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India-Pakistan
Two Robbers Burnt Alive after being Beaten Up by Crowd
2008-09-04
Doncha hate days like that?
KARACHI -Two unidentified robbers were caught, badly thrashed and then torched to death by angry residents late on Tuesday night in the low income area of Buffer Zone.
Crime Does Not Pay - in THE ZONE!
According to eyewitnesses, two armed men on a motorbike mugged one Mohammed Riaz and were fleeing when they were caught by dozens of residents of the locality.
"Spoked wheels don't feel us now ... oh rats ...."
First the enraged people beat up the two robbers severely and later set them on fire.
"Hey! What's with the gasoline?!!"
"Beating ain't good enough for yass!"
A police party was rushed to the scene who shifted the two men to a nearby hospital where they were pronounced dead due to multiple injuries and burns to their bodies.
"Whatcha think, Muldoon?"
"Medium-well done, Sarge."
Police took some of the men involved in the incident into custody and booked them for taking part in the death of two the men.

This is not the first time that angry residents have torched alleged robbers to death in the city where everyday hundreds of people are mugged and at times are killed at the hands of armed robbers.
And if you punish enough robbers you can get a job at the RAB ...
Posted by:Steve White

#9  Kingsford sez: this is wrong.
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-04 21:25  

#8  This is what happens when law enforcement is unable or unwilling to protect the citizens. The robbers will be served vigilante justice, which may or may not be fair and orderly.

Some are shot, some are beaten to death, some are flambeau. That is vigilantism.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2008-09-04 19:22  

#7  Buffer Zone III: Citizens on Patrol...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-09-04 14:38  

#6  Stutter flame thrower not involved.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2008-09-04 14:35  

#5  First the enraged people beat up tenderized the two robbers severely and later set them on fire.

Robber-Kabobs, yummie!
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-04 12:51  

#4  Otoh, if we had a cave full of AQ and a flamethrower, well, hey, light 'em up.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2008-09-04 07:20  

#3  I'm the farthest thing in the world from pro-mugger, but this is just wrong.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2008-09-04 07:13  

#2  But still is barbaric - what's up with people from the third world and setting men on fire or splashing women with acid? We've had "incidents" like those in France, notably one where a (white) security guard at a mall was doused with gazoline and horribly disfigured by a mob of (black) youths, because they saw him as a "racist".

Anyway, back on this one, trouble is, the mentality behind it is exactly the same that allows mobs to go on rampage in minorities neighbourhood, or to put bombs in "heretical" places of worship.

"Cool" as it might be from a macho pov, this still is barbaric and primitive, and the symptom of a dysfunctional society. I have no prob with law or paralegal elements being empowered to deal with criminals in the harshest way (but beware whom the "law" terms as criminal, revolutions tend to produce weird and abusive definitions of that, just think of France or russia), but mob lynching is not an healthy response IMHO.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-09-04 04:33  

#1  Certainly reduces the recidivism rate and keeps the incarceration expenses down.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-09-04 03:12  

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