Here in Tornesch, in North Germany, we were talking with our friends Jens and Regina about the riots in London and they told us about the situation in Hamburg, only half an hour drive away from here, where each week several cars are burning in the night and the police don’t find the arsonists. This has been going on for years now but it has become much worse in the last months.
We read some more about the burning of cars and got to know that in this year about 200 cars were burnt in Hamburg. They were simply parked at the side of the road or on parking lots. Someone put one car on fire and the fire easily spread to the surrounding cars, destroying several cars completely before the police and fire brigade arrived at the spot.
It all started as a political signal some years ago, when the only cars that were burnt were Mercedes, BMW and Porsche cars that belonged to directors and managers of big companies. It was seen as action of left-wing radicals and some were even arrested and trialed for those crimes. It changed however and now it is not only expensive cars that burn but every kind of car. The car of every common man can be the one they choose. It seems that now some people have found fun in destroying cars without wanting to send any message. They just want to destroy.
I was told it is not difficult, you would just need a charcoal lighter and place it close to the car, so that the wheel can burn. You have time to walk away until the car actually burns and this is how it is so difficult for the police to find the culprits. They are long gone when the police is alarmed. In this way Hamburg has seen about 200 cars burn only in this year!
Again I want to say that the wrong thing became fun for people. They started enjoying destroying, they go out for the kick of excitement and like it to read in newspaper the next day that five cars burnt completely because of them. How come people have fun in damaging and destroying? It is not only the burning of cars, it can be seen in so many areas. People don’t enjoy creating but destroying. Open your eyes and see how entertainment is mainly made by presenting violence. Look at TV-shows or movies, listen to the radio and the aggressive music played there, read books and look at what the plots are about. There is so much violence and aggression but the creativity, the creating of something new is not fun. It is simply not interesting.
Wouldn’t it be nice if people started being interested in creating love? In finding new ways of dealing with problems peacefully instead of putting their energy in destruction and hate? Instead the whole world focuses on violence, hate, bad feelings and destruction. Let’s not go on in this way but teach children and our surrounding, as well as ourselves, that it is better to create something instead of destroying something. It is better to be in love than in hate. Take this into reality and into your everyday life. You won’t be able to change the world but you can change your world.
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I absolutely don’t understand what is the fun in burning a car. It has been happening in Paris out of protest, it has happened in London out of protest but I also read that in Hamburg it is happening simply because of fun. Where is the fun in this destruction?