Posted on 07/29/2016 3:14:21 PM PDT by rickmichaels
LUCKNOW, India -- Police arrested a shopkeeper for axing to death a couple from a lower caste for not promptly paying a meagre debt of 15 rupees (29 cents) for groceries, an official said Friday.
District Magistrate Pramod Chandra Gupta said the upper caste shopkeeper killed the couple in a rage Thursday, severing both their heads, when they asked for more time to pay for the groceries they bought from his shop in Mainpuri, a town in Uttar Pradesh state.
The Dalit couple were construction workers and left behind five children, Gupta said.
"The shopkeeper panicked after killing the couple and hid in the village. But he was arrested," he said. The shopkeeper is from the Brahmin caste. Formal charges in the killings would be filed after the police investigation is completed.
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Remember...all cultures are equal.
That's why the AP picked up this story. To let us know that Donald Trump is going to have us killing Muslims and Dalits and bears and virtue-shame us.
Funny—they don’t mention that violent attacks against Christians by Hindus have increased tremendously in the past few years in India.
“The shopkeeper panicked after killing the couple”
That happens sometimes.
“A hot stake’s better than a cold chop.” — Curly Q. Link
What did the bears do wrong?
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Muslims and Dalits and bears, oh my!
Upper caste Hindus are pretty nasty people. Used to have a bunch of them in Sacramento and their level of racism would offend a Nazi Klansman.
India society is unlike anything we have ever had in this country. It’s extremely rigid.
I’m not killing any bears. Some of them are armed.
LUCKNOW, India
No luck now.
It’d be justice if he couldn’t pay his attorney’s fees.
Remember the old money lender extraction of ‘one pound of flesh’?
I guess the modern interpretation means ‘the head’ (even though average weight of heads are more than one pound).
Well you know if you let one couple slide on 29 cents all the rest will want a break as well; after a while it will add up to a good solid couple of bucks and then what are you going to do. No, it is better to chop this problem off at the head.
A human head weight???
About eight pounds.
Don’t ask how I know.
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Jerry McGuire.
CC
I foresee a new round of TV commericals, “For just 29 cents a day, less than the cost of a cup of coffee, you can save poor people in India from getting their heads chopped off...”
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