The tanker had an accident in the morning when it overturned while taking a turn, because of the overturn the oil started spilling. seeing all this petrol the locals gathered around to collect what ever petrol they could find and eventually some thing sparked a fire and did so much damage.
It's sad to see how people gathered to steal that petrol. It's a problem with subcontinent people. We are always hungry. How much petrol they could have stolen from that tanker, at most 10-20 litres. But was that worth there life? The westerners might think that those people were so poor that's why they were trying to steal the petrol. Which isn't the case at all. In subcontinent we have this habit of being a show off or clever guy, those kind of clever heroes that we see in our movies, we try to be that guy. We love to break the lines. We are so happy when we borrow something from some one and then never return. We are that kind of society morally. No wonder we are where we are.
Most of the people think that the government is corrupt but its actually every one of us. Our labourer is corrupt, our shopkeeper is corrupt our street hawker is corrupt , and then we want to target Nawaz sharif only. Its a shame.
Who ever governs us is always going to be one amongst us. Aren't most of us corrupt. We are so happy when we steal some one else's money.
For Pakistan or India to prosper we need honest people in the lower classes and middle classes, not the other way around.
In this oil tanker incident , no one should have gone near the tanker . They were simply stealing. And in this race of dumbness they didn't even think that they were sitting on a mountain of fire which could go off any time.
Moral of the story : Greediness makes you blind and once you are blind morally you don't care if you are stealing or rapping or killing. Your greed becomes your master and you become the powerless victim and in the end, who is laughing? Shame really.
