In this tiny nation we often get to hear of crime and it never seems to reduce. One day you may wake up to find your house was robbed! Or maybe you were mugged while walking home after a long day’s work! Or maybe get beaten up for taking a good look at some “gang members” girl! Whatever the reason and the crime maybe it seems to increasing always rather than decreasing!
Anyway, when you think of it for a while you can actually come up with a “life cycle”!!.. (see diagram below) It is so common in Maldives. It’s almost as if the jail is a “crime education center”! Which reminds me of the movie “Blow“!!.. Johnny Depp, who plays the part of “George Jung“, gets jailed and his cell mate Diego Delgado, played by Jordi Mollà, says to him “You arrive here with a Bachelor of Marijuana, but you will leave with a Doctorate of Cocaine.“! It’s exactly like that here in the Maldives. I’m not saying that ALL the people who come out of jail goes back into crime. But it’s what happen most of the time and if they get out from jail it’s like they get trained to be fearless to do worse stuff!!..
January 29th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Aharen, its not just in Maldives. If you look at most places in the world you’d see the same trend, hence, the concept being portrayed in the movie.
However, i do have a problem with all the pardoning that goes around in this small community.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:40 am
I agree!
January 29th, 2008 at 4:32 am
A mighty good post! Gone are the days of order and predictable living in Maldives. One of the things that people fear most is crime. Mafia-like gangs have transformed Male’ from one of the safest cities in the world into one that can be compared to Chicago during the wild, crime-ridden 1920s.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:40 pm
LOL! Good one!
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
u’re absolutely spot on here. good one
March 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Funny one…