Understand that the post was written on frustration when the rich people or the so-called celebrities commit such shameful acts and escape out easily.
Please go through the dailies for the stats you asked about. Special instructions from the Chennai police was to close down the clubs at a speculated time to prevent rash and drunken driving and any other mishaps. Prevention is better than cure.
In no way, I am jealous of kids swiping cards and I am just afraid about the age they are introduced to these things. It will not help them build a healthy attitude.
I am not saying that all people who party hard or go to clubs are punks. I am targeting the group of people who behave the other way after they get into high spirits and cause problems to others and escape from the law.
Hope you understand if you go through my post again with the substantiating comments it received.

First try to see people as people, not as rich or poor. Guilty should be punished no matter their rich or poor. I hope you agree with the fact that over 80% of the crime committed in India are by done by people who are not rich. I see you don’t seem to understand the fact that we in India have weaker laws that help criminals (both rich & poor!Er!!!) can make use of, to get themselves out. Again, it is our justice system at which you should be yelling at.

Do you realize something, you are spending at least 300-600% more than what your father or grandfather was spending. So, it is quite common you see a little fellow using a card in some mall… Don’t envy him swipe the card for a bulky amount, it’s enough grown-ups make sure he is getting the stuff for his age.

“Curfew for bikes and cars to run after 10.00 PM” – You must be ashamed of yourself. Have you got any stats from wherever to justify that accident/crime rates will go down(,on a New year eve,) if you do have this dumbest idea in place?
Drunken driving kills so many people every year, it is a major problem today, but I think it can be addressed in two many ways. Few solutions are: Heavy fines, Imprisonment, life-time cancellation of license etc., – Again you see, we already have these laws/rules, but our government doesn’t care to ensure 100% implementation of these laws. It only needs Rs. 50-100 to bribe and get away.

You seem to hate a class of people who are freaky – Maybe you have got something personal. But, I just want to tell you that not all people going to Pub are punks and not all going to Temple/Church/Mosque are saints. Such lifestyle, that you fear of can co-exist with us as long they create problem to any living being.

Cheers,
Karthick

Tomorrow, even the kids of the Double income parents – software engineers and the like, will be casualities of the same lifestyle. We’d better watch it.

It’s true. Was suprised to see teens wielding their cards in the forum and making lot of fuss. Don’t know where these things are gonna end.

Raj,
Agreed. My tolerance level is increasing day by day. At least, I can show my grudge here through my post.

Bangalore has very recently had a couple of similar high-profile rich kids running amok and causing problems for public. One was the chief minister Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil, and the other – model maker, and socialite Prasad Bidapa’s son Adam Bidapa.

Nikhil and his friends assaulted the staff of a hotel which refused to serve them at 12.00 in the night. They pelted the hotel with stones and broke the glass apart from causing a huge ruckus.

19 yr old Adam was accused of assaulting policemen in a drunken fit, when they raided a pub. While Adam’s incident was publicised quite a bit by the media, Nikhil’s doing was hushed up – the hotel owner’s claimed that nothing of the sort happened (even though the broken glass was there for all to see the next morning), and soon, there were a hundred different stories doing the rounds with Nikhil being portrayed as the bakra, instead of the perpetrator. Kumaraswamy claimed later (in an interview in the Times of India) that his son is an innocent lamb, and that his friends had spoilt him… I only pitied the guys whose mouths had to be sealed in an attempt to rescue the CM’s reputation.

And how can we forget Pramod Mahajan’s son Rahul, who had so much of public sympathy and support when his dad was in hospital, but lost it all and suddenly became the overgrown juvenile delinquent when he was reported to have had a drug overdose, and his high-profile lifestyle was thrown open to public eyes.

I agree that such spoilt kids should definitely be punished for their acts, but the reality is that with enough (political) clout, most of these people go scot free, and it is the general public who get into real trouble. A case in point is the one that is generating all the mass media frenzy – Manu Sharma (who’s allegedly shot Jessica Lal).

There are also some other similar rich-kid cases, where the offence may not have been as much, but the media (who’s has equated news to sensationalism and celebrity gossip) makes it the news of the century.

I guess ultimately, these rich kids are the casualities of the lifestyle they are caught in – heavy pockets, instant fame, no restrictions at home, minimal family contact, pubbing, drugs, drink… And soon, it will not just be the rich kids of the politicians and socialites. Tomorrow, even the kids of the Double income parents – software engineers and the like, will be casualities of the same lifestyle. We’d better watch it.