a long chat about how things were, and it ended in this exchange of business cards. It helped that there was very less traffic on that Saturday night at Domlur at 11 PM – can’t imagine that now,” Bansal wrote.

Along the lines of this interesting moment that Bansal experienced around a decade back, he said, “It was a beautiful city then, and it still is. The people of this city make it so.”

In the meantime, social media users also took to the comment section and shared their reactions. A user also asked whether they paid the fine or were let off. To this, Bansal wrote, “We did pay and even got a receipt.”