We have these wonderful “E-Sampark” centres all over the city where you can among other things get a bus pass, pay your electric and water bill, file a right to information request, pay your mobile or landline bills, buy stamp papers or revenue stamps, get a birth or a death certificate and if you happen to be starving even buy subsidised and vitamin fortified wheat flour at a discount. Nothing to complain about them really, they are nice comfortable places which are air conditioned and they even have a TV to pass the time while you wait.
So yesterday I went to pay my electric bill and I observed they had this notice there. I guess the photo is a bit incomplete so I will repost what I saw on the notice …..
“Dear Customer
1 PM is cash tally time and the same has to be handover to bank collection team which comes around 1:15 PM as such case the cash counter’s will stop taking bills for atleast 5 to 10 minutes (approximately) at around 1 PM.
Kindly bear with us
Sampark Centre-18″
Apart from the terrible English, I am sure you can probably guess what it means but if you can not what they are basically saying is — that the bank people come around 1 PM to collect cash from their centre and they can not take bills for around 10 minutes around the time when it happens.
So here is my question now, why should not some person who has every intention to get rich by a couple of hundred thousand rupees come over at 1 pm, point a gun at their heads and take away their cash one fine day? Which brilliant mind had the idea to give away this information? I mean these guys are loaded with money, so any of you guys out there if you want to make a quick buck and if you own a high calibre handgun or two, head over to E-Sampark Centre, Sector 18 its adjacent to the road that heads to Madhya Marg and cuts between Sector 17 and Sector 18. Good Luck!
August 18th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
“And I’ll take a 10% commission…” You should make that clear.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
LOL odzer…
hope they put their everyday transaction amount there 
August 20th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Well, Waiting is not an issue.
But inviting is great,. come and get all cash you can. Challenge to be accompalised in 4-10 minutes!
Dare do it!
LOL
September 1st, 2009 at 9:33 am
@ Priyank : That is ‘understood’ any information that leads to profit from this blog automatically entitles odzer to 10%.
@ Kanagu : Oh damn, they forgot I will ask them to.
@ Sunny : 4-10 minutes eh. Yeah that would be adequate but they do have a sleeping guard outside you will have to tackle him first. All the other times I have seen him drinking chai perhaps to avoid falling asleep on his job
October 18th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Here in Boston, if someone wants to steal money, they can do a bit of stakeout and note the times when the armored truck arrives. It’s one more step than displaying the information right in the bank or the jewelry shop when the bank people arrive to pick up the cash.