And B'lore police goes berserk again!
For the lack of a better thing to do, my most-revered Bangalore Police Officers have started hounding Cafes in the city, harassing coffee-lovers. After a long day in office, I and my colleague decided to hit a cafe and Mocha being the closest option with less crowd, we zeroed in on it - BIG MISTAKE!
Who knew they would come in with a big-ass video camera and an annoying light to make you feel like you killed someone. So there we were, drinking CHOCOLATE SHAKES, not even sitting side-by-side, wearing the 'decentest' attire in Bangalore - in focus of some lunatic camera guy from God knows which channel. That's when I realized - we were the only "COUPLE" there (and how is that related to hookah, man?) and I thought – SHIT!
Some time in near future, I expect to see my video live on some channel with some fancy, shocking caption. Then, I wonder if I will be as relaxed as I am now, or if I will have an answer. The scene is playing again and again and I wish I would have had the courage to just go and tell that idiot camera-person that he was an ANNOYING SCUM and to get the bloody camera off my face. I feel sad for my colleague who was in Mocha for the first time AND OUTRAGED at the camera guy. If he was a journalist, he was way beyond his journalistic ethics!

We had barely settled with chocolate shakes when the waiter came and said, "Sir, the Police is here with a camera. Please don't bother, they will check for evidences of hookah and leave." I said ok, thinking it's not a problem as THERE WAS NO HOOKAH.
Of course, for them it doesn't matter if your are 2 or 22, you are friends or couple, you are in a cafe or in a pub....You are just THERE, your existence there becomes a crime, and you become the next scapegoat of some loser-of-a-police operation. And they wonder why people don't trust the Police. Thoda toh sharm karo Mamu!

After I reached back, I called a friend who knows much about laws and Police and she gave me some gyan. So in all, I LEARNT THIS:
- Mocha lost two very good customers.
- More than the society, it's the Police who needs classes on "Stop Stereotyping".
- You can walk away without being questioned as you are a customer.
- You can protest and ask them to videotape the staff in stead of you.
- You can AND SHOULD take pictures of those buggers and post it on social media.
- You can ask which channel they are taking the video for.
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