Disturbing Trend of "Accidental" Killings

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A Disturbing Trend of "Accidental" Killings

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Its difficult enough to wake up in the morning and read news of politically-inflicted wars, of gruesome beheadings and the wobbling state of the world financial market. And oh yes, we haven't included our personal problems thrown in for some added mess.

And as if that's not enough, why not make it harder by adding fear of the risk that one may be "accidentally killed" by the unsuspecting waitress you're having a squabble with about your 20 cents breakfast change!

Perhaps anger-driven murder happens everyday around the world but the numbers of these "accidental" murders have been worryingly increasing over the months in Malaysia.

But of course catching these news in the local newspaper seems like a complicated treasure hunt. The news appears to be tidily reported in small sliver collumns of the newspaper that not only one has to wear high powered military goggles to read but it's also almost never made it to front page but neatly tucked away... back in page 19 (just about the time you decide you've had enough news and skip page 19 to get to today's Garfield dose).

Just in a span of few weeks, there has been 3 seperate incidents on anger induced culpable homicide. Just last month in July, a 35 years old local threw punches at a VCD peddler when he cursed and threw a bottle at him after a misunderstanding.

In an unreported interview with witnesses, the peddler had hurled profanities on Dulamit Sulaiman about his mother which tipped Dulamit's patience.

In the heat of the moment, he took an earth-filled pot weighing about 13kilogram and threw it at the peddler, fracturing his skull.

While in another short tempered  shocker reported on 29th of July, an Indonesian worker, Lili Ardi Singa was convicted by the Malaysian court of killing a housewife, Khairun Bee Sharif, a Malaysian, at her home when she failed to pay his plumber's fees.

The housewife had refused to pay Lili's services of fixing the pipes in her 2 bathrooms and she allegedly had threatened to call the police and have the plumber deported.

Lili fearing that she would carry out the threat had slapped the housewife, punched and then stranggled Khairun Bee, 55 to death.

The court sentenced Lili for 12 years imprisonment read out the judgment to the accused that although Khairun had refused to pay, Lili had no right to go so far as to take her life.

And in a more recent case was about a 29 years old parking attendant T. Vivien James who was "accidentally" killed while trying to pacify a misunderstanding that broke out between 4 friends playing a game of carrom!

Vivien James was stabbed on his chest with a sharp object when he tried to stop a heated exchange after the accused, M. Krishnan lost the game to some friends. The Malaysian HighCourt judge Datuk Mohd. Zaki Yassin found M.Krishnan guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced him to 6 years of jail.

These are just a fraction of the reported cases available to the public, but unintentional murders like these shouldn't have happened in a modern society that doesn't lack in anything.

Do you think all the heat from the global warming has made us short fused when provoked? (Oh please don't respond to that)

But seriously, why the desperate lost of self-control? I think even meat-hunting Neanderthals have better restraint and self will than us.

I think because we are currently living in a world that's spoils and decadent on self-indulgence, which makes us believe that we can escape and abscond -- almost anything. Tsk.. disturbing thought no?

Newslink: Lili Ardi Sinaga's case, M.Krishnan's case