{"id":601,"date":"2008-09-24T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T05:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/?p=601"},"modified":"2008-09-24T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T05:44:54","slug":"a-step-up-from-stealing-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/24\/a-step-up-from-stealing-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Step Up from Stealing Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raj Thackeray bitches about how bhaiyyas from the cow belt come to Mumbai, become cab drivers, and steal jobs from the Marathi Manoos. I&#8217;m not sure how he&#8217;ll react to <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Mumbai\/Cabbie_takes_jewel_thief_for_a_ride\/articleshow\/3520083.cms\">this amazing story<\/a> (TOI link. I&#8217;m sorry, but nobody else is carrying it). Here&#8217;s the summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shop assistant steals two kilos of gold from a Bangalore jeweller and decamps to Mumbai, intending to go further to Dubai and live a life of pleasure alone<\/li>\n<li>On getting off at Dadar, he gets into a cab being driven by a UP-wala<\/li>\n<li>Cabbie realises that shop assistant is new to Mumbai and drives him all over town with the meter running<\/li>\n<li>While in the cab, the thief tells the cabbie about his nefarious doings and his plans to move to Dubai<\/li>\n<li>Cabbie tells thief that he needs to get a passport and visa first, that he has a friend who&#8217;s a visa agent, and that he&#8217;ll take thief over to meet him and get a visa and passport made<\/li>\n<li>Cabbie drives around Mumbai with the meter running even more on the pretext of taking thief to visa agent<\/li>\n<li>After a whole day of driving around, the thief needs to pee and gets down<\/li>\n<li>The cabbie drives off with the two kilos of gold<\/li>\n<li>The thief is indignant and goes to the police station to complain about the theft of the gold he&#8217;s stolen.<\/li>\n<li>The Mumbai police check with the Bangalore police, and book him for the original theft<\/li>\n<li>The cabbie remains at large<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The whole thing is like a Saki story. I love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raj Thackeray bitches about how bhaiyyas from the cow belt come to Mumbai, become cab drivers, and steal jobs from the Marathi Manoos. I&#8217;m not sure how he&#8217;ll react to this amazing story (TOI link. I&#8217;m sorry, but nobody else is carrying it). Here&#8217;s the summary: Shop assistant steals two kilos of gold from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50],"tags":[273,375,701,889,1033,1284,1295,1360,1478,1583,1802,1873,2189],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirder-than-fiction","tag-bhaiyya","tag-cabbie","tag-dubai","tag-gold","tag-ill-gotten-gains","tag-life-of-crime","tag-live-a-life-of-pleasure-alone","tag-marathi-manoos","tag-mumbai","tag-on-the-lam","tag-raj-thackeray","tag-riotous-living","tag-taxi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-9H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}