Traffic police personnel stationed in T Nagar at night to crack down on drunk driving continue to behave strangely.
A few weeks ago, they tried to catch drunk drivers by making them utter their names instead of asking them to blow either onto their faces or into a breathalyser.
The present trend is that police will stop you, look at your face for a few seconds and let you go if you are not drunk. Apparently, by just looking at your face, they now know if you are drunk or not, like some astrologers who claim they can read the face! You may wonder what methods they will adopt next. Well, they may ask you to show them your palms.
The lines on your palms may help them detect if you are drunk or not. A few weeks later, they may even deploy some parrots to pick a card, which will tell if you are drunk or not.
All this while they continue to wield the all-knowing breathalyser. So why are they not using them? Are they trying to save the battery charge of breathalysers? Or are they trying to be environmental champions by not making all drivers blow into plastic straws, which would ultimately be discarded on roads? Or, simply, are these breathalysers really working?