I read a headline in this morning’s leading newspaper – ‘Mob cashes in on accident that claims 8-year-old’. This incident seems to have happened late Sunday night when the victim was traveling with her family on an Activa. The milk van rammed into them from behind and all the three of them fell. The girl came under the wheel of the van and was crushed to death instantly.
A mob gathered and ransacked the van. After some resistance the cops some how managed to calm the situation. But, what happened later was even more tragic. It seems after the scene was cleared, some passers-by came and collected the blood stained milk bags and sold it to local tea vendors. After reading this, I was left wondering as to what was more tragic –the girl child being run over or the incident that occurred later. I mean how much can we stoop. Well, this is not the first time such an incident happened. People have packaged their avariciousness in good intentions and looted sites of disaster like building collapse, bus or train accidents etc. But, the underlying questions is, doesn’t our conscience prick us. How can we bring ourselves to think of flicking valuables when there a innumerable people groaning and writhing in pain around. Or for that matter from a corpse that lies drenched in blood or even disfigured.
Though the phrase says that it’s a dog-eat-dog world; I am sure that this seldom happens in the dog’s world. At least I have not come across any instances that are recorded in the resources available to me where a dog attacked a dog and then ate it. What I am trying to drive here is that despite being animals and having carnivorous instincts, animals seldom commit such a heinous act. But we being humans, the so called evolved and the superior among all living beings, we don’t even bat an eyelid for a second before we commit such immoral acts. When I read instances where dogs put their life at stake to save humans, I am forced to think if the world, in the literal sense, is going to the dogs.”
A mob gathered and ransacked the van. After some resistance the cops some how managed to calm the situation. But, what happened later was even more tragic. It seems after the scene was cleared, some passers-by came and collected the blood stained milk bags and sold it to local tea vendors. After reading this, I was left wondering as to what was more tragic –the girl child being run over or the incident that occurred later. I mean how much can we stoop. Well, this is not the first time such an incident happened. People have packaged their avariciousness in good intentions and looted sites of disaster like building collapse, bus or train accidents etc. But, the underlying questions is, doesn’t our conscience prick us. How can we bring ourselves to think of flicking valuables when there a innumerable people groaning and writhing in pain around. Or for that matter from a corpse that lies drenched in blood or even disfigured.
Though the phrase says that it’s a dog-eat-dog world; I am sure that this seldom happens in the dog’s world. At least I have not come across any instances that are recorded in the resources available to me where a dog attacked a dog and then ate it. What I am trying to drive here is that despite being animals and having carnivorous instincts, animals seldom commit such a heinous act. But we being humans, the so called evolved and the superior among all living beings, we don’t even bat an eyelid for a second before we commit such immoral acts. When I read instances where dogs put their life at stake to save humans, I am forced to think if the world, in the literal sense, is going to the dogs.”
