Yet again, another common scene on the roads of Bangalore!
A cute little kitten smashed on JC Road. All that was left to see was a stretched skin with some fur that was just enough to indicate that it had once had a little heart inside it...
At about 9 in the morning, when I was rushing to office, my eyes caught a calico skin glued to the road. My heart aches to imagine the pain that this little kitten had gone through when it was hit by a monstrous vehicle. It might have been just injured and yet not dead when it was hit by another vehicle... and the sequence probably had continued until 9 in the morning till it only had its skin left on the road.
Only a very few eyes from the speeding vehicles noticed the silent heart breaking tale that JC Road had to say that morning!
A little jubilant soul that had waited all day to cross the road in the midnight only to be squashed by our business! Who knows there might be a poor pet guardian, still waiting each moment of the day hoping that the dear one will return home!
This is not the only instance! Off late the roads of Bangalore have witnessed numerous such cases
each day. Animals run over by vehicles and left to be squashed continuously until the last mark of their remains gets eroded with yet another speeding wheel!
Time is precious! No doubt.... but is it really more precious than saving ourselves the guilt of being a murderer the rest of our lives?
Accidents happen! It is human to make mistakes! But is it human to leave behind a dying/injured life and flee away?
Accidents happen "accidentally"! Running away from it does not!
In the unfortunate event that an animal is hit by our car, can't we simply spare 5 precious minutes of our time to ensure that the injured animal is at least moved to the side of the street where it can rest in peace, if not call for an emergency help!
Is there really much of a difference whether it is a human or an animal that is hit by the car? The pain of injury is of the same intensity in both cases. It is only that the helplessness is rather intense incase of animals!
Let us all be Man and human enough to shoulder the responsibility of the injured being.
Even a million Animal Care Organizations in the city would not be of help unless each one of us grows the same human values to foster kindness and care for each and every living being.
Be kind ! Make Bangalore a safer place to live for us and for our dear animals!
3 comments:
Most of the time vehicles can slow down. I have seen that in two cases, one involving my school bus, there was every opportunity for the vehicle to slow down and let the dog cross, but the driver simply did not care and it almost looked like he took pleasure in running over the animal involved.In both cases atleast the dog was helped by us but think of the hundreds who are not.
unfortunately, i have seen people walk by ignoring humans who are half dead/hungry/hurt...i cant see how they'd stop by to pick an animal in distress. i remember too the case of the cow you found in the rain. it is a terrible thing to say, but this is true.
we need a phone number..like an emergency number. and yes, we also need people to slow down and be more kind. what's going to make that happen..i dont know.
What was so amazing to me in Bangalore was that I frequently saw dogs lying down, napping, just taking it easy, in the middle of wildly busy roads, where racing, honking, vehicles ignored any semblance of traffic laws, missed each other time and time again only by inches, and yet those dogs felt perfectly safe and it seemed that a runover was rare.
Conversely, as Jellicles alludes to, I came upon on accident on the highway which left two bikers lying dead in the road, and no one was attending to them. I believe there were injured people in an overturned truck; they too were unattended. Our chartered taxi driver would not stop, but passed by without a sideways glance.
My host said that it was because everyone was afraid that if they did anything to help, the police would make their lives miserable once they arrived upon the scene.
Here, in the US, I have seen drivers such a yasmine refers to - drivers who have intentionally gone out of their way to strike down a small animal crossing the road.
Poor kitten.
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