Sunday, December 19, 2010

Economic poverty versus wrong arrest

A Caucasian who had been probably driven to crime by financial deprivation(not that I am advocating it), decided to carry out his plan with ingenuous creativity. He put on a mask that made him look like a black man, so that he could escape arrest.

The public did fall for it. A man who matched the features of the mask was arrested at first and the mother of another black man thought at first that her son was the criminal, when she saw the mask on television. Thankfully, the Caucasian could not get away from his double crime: robbery and attempting to frame another for his own crime.

It is quite sad how poverty and perhaps greed too can drive people to more than crime. They have no qualms about making others their scapegoat as well. Sigh.

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