Mangalore: The general tendency is to avoid the police at any cost except  when they are most needed to over come a crisis or to catch a thief. But occasionally you get to hear of a policeman doing a good turn by being friendly and generous.

Rarely are they Kind and win public appreciation for doing their duty in uniform.

A batch of College students from Chitradurga on a 3-day tour of the coast this week came to Mangalore and went through a hard experience. They saw Pilikula sanctuary and left around noon to tour other places but with a drunken driver at the wheel of their bus.

The driver mentally off control hit a car at Vamanjoor around noontime, and not stopping there again rammed into 2 bykes near Kudupu, which has a deep valley on one side and hill on the other injuring the rides of owned vehicles.

It did not deter the inebriated driver from stepping on the accelerator and speeding as if nothing had happened.

For students it was real roller-coaster ride with life in their hands and gasps in their mouth many times more dangerous on turns of the roads back city. Some people managed to stop the bus at Kudupu. They intimated the rural locally police in Kankandy who rushed to the spot and took the drunken driver with his bus into custody. The bus was brought to the police station with students and teachers around 1 PM.

The lecturers informed the bus owner to make alternate arrangements, which the latter agrees to do.

But for hours there was no further news of another bus and the boys and teachers went without food. That is where the police stepped in as a good Samaritan (described in the Bible).

The police provided food to the starving lot. Circle Inspector Ravish Nayak made all necessary who brought food to them like caretakers.

The students returned home the same night by another bus arranged from Chitradurga. The drunken driver has been warned but not let off.

Hats off to Ravish and his police team the college boys and lectures say. The Kankanady police should punish the driver under law