Will Good Samaritans Shut Shop? (Limerick) Poem by narayana aghalaya

Will Good Samaritans Shut Shop? (Limerick)



WILL GOOD SAMARITANS SHUT SHOP? (limerick)
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don't pick up stranded strangers
of hefty fine there is much danger
when fining cop goes upstairs
God will ask him 'were you fair? '
is law itself a dog in the manger?
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picking up strangers is unlawful.Police will assume one is running an illegal taxi service. Good Samaritans kindly beware

dog in the manger-someone who keeps something that they do not want in order to prevent someone else from getting it
Cambridge Dictionary.
Law is holding stranded people and is obstructing others from helping them.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
In Mumbai it is unlawful to pick up strangers.Police assume an illegal taxi service is being operated and the driver is heavily fined. During recent heavy rains one good samaritan was a victim of this new law, as he, in an act of kindness, picked up some strangers in his car and dropped them to a safer place.
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