A man in the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India, has died after the driver of a private ambulance took him off of life support and threw him out of the vehicle so he would have the opportunity to rape his wife.
According to The Times of India, the incident occurred late last month after the woman hired the emergency vehicle to escort her, her brother, and her husband home after he was discharged from a hospital in Lucknow due to financial limitations.
Speaking with police, the woman explained that on the way home, the emergency vehicle driver asked her to sit in the front seat next to him to avoid being stopped by police.
“I was forced to sit in the front seat, and then the driver and his companion started molesting me. I objected, but they did not listen to me,” she said, adding that her husband and brother sensed something was wrong and began trying to intervene from the back of the ambulance.
As a result, the men stopped the ambulance near the Chhawani police station, where they “forcibly removed the oxygen mask from [the woman’s] husband and threw him out” of the car before locking her brother in the front and proceeding to molest her.
In addition to sexually assaulting her, the woman also informed police that the men looted over $120 USD from her purse, jewelry, her identification card, and her husband’s hospital reports.
Jesus fucking christ is it just open season on women all the time there?!
It's not. Imagine if you heard of the shootings in America, and only the shootings. You'd think that every school or public place was dangerous, but in reality, shootings are rare generally.
India has a lot of rapey bastards, but it also has a population about twice that of Europe. India is definitely a shit hole that needs to be fixed, but it's hardly everywhere all the time.
And yes, it's really bad over there compared to the rest of the (western) world. They need to get there shit sorted. I also feel somewhat hopeful because from my experience, the younger educated population is "saner" and doesn't absorb the local culture (both good and bad parts) around them due to social media and what I call "Americanization."
Also, there are 4 times the people as the US living more densly.
every sentence I just read made your point worse
Alright, buddy.
I dunno what that other guy is smoking, I appreciated the level-headed perspective your explanation offered.
They started with "it's not open season on women", but then kept adding comments like:
That's why I felt like their original point was made worse by their comments.
Those are all basically the same thing and qualified by the main point: Like elsewhere in the world, there are crappy people in quantities relative to the population size, given disproportionate exposure by the unflattering confirmation bias of media.
And keeping with their initial example, the US also has a lot of school shootings. Doesn't mean schools are dangerous.
Just because it isn't dangerous to the average individual does not mean it isn't a problem and something that should not be happening.
The entire point of this thread is that from an outsiders perspective, you're only going to see the news articles and form biased opinions. You're going to see "Oh wow, the US has a lot of school shootings, schools must be super dangerous!", meanwhile there were 82 deaths from school shootings last year out of 49.4 million students, or 0.000165% of the student population. Even looking at injuries, we only get to 0.00054%.
Is that number too high? Fuck yes. Any number of children injured or dying due to violence is unacceptable. It's disgusting and the lack of response from our leadership is abhorrent. But are schools in the US dangerous because of this? Absolutely not.
As a woman, I would probably visit Saudi Arabia before I would visit India. India is literally the only country that a fellow traveler has ever recommended against going to to me.