Another strange rift emerged this week as a simmering battle spilled over into the open to reveal a hatred that has been brewing now for quite a while. The issue...so say the mechanics had something to do with the loss and theft of spare parts by one group. The result was catastrophic. A host of car repair men descended on the young people and sought to bring their wrath upon them with bricks and sticks and any other makeshift tool that they could come up with.
The young street children were left with no choice but as nature dictates responded with equal force even if some of them were met by the bigger mob of angry vehicle men.
While on the surface it seems as though the challenge was one of theft, my guess is that it points to something much bigger...a collapse in an organized system of crime and the likelihood of a spillover where someone had to take the fall.
I seems to be common knowledge of the existence of a larger group whose sole purpose seems to be to handle a burgeoning industry in parts.
Alas in these parts too, the truth is the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
It is strange to see that in this situation, the usually well functioning law enforcement people were left speechless and unable to move in the presence of the mammoth crowd of irate citizens.
Now once again I wait for the fallout of this incident. I have few doubts that there will probably be an escalation if not a deepening of resentment and two groups nurse their wounds.
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