I was fined for displaying a Catholic Cross

[boyrocky]

thota hoda wade.... agama pracharaya karanna yanawata

 

[kosandpol]

Indeed it is pointless. What I have said in this topic is not false... these things are their and no one can say it is not. Buddhist community is NOT against the Catholic Church! Buddhist leaders who are a few extremists are trying to make an issue using the advantage of minority! Which the same thing the Sinhalise did to Tamils.

oh great. now its going from religion to racism. Was this the aim all along ?

 

[blood_brotha]

උබේ මොපෙඩ් එකේ ෆොටෝ එකක් දාපන් බලන්න ඔය කියන LED සෙට් එකත් එක්ක..
(දැන් කියන්න එපා මගේ ගාව කැමරා එකක් නෑ, ඒක ගැලෙව්වා අනං මනං..)

උබේ ත්‍රෙඩ් ගොඩක් ඒවගේම තියෙන්නෙ මොකක් හරි ආගම පටලගෙන කෑගහන සීන් එකක්. උබ හිතන්නේ පොලිසියෙන් අසාදාරණ වෙන්නේ බුද්දාගමේ නැති උන්ට විතරයි කියලද?...හරියට පොලිසියේ ඉන්නේ ඔක්කොම බුද්දාගමේ උන් විතරයි වගේ..
මේ රටේ තියන නිදහසෙන් හරි සතුටු වෙලා ඉන්න බලපන්. හැම එකටම complain කරන්න හදන්නේ නැතුව.

අනික මොන ලෝකෙද බන් බුදුසරණයි කියල LED වලින් බයික් වල ගහගෙන යන්නෙ, බොරු කියන්න එපා.. පෙරහැර වල් වල නං යනවා ඇති..

bike eka allapu police kaarayath catholic nam pattama aathal ekak yai

 

[Miami-Vice]

Indeed it is pointless. What I have said in this topic is not false... these things are their and no one can say it is not. Buddhist community is NOT against the Catholic Church! Buddhist leaders who are a few extremists are trying to make an issue using the advantage of minority! Which the same thing the Sinhalise did to Tamils.

Sinhalese did to Tamils??? Maybe you made up the whole bike story to get to this point? Not very nice!

 

[^Night Fury^]

I made a LED blue cross by myself and installed it on the face of my moped motorbike. I've been riding with it on for the last several months without issue. But today a certain unit of Police officers stopped me and fined me for having a "Extra lamp" and told me to remove the cross from my bike. The cross has been epoxy glued (Welded) to my bike face.

Mama Nil LED walin Kurusayak haduwa, Mama eka mage bike ekke mune weld karala wage yakada alawana gum walin fit kara. Mama dan bike ekka masa ganak kisi police case ekkak nathuwa padda. Eth today mawa police unit ekken nawathhala "Athereka pahan dal wi ma" kiyala dadayak gahuwa. Mata police ekka kiyanawa Kuruse galawala danna lu.

Mokak da me jara wade... Mama one tharam wahana dakala thiyenawa "Budu saranai kiyala wind screen eke LED walin hadala thiyenawa. Thuk mehema jara ratak, Katholika apita thama okkoma gas dan.

This is dirty work and attacking for Catholic's... i have seen many cars, vans, lorries displaying LED "Budda" things.... Why not cross? Its is because this is a Buddhist country?? I will never remove my cross. As a Catholic, it symbolizes our life, and Jesus Christ. They and fry my Driving License in a frying pan, But I have the right to express my religion as any other person.

23 years we fought because of Nationality.... are we going to spend the next 23 fighting for religion?

EDIT:

1. LED brightness does not travel a long distance, its really impossible to say that my cross caused the persons vision to be upset.... Now if I placed another Halogen blub, then yes. I will be wrong.

2. The law was put in place to stop bright lights from blinding on coming vehicles. And to avoid three wheelers from looking like pickup trucks etc.

3. If you'll have seen Mate bikes with the bracket in-front... remember they have TWO head lights out of their manufacturer spec. And that would be a even worse offense!

4. I ride my bike over 2000KM/s a month around Colombo and out of Colombo, I have had run into various police officers and NONE ever said anything about a extra lamp, LED can barely be visible if a put the Head beam... I ride normally on the dip. To be a lamp it must illuminate the road... my cross is not a bright light to do that.

5. A Buddhist Police officer can make a exception to a law if it was a LED "Darma Chakraya" considering its their religion symbol. It would be the same if the Police officer was Catholic. Really, the law is there to stop Accidents, Police can depict the law the way they want it.

I am not a idiot, I know if my LED lights are a distraction. If they are flashing/changing color... yes. But they are not. Also from the officers tone he spoke he was not enforcing the law... he was enforcing his attack and hate on the Cross... there are a lot of Buddhist who now say "Kuruse Adahana Wesige Putha"... I do social work so I'm in preview of some peoples extremism on "This is a Buddhist only country". I am afraid that when these people see a cross they really do get distracted... nothing to be done about that.

පොන්න චිරන්ත මැට්ටෝ.....තොට කතා කරන්න ඕනේ භාෂාවත් මේක තමා.....තොපි වගේ ගොන් හැත්ත හින්දා තමා මේ රටේ නිකං ආගම්වාදය ඇවිස්සෙන්නේ???

කියවපිය බල්ලා මේ යට තියෙන එක....

මචන් 2007දි විතර මාවත් ඔය විදියට පොලිසියෙන් ඈල්ලුවා.මම නිල් පාට LED දෙකක් Bike එකේ Signal ලයිට් දෙක ගාව Set කරල තිබුනා.හෑබෑයි එකෙ නම් කුරුසයක්,දර්ම චක්‍රයකවත් තියා මොන රෙද්දකවත් හෑඩයක් තිබුනෙ නෑ.
පොලිසියේ පොර මට කිව්වෙ LED වගේ Light ගොඩක් Bright නිසා අනිත් රියදුරන්ගෙ අවදානය වෑඩියෙන් යෙදෙන්නේ LED වලට කියලා.ඒ නිසා ප්‍රධාන Lights වලට තියන අවධානය අඩු වෙනව කියලා.
හෑබෑයි පොර මට දඩයක් ගෑහෑව්වෙ නෑ.පොර මට තේරුම් කරලා දුන්නා හේතුව.ඊට පස්සේ මට යන්න කිව්වා.මම පහුව දාම LED ගලවලා දෑම්ම.මොකද පොලිසියට බයේ නෙමෙයි එකෙන් තවත් කෙනෙක්ට අනතුරක් වෙන්න පුලුවන් නිසා.

අපේ මිනිස්සු හෑම වෙලවෙම හිතන්නෙ තමන් හරි අනිත් අය වෑරදි කියලා.කවදවත් තමන්ගෙ වෑරෑද්ද තෙරුම් ගන්නවත් ඒ ගෑන හොයලා බලන්නවත් උත්සාහා කරන්නේ නෑ.
ඕක අද ඊයෙ හදපු නීතියක්වත් නෑතිනම් ආගමකට විරුද්දව උන දෙයක් නෙමේ.රටේ නීතිය ගෑන තමන්ගෙ නොදෑනුවත් කම නිසා උන දෙයක්.ඒ ගෑන හොයලා වරද හදාගන්නව වෙනුවට මෙතන ජාතිවදය නෑතිනම් ආගම් වාදය ඈති කරන්න හදනවා.
අපේ මිනිස්සුන්ගෙ මේ මෝඩ ගතිගුන නිසා තමයි මේ රට දශක කීපයක්ම යුද්ධ නිසා විනශ වෙලා ගියේ.දෑන්වත් මිනිස්සු ඒක තෙරුම් ගන්නේ නෑත්නම් මේ රට විනාශ වෙලා යන එක නවත්වන්න කාටවත් බෑ.

මම මේ කිව්ව දෙවල් නිසා කාගේ හරි හිත රිදුනනම් Sorry.ඒත් ඈත්ත මේක තමයි.

මචන් උබ නිකමට හිතලා බලපන් මේ Title එක මොනතරම් සාධරනද කියලා.

තෝ හැම එකාම දාපු පෝස්ට් වලට කමෙන්ට් කරලා තිබ්බා....ඇයි තෝ ඔය උඩින් තියෙන එකට රිප්ලයි එකක් දැම්මේ නැත්තේ??? හොඳට කියවපිය ඒක.....තොගෙ ලබ්බ් කුරුසයක් අල්ලන් දඟලන්නේ....නීතිය කාටත් පොදුයි....මොකද මීනී මැරුමක් කලාම ඌ කතෝලිකයි නම් අල්ලන් හිරේ දානවා බෞද්ධ නම් හිරේ දාන් නෑ? තෝ එහෙමද කියන්නේ???? තෝ ඉස්කෝලේ ගිහින් තියෙනවා ද කියලා වත් Sure නෑ....යකෝ ආගම් භේද ජාති භේද නැතුව ඉන්න හැටි කියලා දෙන්නේ ඉස්කෝලෙන්.....තොට අඩු ගානේ ඒකවත් ඉස්කෝලෙන් හම්බෙලා නෑ....

ප.ලි.: මගේ වාග් විලාසය නිසා වෙන සාමජිකයෙක්ගේ සිත රිදුනේ නම් Very Sorry...මොකද මේ ටික මූට ඔහොම කියලත් හොඳ වැඩියි....

 

[kevindareal]

gahanna thibbe 25,000 vithara dadayak

 

[SaNDun]

1. LED brightness does not travel a long distance, its really impossible to say that my cross caused the persons vision to be upset.... Now if I placed another Halogen blub, then yes. I will be wrong.

2. The law was put in place to stop bright lights from blinding on coming vehicles. And to avoid three wheelers from looking like pickup trucks etc.

3. If you'll have seen Mate bikes with the bracket in-front... remember they have TWO head lights out of their manufacturer spec. And that would be a even worse offense!

4. I ride my bike over 2000KM/s a month around Colombo and out of Colombo, I have had run into various police officers and NONE ever said anything about a extra lamp, LED can barely be visible if a put the Head beam... I ride normally on the dip. To be a lamp it must illuminate the road... my cross is not a bright light to do that.

5. A Buddhist Police officer can make a exception to a law if it was a LED "Darma Chakraya" considering its their religion symbol. It would be the same if the Police officer was Catholic. Really, the law is there to stop Accidents, Police can depict the law the way they want it.

I am not a idiot, I know if my LED lights are a distraction. If they are flashing/changing color... yes. But they are not. Also from the officers tone he spoke he was not enforcing the law... he was enforcing his attack and hate on the Cross... there are a lot of Buddhist who now say "Kuruse Adahana Wesige Putha"... I do social work so I'm in preview of some peoples extremism on "This is a Buddhist only country". I am afraid that when these people see a cross they really do get distracted... nothing to be done about that.

post a pic of your bike will ya.. of course taken @ night with all ur lights & LED's on

 

[chirantha7777]

Where were you when the city council removed the temple structure that was at borella junction ?
And no, road side and the road are NOT equal even though both are public places,

Read the law books please. Kthx.

Ask from the school about why there's no statue of jesus in it. While there are such categories, All semi govt schools in this country are required by law to teach and practice buddhism. They way you avoided that part shows that the school in question is a semi govt. school and you're just showing your bigotry against buddhists.

I went the PWC, we were never thought our religion in the school. When our parents complained you know what the monk said? "Ubalata mona agamada, ubalage agame mathpan ne bonne, eka jara agamak"

Nothing happens. Go to other predominately christian areas in the country and see. There are statues of various saints erected at road sides, juctions, and in front of temples (across the road) and they are staying there just fine.

And so? These were instead before the law was enforced.... read the law book please kthx... and I ask you.... do you know reason why the law was created recently?

suggest you look at a mirror first.
I know enough about the lad and society to spot an extremist bigot (thats you if you didnt figure it out by now) when I see one.

Bigot? Ok ok, I'm a bigot.... what does that make you?

No such thin has happened as yet. You still staying in moratuwa and making this unnecessary noise proves that.

REALLY? This is the mind people had when the Tamils got beaten....

so you're angry that a cop had guts ?
well woo pi doo.

Guts are thing that are controlled by humanity... if a man acts like a animal like you... we humans are worse than animals.

I'm not the one angry or whining. You are. Its proven by yout tone throughout this thread.


Oh this is rich. You cant see beyond the religious aspect of the matter and yet you are calling me narrow minded.

You have, in so many words, accepted that you have broken a law but you're finding fault with the police for buddhists for it. The police is an instrument to enforce the law, by which they are required to be not partial to religious matters.
Still you have avoided my question yet again : do you accept that if you had your cross on the side of the bike, you wouldnt have got pulled over by cops in the first place ?

Mr. kosandpol, I don't know if you from a good family or not there are eticates and humanity when dealing with subjects. A person putting a lit cross on a bike is not wrong nor a bad thing. Now if this was a lit sexy lady we might have a problem

Now its not wrong to suddenly leave the dinner table, but there is a method to leave the dinner table by respecting the table head by asking permission. These are called manners (if you didn't know)

The Police is there to serve the people. They must remember that! Religion is a thing of the people. If a person wants to display their religion on vehicle then yes, its their right to do so. The legal frame work was never meant for stopping a cross. It was meant to stop a three wheeler looking like a Container at night. A police officer must respect religion and people and work accordingly. Did you know, that its ok to have two head lights one on top of another? but you cannot have two more on sides, which would be illegal. So I have actually not broken the law... Law states the lights must distinguish the vehicle so my cross is not wrong and nor is Mate bike with two head lights (one on top of another).. I just got my License back

According to you the Church can situate a statue infront a temple. Yes its possible! but people don't do it, its not human and it will be a disrespect to that religion Society is more complex than you think. People don't behave like animals, but they can if they want to.

 

[chirantha7777]

post a pic of your bike will ya.. of course taken @ night with all ur lights & LED's on

Sure I will... tonight. But I don't have any other LED's just the cross I don't want my bike to look like a effin Pandol

 

[^Night Fury^]

Sure I will... tonight. But I don't have any other LED's just the cross I don't want my bike to look like a effin Pandol

No you dont need...Coz instead of your bike....You look like a Effing Panadol

 

[hiran_79]

I made a LED blue cross by myself and installed it on the face of my moped motorbike. I've been riding with it on for the last several months without issue. But today a certain unit of Police officers stopped me and fined me for having a "Extra lamp" and told me to remove the cross from my bike. The cross has been epoxy glued (Welded) to my bike face.

Mama Nil LED walin Kurusayak haduwa, Mama eka mage bike ekke mune weld karala wage yakada alawana gum walin fit kara. Mama dan bike ekka masa ganak kisi police case ekkak nathuwa padda. Eth today mawa police unit ekken nawathhala "Athereka pahan dal wi ma" kiyala dadayak gahuwa. Mata police ekka kiyanawa Kuruse galawala danna lu.

Mokak da me jara wade... Mama one tharam wahana dakala thiyenawa "Budu saranai kiyala wind screen eke LED walin hadala thiyenawa. Thuk mehema jara ratak, Katholika apita thama okkoma gas dan.

This is dirty work and attacking for Catholic's... i have seen many cars, vans, lorries displaying LED "Budda" things.... Why not cross? Its is because this is a Buddhist country?? I will never remove my cross. As a Catholic, it symbolizes our life, and Jesus Christ. They and fry my Driving License in a frying pan, But I have the right to express my religion as any other person.

23 years we fought because of Nationality.... are we going to spend the next 23 fighting for religion?

EDIT:

1. LED brightness does not travel a long distance, its really impossible to say that my cross caused the persons vision to be upset.... Now if I placed another Halogen blub, then yes. I will be wrong.

2. The law was put in place to stop bright lights from blinding on coming vehicles. And to avoid three wheelers from looking like pickup trucks etc.

3. If you'll have seen Mate bikes with the bracket in-front... remember they have TWO head lights out of their manufacturer spec. And that would be a even worse offense!

4. I ride my bike over 2000KM/s a month around Colombo and out of Colombo, I have had run into various police officers and NONE ever said anything about a extra lamp, LED can barely be visible if a put the Head beam... I ride normally on the dip. To be a lamp it must illuminate the road... my cross is not a bright light to do that.

5. A Buddhist Police officer can make a exception to a law if it was a LED "Darma Chakraya" considering its their religion symbol. It would be the same if the Police officer was Catholic. Really, the law is there to stop Accidents, Police can depict the law the way they want it.

I am not a idiot, I know if my LED lights are a distraction. If they are flashing/changing color... yes. But they are not. Also from the officers tone he spoke he was not enforcing the law... he was enforcing his attack and hate on the Cross... there are a lot of Buddhist who now say "Kuruse Adahana Wesige Putha"... I do social work so I'm in preview of some peoples extremism on "This is a Buddhist only country". I am afraid that when these people see a cross they really do get distracted... nothing to be done about that.

Ponna Hutto thoge mole thiyenne Pukeda gon keriya, LED walin nethuwa thoge kuruse wena magulakin gaha gattanam harine, methana gon thread daanne nethuwa ....BURUWA

 

[chirantha7777]

පොන්න චරිත් මැට්ටෝ.....තොට කතා කරන්න ඕනේ භාෂාවත් මේක තමා.....තොපි වගේ ගොන් හැත්ත හින්දා තමා මේ රටේ නිකං ආගම්වාදය ඇවිස්සෙන්නේ???

කියවපිය බල්ලා මේ යට තියෙන එක....




තෝ හැම එකාම දාපු පෝස්ට් වලට කමෙන්ට් කරලා තිබ්බා....ඇයි තෝ ඔය උඩින් තියෙන එකට රිප්ලයි එකක් දැම්මේ නැත්තේ??? හොඳට කියවපිය ඒක.....තොගෙ ලබ්බ් කුරුසයක් අල්ලන් දඟලන්නේ....නීතිය කාටත් පොදුයි....මොකද මීනී මැරුමක් කලාම ඌ කතෝලිකයි නම් අල්ලන් හිරේ දානවා බෞද්ධ නම් හිරේ දාන් නෑ? තෝ එහෙමද කියන්නේ???? තෝ ඉස්කෝලේ ගිහින් තියෙනවා ද කියලා වත් Sure නෑ....යකෝ ආගම් භේද ජාති භේද නැතුව ඉන්න හැටි කියලා දෙන්නේ ඉස්කෝලෙන්.....තොට අඩු ගානේ ඒකවත් ඉස්කෝලෙන් හම්බෙලා නෑ....

ප.ලි.: මගේ වාග් විලාසය නිසා වෙන සාමජිකයෙක්ගේ සිත රිදුනේ නම් Very Sorry...මොකද මේ ටික මූට ඔහොම කියලත් හොඳ වැඩියි....

oya kiyana kathawata anuwa balanakoya... godak aya iscole gihilla na.

I went the PWC, we were never thought our religion in the school. When our parents complained you know what the monk said? "Ubalata mona agamada, ubalage agame mathpan ne bonne, eka jara agamak"

Meki, methana okkomala Buddhist wela dan penawa neda defend karana hati. Mata mita wada mona shakshida! Ubala hitanne jiwithe hari rawum kiyala.... dannawada eka thiya loka bole wath hari rawum na.

 

[chirantha7777]

Ponna Hutto thoge mole thiyenne Pukeda gon keriya, LED walin nethuwa thoge kuruse wena magulakin gaha gattanam harine, methana gon thread daanne nethuwa ....BURUWA

Mata eka puluwan nam, mama eka karanawa. Eke waraddak na ne Cross eka nemi case eka.... Agamata kisi gawrawayak nathi eka.

 

[SaNDun]

Mata eka puluwan nam, mama eka karanawa. Eke waraddak na ne Cross eka nemi case eka.... Agamata kisi gawrawayak nathi eka.

ehenam ada reta uba dharma chakrayakata LED set karan ube bike eke Cross eka thiyena thenin eka set karan ara police karaya duty inna dihata gihin balapan adath allanawada nadda kiyala.. moda buruwa !!

 

[chirantha7777]

ehenam ada reta uba dharma chakrayakata LED set karan ube bike eke Cross eka thiyena thenin eka set karan ara police karaya duty inna dihata gihin balapan adath allanawada nadda kiyala.. moda buruwa !!

macho, my light is not illegal! I have not put the light on the sides of the main lamp so no problem

 

[Rex921]

This is not a problem with your religion... That is a rule.. One of my friend also had to face this..(Not a cross two blue blinking LEDs in front of the handle.)mulcted Rs.1000/=

 

[hiran_79]

Mata eka puluwan nam, mama eka karanawa. Eke waraddak na ne Cross eka nemi case eka.... Agamata kisi gawrawayak nathi eka.

mama umbath ekka waada karanne ne gono. BURUWOth ekka mona wadada?

i hope admin will remove this thread

 

[cj4ever]

Mata eka puluwan nam, mama eka karanawa. Eke waraddak na ne Cross eka nemi case eka.... Agamata kisi gawrawayak nathi eka.

mokada banz uba meti moll katha kiyanne
uba darma charka ekak gahan giyath allanava banz




oya dekema thiyena samana kama nam
ubata talk karala jarava deela maaru venna nam one nam puluvan
nethinam dekatama dada gahanava

 

[^Night Fury^]

oya kiyana kathawata anuwa balanakoya... godak aya iscole gihilla na.

ඉතින් බං...උඹ මේ වගේ ගොං කතාවක් කියලා ත්‍රෙඩ් එකක් දැම්මම...අනිත් එවුන් කට පියන් ඉදීයි කියලා හිතුවද?
උඹ උඹේ ආගමට ආදරෙයි වගේ තමා හැමෝම තමන්ගේ ආගමට ආදරෙයි...උඹ ඕක ආගම් භේදයක් ඇදලා ගන් නැතුව දැම්මා නම්.උඹටම බලා ගන්න තිබ්බා කට්ටිය ඔය වගේ රිප්ලයි කරයිද නැද්ද කියලා...

Meki, methana okkomala Buddhist wela dan penawa neda defend karana hati. Mata mita wada mona shakshida! Ubala hitanne jiwithe hari rawum kiyala.... dannawada eka thiya loka bole wath hari rawum na.

ඉතින් බං උඹ Religious issue එකක් ඇති කරලා දැන් උඹ කියනවා අනිත් අය එක පැත්තකට ගිහින් උඹ විතරක් ඩිෆෙන්ඩ් වෙන්න ඕනේ කියලා...යකෝ ඉතින් අව්යි Religious issues එන විදියට ත්‍රෙඩ් දාන්නේ??? මචං උඹ වෙන ආගමක කෙනෙක්නේ...ඒ නිසා උඹ අපිට අපේ ආගම ගැන කියලා දෙන්න ඕනේ නෑ...ඒවා ගැන අහගන්න වෙන ඕන තරම් කට්ටිය ඉන්නවා වෙනම...ජීවිතේ රවුම් උනත් කොටු වුනත් ඒකෙන් උඹට අවුලක් නෑනේ....උඹ 2009 ඉඳලා එළකිරි එකේ ඉන්නේ...ඒ ඉඳලත් හරියට Forum Rules දන් නෑනේ...එහෙව් උඹනේ මේ අපිට කාරණා තේරුම් කරලා දෙන්න එන්නේ...What a shame

 

[chirantha7777]

This is not a problem with your religion... That is a rule.. One of my friend also had to face this..(Not a cross two blue blinking LEDs in front of the handle.)mulcted Rs.1000/=

Blinking, flashing, changing is illegal... obviously... but you can put a extra lamp above your existing. But not on the sides on the main lamp and above because people will not be able to see if its motorbike and so they say. I got my License back