One thing which made me feel bad in the recent Delhi zoo incident or should we call it as an accident is the way in which people behaved by filming the event. If I was in that situation, I wouldn't have taken a video of it. Many videos are floating in the internet of that incident, I haven't purposefully seen it and I wish not to see it, because it was purposefully filmed, which is of no use.
At this age of selfies, when two or more people meet they invariably end up in taking pictures, of course these are moments to be cherished, but not when someone is battling for his life.
Most of us have good mobiles, with a decent clarity which can shoot pictures and videos, but this does not give license to shoot everything. We have seen videos of accident happening on the road, those are not intentionally taken, just “accidentally shot”. I would like to pose a cliched question, “Will they take a video, when their near-dear ones are trapped like that guy ?”.
What is the purpose of shooting the video, are they going to watch it on a Sunday evening with their family\friends or share it in Social Media and troll on it. And, there is this mob mentality in social media, which shares the video by the tag line “Be aware of the tiger”, as if we don't know what a tiger can do. Pathetic.
This reminded me of the film, Untraceable. The story is to catch a serial killer. He streams the killing in a website, the more hits\visitors the website receives the sooner the victims are killed.
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