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This happened on a highway in China. 40 passengers, mostly males
were on an
inter-state bus. Halfway through the journey, two thugs on
the
bus suddenly went up to the lady bus driver and demanded that she
stopped
the bus and follow them to a waste grounds nearby. The lady driver
refused
and began to put up a fight against them. At the same time, she
cried out to
the other passengers in the bus to help her.
However, the other passengers not only cruelly turned a deaf
ear
to her cries, they even suggested that she give in to the
thugs'
demands so that they can carry on their journey quickly when they
are done
with her. One young man amongst the passengers stood out to chide
the rest
of the passengers and tried to help the lady driver. However,
sensing that
the majority of the people do not have the guts to resist them, the
thugs
grew even bolder and beat up the young man. They then forcefully
dragged
the lady driver out of the bus.
Right on the side of the road, the two thugs took turns to
rape
the lady driver while the rest watched. After the thugs have
satisfied
their lust,they commanded the lady driver to return to the bus and
resume
with the journey. With tears streaming down her face, the lady
driver begged
that they drive the righteous young man out of the bus as she is
too ashamed
to face him again.
The young man felt absolutely stupefied. So much for trying to
speak
up for the lady and now he is thrown out and left stranded on
a
desolated highway!
Hours later, when the lady driver passed by a mountainous cliff,
she sped
up and flung the whole bus with all its passengers over the cliff,
right
into the bottom of the valley.
This story was retold later by the only survivor of the
journey
- the righteous young man driven out of the bus."
Recently there have been a spate of events that reveal the
ugly
side of our "civilised" society. Not so long ago, a Malaysian bus
driver was
viciously beaten up when he tried to stop a snatch thief. He was
surrounded
by members of the public, watching with their arms folded. Another
baby is
found in a dust bin and was nearly crushed to death by durian
husks.
I question myself. Have we gone from the stone age to become even
more
barbarious? Has the condition of the human heart degenerated to
being no
different from that of an animal? Did the lady bus driver
commit
suicide because she couldn't bear the shame of being raped or is
it
because she has given up on the humanity of "humans"?