My Two Cents

Apparently, things can go horribly wrong when people prepare and attempt to serve meatless meals. According to Reuters, the series of unfortunate events described in the following news article took place Sunday in Ahmedabad, India.

A jobless man burned himself to death after his wife refused to serve him meat for dinner, Indian police said Sunday. Sixty-year-old Mithailal Ram Sanjivan doused his body with a flammable liquid and set himself ablaze outside his one-room house in Ahmedabad, the main city of western Gujarat state.

Police said the victim, who had been without a job for years, and his wife, Geeta Sanjivan, 54, had a scuffle over the dinner menu. The wife, who works as a domestic, refused to cook meat, saying they could not afford it. Irritated by this, Sanjivan locked her in the house before setting himself on fire outside.

Lesson learned. I will keep my mouth shut unless I have all the facts.