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When lawyers attack
« on: December 12, 2019, 07:45:04 PM »
A dispute between hospital staff and lawyers turns violent.

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According to hospital administrators, more than 200 lawyers wielding sticks stormed Lahore's Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) at midday on Wednesday.

Hospital officials said the lawyers forced their way past security and split into groups, attacking various departments and wards.

Video footage shared on social media showed lawyers - in suits and ties - smashing medical equipment and windows, and beating up staff and officials including Punjab information minister Fayazul Hasan Chauhan who had arrived on the scene to try to restore calm.

Apparently lawyers getting violent is not all that uncommon in Pakistan

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"Pakistanis have been witnesses to violent acts by lawyers for several years now," commented one television anchor on Geo TV on Thursday.

"They have assaulted citizens, attacked policemen, raised their hands on judges and vandalised courts. But yesterday they crossed all limits," she added.
 

Patients die as lawyers ransack Pakistan hospital
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-pakistan-hospital/ar-AAK3JiZ?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=mailsignout
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Re: When lawyers attack
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2019, 08:04:21 PM »
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Re: When lawyers attack
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2019, 08:31:55 PM »
Ought to be a fine day to wake up as one of PAkistan's thin blue line. Shoot a lawyer and save a dying hospital patient? Win-win!

Broward county "Hold my beer." All patients dead, some of the lawyers too.

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Re: When lawyers attack
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2019, 08:55:22 PM »
This is the first I've heard of it, but I have been reading the various news reports.  I don't know how much is true, but supposedly as many as 500 lawyers participated, and 250 have been charged with *treason*.  The government is seeking maximum punishment.

I'm trying the figure out the logistics of conducting 250 hangings.  (the only legal method of capital punishment in Pakistan)  It would have been a lot easier to shoot them during the riot.
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Re: When lawyers attack
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2019, 09:21:37 PM »
I am trying to decide if these lawyers are worse than US lawyers or just more direct. 
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Re: When lawyers attack
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2019, 09:24:25 PM »
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But the final trigger for the violence appears to have been a video posted on social media by a doctor on Tuesday night in which he poked fun at the lawyers.
Sounds like they are pretty hot headed.
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Re: When lawyers attack
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2019, 10:11:24 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on December 12, 2019, 09:21:37 PM
I am trying to decide if these lawyers are worse than US lawyers or just more direct. 

More shootable.
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Re: When lawyers attack
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2019, 06:39:50 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on December 12, 2019, 08:55:22 PM
. . . I'm trying the figure out the logistics of conducting 250 hangings.  (the only legal method of capital punishment in Pakistan)  It would have been a lot easier to shoot them during the riot.
I'm thinking about something on the order of a dry land version of a trot line . . .
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Re: When lawyers attack
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2019, 08:10:26 PM »
They really “fight for you” over there
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Re: When lawyers attack
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