5 Year Old Policeman

[ls317]

At a time when most children prepare to go to school, Saurabh Nagvanshi is off to the office.
Saurabh works at a police station in Raipur, the capital of India's central state of Chhattisgarh. He is five years old.
He is part of an Indian system that allows a family member to take the post of a government employee who dies while in service.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4073204.stm

[lenidog]

1. That is possibly one of the strangest things that is actually real

that I have ever read.

[noamnety]

2. It's a good read

I couldn't help thinking of bush though as I read it.

[Neerav B. Trivedi]

3. I AM INDAIN, BUT WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?

My heritage is from India, as is my anscestory.


BUT WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?????????????

[noamnety]

4. Was that supposed to be a reply to me?

or to the original post?

[Neerav B. Trivedi]

5. Both, as I cannot believe what I am reading!!!!!

Both. I can't believe what I am hearing back home (well, my second home anyways).

[noamnety]

6. I hope I didn't offend you

I was just thinking it was rather like Bush, inheriting his father's job, not being competent to do it, having hours off to go play while the real people do the work.

I didn't mean to make light of the situation there at all, though.


(also, welcome to DU!)