Why?

As Douglas Adams had said in one of his books (can’t remember which one… I guess it’s one of his unfinished works) WHY is the best question possible.

He went on to give some fairly brilliant examples. This is one I remember:

He: Will you go to bed with me?
She: Why?

He also went on to give reasons like ‘Why’ is the only question, which has an alphabet named after it. (Not the exact words, but similar gist)

Then he said the best answer to the question ‘Why’ is actually an equally elusive phrase ‘Why not?’ A question with a question for an answer.
Again, not the exact words but somewhat similar.

Anyways, that apart, it occurred to me to come up with this ‘why’ series, just questioning the ways of the world in general. Artistic answers expected.

Here’s the first of them:

Was watching TV sometime last evening and was on one of the news channels. There was this funny dude in a police uniform who was midway between threatening us and cautioning us of dire consequences of God knows what. He’s damn funny I tell you.

Somewhere along the way, he told us about the capture of some thug in Nepal who was a henchman of quite a few of the regular Bombay honchos who’re accused of currently residing in Dubai, Pakistan, Satyamangalam forest and other such places with which we don’t have an extradition treaty going. Wow.

Back to the point, this moron is in Nepal and is caught. We also got a brief glimpse of his career. Boy, looks like the underworld has a HR dept and a recruitment policy of it’s own. This guy has really switched sides quite often.

They showed us some footage of him caught and being accompanied to an about-to-come-apart police van. His face was all covered and he was quite short.

Now the question. Why did they cover his face? If he’s ashamed of having done whatever he’s done, then why did he do it in the first place? Or Was he ashamed of being caught?
In any case, he’s caught and people who caught him don’t like him (apparently), then why accede to his requests of having his face covered?
Also, they go about all the hard work of sketching out his face and developing it further and then putting it up (with other info) in the ‘Wanted’ list (still comes on DD) and then they allow him to hide his face.

Same deal with the local dudes who get caught committing frauds and all that. There are 2 reasons their face ought to be shown:
1) We’d know that we’ve got to avoid doing business with this person. (if we bother remembering)
2) The insult would frighten a few others from trying out something of the sort.

I don’t see any benefits to society in general with having their faces covered.

Why the cover?’

Do we have the rights to be lenient towards people who’ve wronged us?

Ask the friends/relatives of those who died in Bombay. And thank you media, for praising the “Spirit of Mumbai” and promptly forgetting everything about the people who are suffering.
Guess Prince in a hole is more important.

-Komodo Dragon