A man in the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India, has died after the driver of a private ambulance took him off of life support and threw him out of the vehicle so he would have the opportunity to rape his wife.

According to The Times of India, the incident occurred late last month after the woman hired the emergency vehicle to escort her, her brother, and her husband home after he was discharged from a hospital in Lucknow due to financial limitations.

Speaking with police, the woman explained that on the way home, the emergency vehicle driver asked her to sit in the front seat next to him to avoid being stopped by police.

“I was forced to sit in the front seat, and then the driver and his companion started molesting me. I objected, but they did not listen to me,” she said, adding that her husband and brother sensed something was wrong and began trying to intervene from the back of the ambulance.

As a result, the men stopped the ambulance near the Chhawani police station, where they “forcibly removed the oxygen mask from [the woman’s] husband and threw him out” of the car before locking her brother in the front and proceeding to molest her.

In addition to sexually assaulting her, the woman also informed police that the men looted over $120 USD from her purse, jewelry, her identification card, and her husband’s hospital reports.

  • @weariedfae
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    Jesus fucking christ is it just open season on women all the time there?!

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s not. Imagine if you heard of the shootings in America, and only the shootings. You’d think that every school or public place was dangerous, but in reality, shootings are rare generally.

      India has a lot of rapey bastards, but it also has a population about twice that of Europe. India is definitely a shit hole that needs to be fixed, but it’s hardly everywhere all the time.

      And yes, it’s really bad over there compared to the rest of the (western) world. They need to get there shit sorted. I also feel somewhat hopeful because from my experience, the younger educated population is “saner” and doesn’t absorb the local culture (both good and bad parts) around them due to social media and what I call “Americanization.”

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      • @EvacuateSoul
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        Also, there are 4 times the people as the US living more densly.

          • @Jimbabwe
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            I dunno what that other guy is smoking, I appreciated the level-headed perspective your explanation offered.

            • @[email protected]
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              They started with “it’s not open season on women”, but then kept adding comments like:

              India has a lot of rapey bastards

              India is definitely a shit hole that needs to be fixed

              yes, it’s really bad over there compared to the rest of the (western) world

              They need to get there shit sorted

              That’s why I felt like their original point was made worse by their comments.

              • @Jimbabwe
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                Those are all basically the same thing and qualified by the main point: Like elsewhere in the world, there are crappy people in quantities relative to the population size, given disproportionate exposure by the unflattering confirmation bias of media.

              • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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                And keeping with their initial example, the US also has a lot of school shootings. Doesn’t mean schools are dangerous.

    • Drusas
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      As a woman, I would probably visit Saudi Arabia before I would visit India. India is literally the only country that a fellow traveler has ever recommended against going to to me.

  • @[email protected]
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    533 months ago

    I would be careful using The Publica as a source (owned by Rumble). This is an extreme right leaning group. Jeremy Hambly is co-founder and a 30 second google shows he is a massive piece of shit.

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      Thanks for the heads up, I just saw the article pass by and found it interesting. I did check their source which is timesofindia. The source does contain everything mentioned in the article. Not sure how reliable timesofindia is as a newspaper though.

        • @[email protected]
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          It sounds like these events happened. I would just be cautious with op. Right wing nut jobs like to paint India as a rape capital and all of its males.

          • queermunist she/her
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            Again, I’m not disputing that the events happened.

            My point is that they pick and choose which events to show us. It’s a very selective lens meant to push an agenda.

        • @LinkerbaanOP
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          There is a common theme about these abominable stories in India, they almost always happen in Uttar Pradesh. It’s like the Florida of India.

          There’s like 250 million people living there which is close to the population of the whole US, so statistically you’re bound to get crazy stories.

          • queermunist she/her
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            There’s things happening in Uttar Pradesh other than gang rape, public defecation, and murder. We don’t hear those other stories in the West, though. In part it’s because bad news attracts eyeballs, but there is an agenda to present Indian men as savage monsters.

        • pipsqueak1984
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          Literally every media outlet curates which stories it publishes, this is not unique to this website.

          • queermunist she/her
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            No shit, some media outlets curate stories based on whatever will make the most money.

            And other media outlets curate stories to push an agenda.

      • @[email protected]
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        I would say a massive red flag would be no author attached to the article. However, multiple outlets have cover the event with some providing more info. It is hard to tell credible source, a lot are bias but not as credible. They like to make shit up.

    • Fish [Indiana]
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      Just looked it up. Jeremy Hambly… of The Quartering. Didn’t realize he co-founded a media outlet. Thanks, now I know to avoid it.

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    Why is it when Uttar Pradesh is mentioned it’s always news about woman getting sexually assaulted jfc

    • @Plopp
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      Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of the world, but like, way worse.

      • @AbouBenAdhem
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        It’s like eleven Floridas crammed into the space of Michigan.

      • Drusas
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        I can accept that there are good things about Uttar Pradesh which are not reported to the Western world. For example, it looks like a beautiful place.

        However, those good things not being reported doesn’t really impact the frequency of such horrible atrocities being committed there.

    • Drusas
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      Some of them are also being eaten by wolves recently. The children, mostly. But that is not as common a problem as women being sexually assaulted is.

  • Drusas
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    303 months ago

    What the FUCK is wrong with Uttar Pradesh? Because it is almost always Uttar Pradesh. And more importantly, why isn’t the government doing anything about it?

  • @Kiwi_fella
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    This reminds me of the ambulance scene from the movie Redirected.

  • @friend_of_satan
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    13 months ago

    He was just tempting fate by leaving a town called Lucknow in an ambulance.

      • @friend_of_satan
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        It was a joke. Dark humor is a coping mechanism that helps some of us avoid letting the existential dread creep in. Slaughterhouse 5 “so it goes” and all.