Bengaluru News: ‘Why are you running a business?’: 5 try to ‘courier’ man in gunny bag in Bengaluru, argue with staff after being denied | Bengaluru News

BENGALURU: A bizarre incident kept police on their toes Tuesday evening after a group of people brought an elderly man stuffed inside a gunny bag to a courier office and sought to deliver the “package” to Mangaluru. The group of six, which included two women and the elderly man, went to the courier office located in Vinayaka Circle near Vyalikaval, close to Sadashivnagar in Central Business District, saying they wanted to courier something packed in the gunny bag. When asked by the courier agency staffers what was inside the huge gunny bag and where they intended to courier it, one of them opened it and out popped an elderly man!

Shocked, courier agency staff refused their request and asked the “customers” what was going on. When they told them a human could not be couriered, the group insisted: “But we want to courier him to another district.”Instead of apologising for their prank, the group questioned the agency staffers why they were running the business if they could not courier the bag with a man in it. “They went to the extent of demanding money from them, saying they had wasted their time and energy. The group gave water to the man in the gunny bag and he drank it. They walked away carrying the bag, saying they would find another courier agency which will, for sure, agree to courier the man in the bag,” a police officer told TOI.

Some of the passers-by and neighbouring shop owners were seen peeping out and trying to understand what was happening. As police reached the spot and interacted with them, one of them revealed that some of those in the group were recording reels on mobile phones.‘Bid to highlight soaring bus ticket rates’Police checked the CCTV footage from the courier agency and nearby shops and succeeded in tracing the group of people, who all turned out to be members of the same family.A young woman confessed that that family had played the prank and recorded a reel in a bid to highlight soaring bus ticket prices for travel during Ugadi and Ramzan festivities. She told police that she was upset as her aged father could not travel to Mangaluru because of the high prices.Police said no charges had been filed against the family. “If the owner or manager of the courier agency files a complaint, then we can act sternly for the practical joke they played,” police said.