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When Lawyers attack

Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Thu Dec 12, 2019 6:46 am

Three patients have died at a hospital in Pakistan after it was attacked by hundreds of lawyers wielding sticks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50757383

Video showed the lawyers ransacking wards at the cardiac hospital, beating up staff and smashing equipment.

As panic spread, doctors and paramedics hid, leaving patients unattended, including those in a critical state.

Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the lawyers and more than 20 arrests were made. It took more than two hours to restore order, officials said.


Is it time to crack down on the lawyer menace? I say there are just too many of them.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Dec 12, 2019 6:54 am

I am sure the arrested will get off free soon enough. I heard they know quite a few lawyers that can help them :(
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Postby Fartsniffage » Thu Dec 12, 2019 6:57 am

Stories out of the sub-continent are always insane. It's brilliant.
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Postby Satuga » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:18 am

Gotta look fashionable when beating hospital employees, leading to the death of multiple patients.
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Postby Page » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:23 am

That is some weird shit, and it makes me think I could make a fortune starting an anger management business in Pakistan cause apparently they need it.
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Postby Alvecia » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:26 am

The lawyers had been protesting over the alleged mistreatment of some of their colleagues by hospital staff last month.


"I can't believe we're being mistreated. Let's go beat some people up."
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Postby Lost Memories » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:28 am

What led up to the violence?

There has been simmering anger among young lawyers since 20 November when half a dozen of them accompanied a colleague to the hospital for the treatment of his sick mother, says the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.

There they got into an argument with hospital staff and a doctor on duty, leading to a fierce fist fight in which the lawyers were outnumbered by the hospital staff.


So it was lawyers vs medics.
Quite unreal, it would be like having a taxy drivers vs bread bakers fight, with sticks.

Rip all the people who were involved in this insanity.
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Postby The Alma Mater » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:39 am

Lost Memories wrote:
What led up to the violence?

There has been simmering anger among young lawyers since 20 November when half a dozen of them accompanied a colleague to the hospital for the treatment of his sick mother, says the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.

There they got into an argument with hospital staff and a doctor on duty, leading to a fierce fist fight in which the lawyers were outnumbered by the hospital staff.


So it was lawyers vs medics.


Just be happy there were no rocket scientists involved ;)
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Postby Outer Sparta » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:40 am

Those lawyers need lawyers then.
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Postby Lost Memories » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:42 am

What led up to the violence?

There has been simmering anger among young lawyers since 20 November when half a dozen of them accompanied a colleague to the hospital for the treatment of his sick mother, says the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.
There they got into an argument with hospital staff and a doctor on duty, leading to a fierce fist fight in which the lawyers were outnumbered by the hospital staff.

Both sides filed police complaints against each other but no arrests were made.
But tempers ran high, and both sides got their respective professional associations involved to bring pressure on the police to arrest members of the opposing party.
This forced the provincial authorities to intervene and an agreement was reached on Tuesday under which the hospital staff agreed to apologise to the lawyers while the lawyers agreed to withdraw their complaint.

But at that moment, the video of a young doctor bragging about how the lawyers involved in the 2 November episode had been humiliated was posted on social media and went viral, our correspondent adds.
An angry meeting of the lawyers took place at the bar council's office on Wednesday morning, where many of them decided to march on the hospital about 3km (two miles) away.

Footage on social media shows a lawyer walking ahead of his marching colleagues and addressing the doctor in the earlier video, inviting him to see the "sea" of lawyers heading towards him.

Most likely the first lawyers asked for a preferential treatment for the mother of their colleague, the doctors refused, as patients are ordered by urgency and severity of their ills. (having to accept that rule is always tough for both patients and relatives)
The lawyers got violent because they weren't granted preferential treatment.
Things then escalated when a doctor poked fun at the lawyers for having been humiliated, in a video which went viral.

Tough class conflict.
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A fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine, but was unable to.
As he went away, the fox remarked 'Oh, you aren't even ripe yet!'
As such are people who speak disparagingly of things that they cannot attain. -The Fox and the Grapes

"Dictionaries don't decide what words mean. Prescriptivism is the ultimate form of elitism." -United Muscovite Nations
or subtle illiteracy, or lazy sidetracking. Just fucking follow the context. And ask when in doubt.

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