Insanity

I had originally planned to make a Sarunas Jasikevicious special for this post, seeing as he just got to Athens earlier today, and it is sort of a big deal for Greek basketball in general, but something I heard made me change my plans. The Jasikevicious post will have to wait until tomorrow.

So what was it I read that made such an impression on me?

Remember the forest fires that destroyed countless forest acres in Greece earlier this summer? Especially the fires in August, in Peloponnisos, where more than 70 people died?

One of the places in Peloponnisos that was hit the worst was the prefacture of Ileia, where 45 people died.

It is in that very place where our story takes place, and more specifically in a small field, where a woman had gathered the stray dogs of the area. It was there that she fed them and gave them shelter, as stray animals do not live that long when left on their own, as you may know. Such a thing is common practice, after all.

Now, in our case, the neighbors of this woman begun complaining about the noise the dogs did during the night with their barking. Imagine that, dogs barking. Whatever will happen next?

It has happened before, people complaining about the noise that animals sometimes make, and in some cases these people end up poisoning said animals. Is this what happened here?

Nope.

They set the field on fire in order to kill the dogs, and of course it worked. The field burned to its entirety, and all the dogs burned alongside it.

Let us now assume, for the sake of the argument, that the noise the dogs were making was so terrible and so loud, that nobody could stand it. Let us also assume that the people in question could not, for whatever reason, talk to the woman and maybe find a more logical solution. This way, we reach the conclusion that killing the dogs is the most effective method of solving this predicament.

How the fuck do you decide to set an entire field on fire, when the entire region was almost annihilated by fires a mere month ago? I'm not even going to discuss how inhumane, how downright sick it is to kill so many animals just because they get on someone's nerves. There's pills that can help you with that, jackass. Leave the poor animals alone.

After all, it's always our fault that domesticated animals end up stray, it's us that leave them to their fate. But we always oh-so-conveniently forget that when we have to deal with a stray, don't we?

Though seriously, how fucking stupid must one be in order to do such a thing? Set an entire field on fire, a fire that could very well spread to a near forest and destroy what little acres of wood were left? Don't forget that you can never control a fire.

Honestly, words fail me. What's worse, nobody is ever going to do anything about this. I hate this country so much sometimes.