Flame For The Polices
Today, a truck of my company got burned down. It was fully loaded with rattan - which are easily burned - and somebody didn’t take a close watch on that cleaning chemical they put in the back. All of a sudden the chemical went *spoof* and burned half of the load. Fortunately, no one got injured and the truck is okay, save for a few black patches in the open-air box behind the truck.
This day marks another bad case of Indonesian police force. It was clearly an accident, and they suspected us of arsoning? And they went to take the cleaning chemical to the lab for analysis? Just what the heck are they thinking in their stupid heads? In addition of NOT being sympathetic to someone who just had a bad accident and NOT being helpful AT ALL, they went to take the truck with the load as proof material to their station, and it cost us millions! You see, not all of the rattan load was burned, but all of the load are wet because we had to shower the load with water to put the flames out. If the remaining load are not properly dried up, they will become smelly and rotten, and we won’t be able to sell them. We’ve explained that to them, but yeah, like they even got ears to listen, the police officer even rode the truck above the load like as if he have caught some hijacked truck or something, but it was just an accident, see?
We’ve tried to negotiate with the police so that we can take the remaining load (ok, you can take the burnt rattan as proof, no problem, and that is logical, but why take the safe remaning load too?) and like they don’t understand how much we have lost in this incident yet, they asked us a sum of five million rupiah! We tried to negotiate half the price, but they won’t accept. Man… we lost almost ten millions just because of the fire, and we lost almost another million to pay for expenses (i.e. for the water, for the people who helped, etc). The police seems to be blind to all that, like they don’t care, and they think the millions grow in our garden. This event shattered the already ruined image of the police force even more in my sight. They can catch criminals, stop gambling practices and solve murders like all I care, but if they keep going like this, I’m not gonna love them or like them anytime in my life. It will take a lot from them for that. Well I have to admit that I know of some good polices, but these kinds are rare nowadays. Mostly the police are just for the money these days, and almost everyone who have got an experience with the police - even once - know that.
They can also read this and arrest me like all I care. Yeah, like they can ever found me…
