# Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752 "2019-12-12T13:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/1 "2019-12-12T13:53:19Z")
Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital. > **[Pakistan protest: Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50757383)** > > Three patients died when lawyers attacked a cardiac hospital in Lahore in a dispute with doctors. Lawyer’s guild = violent youth gang? Fuck that. Permanently disbar every last one of them and prosecute the ringleaders for the deaths. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/2 "2019-12-12T13:58:36Z")
People often call lawyers “ambulance chasers” and I always wondered what would happen if they caught one, now I guess we know. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/3 "2019-12-12T14:30:07Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital. > > [Pakistan protest: Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50757383) > > Lawyer’s guild = violent youth gang? Fuck that. > > Permanently disbar every last one of them and prosecute the ringleaders for the deaths. The law (such as it is) should have declared a riot and started shooting. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/4 "2019-12-12T15:16:15Z")
“Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the lawyers” We may have a winner in the “Most Memorable News Story Line of 2019” contest. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/5 "2019-12-12T15:23:58Z")
I would have thought that was an Onion article, complete with a bunch of guys in dark suits getting tear gas shot at them and everything. But it’s apparently a true story. I mean, it would be hysterically funny, if not for the patients dying part. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/6 "2019-12-12T15:45:50Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I would have thought that was an Onion article, complete with a bunch of guys in dark suits getting tear gas shot at them and everything. But it’s apparently a true story. I thought the reporter had accidentally substituted “lawyers” for another word (“activists” or something). But seriously, this is such a shitty thing it makes me feel worse about my profession (on the other side of the world, with no ties to Pakistan other than a shared adoption of common law). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/7 "2019-12-12T15:52:10Z")
I wonder if the word ‘actionable’ means the same there. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/8 "2019-12-12T15:52:43Z")
Is it possible “lawyer” means something else in Urdu? Like “guy who’ll beat you with a stick if you don’t help his mother”? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/9 "2019-12-12T16:05:19Z")
Yeah. Lawyers don’t riot. The sue you over and over till you want to kill yourself. Death by a thousand paper cuts. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/10 "2019-12-12T16:18:34Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Is it possible “lawyer” means something else in Urdu? Like “guy who’ll beat you with a stick if you don’t help his mother”? “I’m a partner in the Gambino Law Family” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/11 "2019-12-12T17:09:35Z")
Now somebody just has to rework the Clash song to be White (collar) Riot. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/12 "2019-12-12T17:15:22Z")
The Court appearance this morning had some rather interesting visuals. [https://twitter.com/sairameharr/status/1205112462300856320](https://twitter.com/sairameharr/status/1205112462300856320) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/13 "2019-12-12T17:17:06Z")
Wow. More surreal than Turkish security chuckleheads [gooning on protesters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiBY_u0vaw) in DC last May. Roving hoardes of nattily-dressed, stick-weilding lawyers: The New Menace.😕 ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/14 "2019-12-12T17:34:29Z")
A friend of mine’s father convinced him as a kid that the Attorney general led an army of attorneys against an army of surgeons led by the surgeon general. Looks like he was right after all, just in the wrong country. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/15 "2019-12-12T17:49:56Z")
They make all the lawyer jokes look true. What’s brown and black and looks good on a lawyer? A Doberman. Why don’t sharks eat lawyers? Professional courtesy. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/16 "2019-12-12T18:27:22Z")
I once heard a joke that went something like this… You are sitting on a park bench next to a pond enjoying your lunch, and suddenly a lawyer and a politician fall into the pond and start drowning. You only have time to save one of them! So what do you do? Do you: A) Finish your lunch and ignore them? Or… B) Go somewhere else to finish your lunch where you’re not disturbed by all the annoying splashing and gurgling sounds? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/17 "2019-12-12T18:51:24Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > The Court appearance this morning had some rather interesting visuals. > [https://twitter.com/sairameharr/status/1205112462300856320](https://twitter.com/sairameharr/status/1205112462300856320) Why do they have bags on their heads? ---
**Author:** ![Deltree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Deltree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deltree)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/18 "2019-12-12T19:18:18Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Why do they have bags on their heads? Would you want anyone to know you’re a lawyer, there? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/19 "2019-12-13T04:24:02Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Why do they have bags on their heads? It’s a choice that everyone has in criminal court appearance. Not all do. The choice lasts only until remand has been made, then sorry everyone gets to see your mug. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752/20 "2019-12-13T05:18:01Z")
The article includes: > [@](#): > > “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. What does this refer to? Seems to me that this sort of march on a hospital is the antithesis of the long march. What are the roots of this? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patients-die-as-lawyers-ransack-lahore-hospital/844752.md?page=2)