Stick it up! Cops must bust frauds breaking rules

Some people like stickers and flags. A lot. They put them on their mo torcycles and their cars. Nothing wrong with that. But one may take exception, on grounds of unwarranted display of stupidity in public, to stickers that say things like “Dad's Gift“.
Your father paid for your vehicle? That doesn't say much for you. Why would anybody want to advertise that he cannot afford to buy a vehicle himself despite being of legal age to have a driver's licence AND the fact that he's a nincompoop to let it be known wherever he goes? But it's willful traffic offenders who prepare to break the rules, with ingenuity such as one can only marvel at, to avoid being busted who really get the goat of lawabiding motorists and policemen.
Like this 25-year-old man who ran a red light at a traffic signal at Luz Corner on a motorbike with a lawyer's white, twin-band symbol in a sticker on the rear and another in the front that in bold letters proclaimed “PRESS“.

Motorists who noticed either smiled at his gall or frowned at his nerve but the biker held his head high with pride -till traffic policemen flagged him down. What, they asked him, was his profession. Journalism or law? Turned out he was neither a journo nor a lawyer but owned a printing press.
Police recently arrested two motorcycle thieves who used `police' stickers to dodge the cops for six months. “They said they passed vehicle checks easily because policemen believed they were cops,“ a senior police officer said.
The professions of choice for both frauds and straight-up offenders -whose pride in their occupation extends to the belief that it grants them immunity from the law -apart from `Press' include `Govt', `Army, `PWD' or `TNEB' (apparently being in government service gives one special status) and `Corporation' (police ought to book the species that uses this last one even if they don't break any rule). Then, of course, there are those who put up flags of political parties or stickers with their colours.
“I've seen water tankers with `Press' stickers,“ the officer said. “The problem is that there's no rule against pasting such stickers.“
But road and traffic experts say police can book such frauds for impersonation.
Institute of Road Traffic Education president Rohit Baluja says people who flaunt such stickers think they are a symbol of pride. “Police should crack down on them,“ he said.