Posted by: MadDoGG December 1, 2008
Mob mentality and Kathmandu( WHY?)
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      Its late night in Kathmandu around 12:00 o' clock. Its wedding season and Pasang is driving his Maruti Gypsy after returning from the hospital where his wife is admitted due to pregnancy complications. Just five days ago while visiting the doctor, the doctor had said that everything was alright but yesterday due to severe pain in the belly Reema, Pasang's wife was rushed to the emergency where the she got admitted immediately. Pasang is very nervous and worried for Reema and their First child, He wonders why the doctors cant figure whats going on? he feels helpless and resorts to the higher power and prays to God as he drives. He has tears in his eyes and with a heavy heart he feels a little better after praying. He again starts to ponder about what they could have done wrong to cause this complication, was it the food they were eating because Reema loved extra spicy foods, or was it because of the jolt Reema had when she almost fell when she tripped on shoes Pasang carelessly left in the room despite Reemas thousand request to leave them on the shoe rack.?? or it could even be the result of Reemas daily activities around the house instead of resting??? He didn't stop her from lifting stuff and even going up and down the stairs which the doctors had told her to avoid. And how could he have yelled at her and fought with her in numorous occasions when the doctor had told him that she should always be in a happy, relaxed and positive mood............all this thoughts becomes too much for Pasang to handle as he pulls over on the side of the road in Putalisadak. He burries his head in the steering and starts to cry. He loves Reema more than his own life, It was Reemas wish to have a child and to start a family. Pasang cries  more and more. Since its veryt late at night occasional bike or a taxi pass by Pasangs parked Gypsy.the road is wide and people or vehcles dont pay attention to his Gypsy. Thinking its time to go home and get some rest so he can visit Reema early in the morning he wipes his tears and takes a couple of deep breaths and looks at his back view mirror to see any reminance of tears, red eyes due to crying as the whole family awaits his arrival at home and he didn't want to make it ovious. As he was looking back he sees a fast approaching motorbike straight at his parked Gypsy, like in blink of a second the biker realizes he is way off on the road and is heading to a parked car and tries not to hit the Gypsy but its too little too late effort. His bike hits the back of the gypsy breaking the sidelight and leaving a dent on the  back of the Gypsy. The biker now off balanced fish tails another hundred feet and falls to the ground. All happened so quick and fast that Pasang couldn't figure out what had happened. All he knew that someone clipped his car probabely a drunk comming back from a wedding party. He quickly steps out of his vehicle and checks his car very quick as he glances on the biker who is lying still about a 100 feet from him. As he sees his shattered sidelights and a dent on his bumper he gets a little mad and runs towards the fallen biker whose engine is still running. The biker doesnt move at all as he still has his helmet on. He looks like a man on his 40's and has a suit on. couple of people gather around the biker and asks what happened. Well Pasang tells them that he was parked on the side of the road when this biker cliped his Gypsy and he lost controll of his bike. Some more people start to stop and check out the comotion while Pasang calls the police. A traffic police who was nearby comes to investigate and Pasang tells him the whole thing and hands out his lisence to him. The police man stops a Taxi and asks the public to put the man so they can take him to the Hospital. While doing this more bikers stop and the crowd has become rather large and some of them in the crowd starts yelling , "OI GYPSY KO DRIVER KA CHHA ...SAMATERA RAAKH TA BHAAGLA FERI". some start saying, MARYO JASTO CHHA, CHITTO HOSPITAL LAG, MANCHHE MARLA. the police and some of the crowd including the traffic gets on the taxi. More traffic police comes and is detailed by the first Traffic officer. Then the Police van approaches and the police yells out, SABAI JANA PACHADI HAAT, YAHA KE BHAYO. Pasang nervous approaches the police inspector and tells him the whole incident....and the police inspector says its ok  but he has to come to the station with them with the Gypsy and give the full report in written detail and they would sent a investigation team to the scene of the accident the next day. As they are talking the police gets an intercom in his wireless to bring Pasang to the hospital and while Pasang is trying to grasp the situation two police grabs him and takes him in the Van and the crowd cheers with joy. The police asks him for his keys to his Gypsy and he hands it to him. The inspector directs the police to take the Van to the Kamalpokhari Station and wait for instructions. Now the start driving and pasang realizes that they are heading towards Bir hospital. Once out of the van the police tells Pasang to pay the hospital for the medical charges of the biker. Pasang doesnt understand why he has to pay when it wasnt his fault, He refuses to pay and thats when he realizes that the mob in Bikes from the accident scene had followed them to the Hospital. Hearing Pasangs reply one of the people shouts out loud, OI DAI MANCHHE MARNU LAGYA CHHA, KE HO TAPAI MA MANAVTA BHANNE CHIZ CHAAINA?? YO BHOLI TAPAI KO DAI BHAI BHAYEKO BHAYE  KE HUNTHYO??? Pasang replies back, Hoina dai haru, mero galti  nabhayera paani  maile yo manchhe ko upachhar kina garaune??? ushko pariwar chhaina ra. One of the doctor yells out loud Chhitto salaine chahiyo natra yo manchhe marchha, pasang hands out money to the police who sends one of the sipai to get the saline water. ONE man from the crowd tells pasang " thik garis bhai, manchhe ko jyan ko aaghadi ..saahi ra Galat ko ke matlaab. Tyo ta bholi thaha bhaihaalchha ni, Ahile usko jyan bachaauna ma timro faida chha. Pasang luckily had some money with him which he had carried for his wifes treatment and now was pouring it in this guy who unfortunatele clipped him and is lying on the table in a coma. All of a sudden a loud wailing noise interrupts the emergency room and a lady in her night gown is crying her heart out in front of the biker..DR SAAAB WAAHAA LAI KE BHAAYOO??? KINA BOLNU HUDAINNA?? YO KASAARI BHAYOO?? EYYY BHAGWAAN, MO KE GARU, RAKSHI NAKHAANU BHANERA KATTI BHANNE????? ......she goes on and on. All of a sudden two men arrive in the room, they seem to be relatives of the biker and heads straight to the bed and holds the wife of the biker while other asks the police what happened, The police gives a short answer to the man, Tapai ko manchhe ra Gypsy Ko takka bhayeko raichha. The man Enraged asks where is the gypsy driver?? and people in the crowd show pasang. The man now yells and walks toward pasang saying" OI SALA TALAI TA MO MAARCHHU...MERO BHINAJUI LAI HANEKO TAILE.....TERO ETRO AAAT >>>>SALA as he leaps towards Pasang who now has no clue what has happened and The police quickly grabs the man who now wails.........OIIIIIII SALA DRIVER TERO KAAL AYO JASTO CHHA TALAI TA NAMAARI CHHODINA...CHHOD DE MALAI CHHOD....soon some more men and women arrive and they now want to Kill Pasang. Quickly the police realize the situation and takes pasang out with full police cover into the van away from the crazy mob the bikers family in grief had created in the hospital. Pasang is taken to Hanuman Dhoka where he request to call his dad.  A successful business man. He arrives immediately and pasang explaind what has happened. Pasangs dad Mr Pemba Limbu comforts his son and tell him not to worry and he will take care of it. Pasang tell his dad to not tell Reema about any of this or it will upset her.Now inside the DSP's office Pasang's dad discuss the situation with the DSP, Pasang tell the DSP everything as it was and the DSP says he understands everything but he points out that someone is dying, its a case of morality where one family is about to loose a loved one, the biker has two small kids who depends on his salary to survive, if he lets Pasang go what will happen next is going to be bad no matter whose fault it is. They might take to the streets and even the media and make this an issue of corruption and bribe. So he cant let Pasang go and he has to locked up in jail untill further notice and progress on the bikers health and its also a case of a bigger vehicle against a smaller vehicle and the law states that the bigger vehicle is always at fault no matter what...its the LAW and thats that.......Pasang cant believe whats going on and what is he going to tell Reema whom he promised to be on her side the very next day. Now in Jail he decideds to call her, he dials the phone and hospital picks up. He says "room 112 please Reema Limbu "...........Hellow'' ko boleko........Pasangs eyes fill up with tears as he bites his lip and tries to say hellow back but he cant........"Hellow ko ho.....Hello khoi kei pani sunena.......HELLOW!! kasto manchhe"..........she answers.....Pasang...draws a deep breath and as normal as he can sound says ri REE uh rr..Reema Ha..uh ... h..hellow............................To be cont.
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