Red Means Stop.

Traffic safety is something that is taught to every child once he reaches an age where he can fully comprehend and understand things. "Look, left, right and then left again" has become the anthem for helicopter moms and policemen. Don't run across the road or step in front of a car are some rules that children don't tend to forget easily, not with their self preservation at stake.

But we mustn't forget that not only humans use the roads but other animals also do tend to cross them. These animals unfortunately cannot sense the flow of traffic and its up to us to drive sanely. Any Indian worth their driver's license should know that. Stray dogs sometimes dash across the road madly in an attempt to somehow reach the other side. They act completely out of instinct and don't know how to judge the oncoming traffic. Their first reaction will be to cross to the other side at any cost. One slight mistake by a careless driver and that dog will never reach the other side.

Not only dogs but other animals too are in extreme danger of being hit while crossing the roads. Buffaloes especially. These animals generally move around in herds and you can often notice the traffic breaking around them like a stream would around a rock. These great beasts simply don't budge from their path whether its a car about to ram into them or a bus! No one has taught them to walk on a foot path, they don't give a hoot to our skimpy human customs.

So in other words its almost too easy to run over a wayward puppy or cat. I've had too many painful and real life experiences with these kind of accidents. Just a few days ago a puppy I saw alive the previous evening  was smashed to pulp the next morning. The people who commit these kinds of crimes ought to be charged with murder. Believe me it would be a big deal if it was a person under the wheel of the vehicle rather than an animal.

The law would catch up to anybody who was involved in the accident and make them pay. The thing that's really sick about this is that the same kind of injustice happens everyday with animals but is failed to brought to notice. The worst thing about these drivers are that these scum never stop for a second to check whether the animal they hit is going to be okay or has already passed away or what. They owe at least that to their victim.

But I'm sure that not everyone is so thickheaded. So, Please if you see this kind of thing happening on a road near your house, make the person who brought about the suffering pay and provide the animal care. It's not the mere fact of being human that induces humanity in us but only by executing any act of kindness that helps a lesser being we understand the true meaning of being humane.