format_quote Originally Posted by
ardianto
When I visited local online newspaper site I read the news title "Tanker truck overturned and blast on Pakistan road. Kill at least ....." immediately I wonder, how could this traffic accident kill so many people?. But after I read the news article I began to understand.
This is actually a common phenomenon in the third world countries. A truck overturned on road, and local people rush to loot the truck cargo for themselves. Looting is wrong, of course. But they don't care. They see it as "lucky gift".
Is it because poverty?. Actually it's about mentality, although poverty has contribution in building this mentality.
Those victims must be knew that fuel is flammable. But euphoria because they thought they could get something for free made them neglect the danger although police had warned them.
There is a lesson that we can take from this tragedy.
I get what you mean. That being said, I'm afraid that I may have been one of the locals to collect the fuel, reasoning that "the fuel is going to get wasted anyways. Who is going to get hurt if I help myself to some?" It is a faulty reasoning, but when there's an announcement on the loudspeakers and everyone is running to get some of the "gift", it's easy to get carried away.
What I find truly despicable, however, is this kind of incident (
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/peru-cra...racts-looters/), where there was a plane crash and people looted the site. People eagerly ran to the crash site to steal from the dead, and they seriously compromised the investigation in the process.
That being said, there is indeed a lesson to be learned from this incident because it could have been prevented