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Kleptomania Rampant?

by Fayza Haq
V S! DNG the bachelor il a ol a young univer--m student, appeal fug Im in- SSC examination, one came across a Ixild DMC street warning placard, yard-wtde and high with -carle letterings Iwing used as a clothes peg without any qualms.
When questioned about Ilie strange existence of the grotesque road sign the young hash smoker, with in lellectual pretensions, explained that his student group had once got "high" on vodka and whisky. In the delinquent Illng. riding rows of motor cycles, they had just walked off coolly with the atrocious and "loud" piece ol the Dhaka Municipality Item saying Warning. Work In Progress" The student has been keeping the piece of paraphernalia since then as a curio item. to flaunt before his friends and acquaintances 'to sIhiw how unconventional Ills Tel setting group" was.
Another young man boasted recently of how his set of Inends had once coolly walked off with four dozen soft-drink bottles from the cafe of a local cinema without being questioned or stopped by anyone. And later we made a neat profit on the sale of the boules. This was 10 vears ago when we were just out ol school. and did we en joy the lark in that summer holiday' was the blissful ego centric sell-appraisal
A third college student spoke in ecstatic terms of how he and his handful of fun loving friends had oner walked off with bits and pieces of furniture ranging from carved and inlaid tables to cane chairs and chest ol drawers front an expensive hotel. "We told anyone who cared Io question us that we were taking them for re pairs, the young man ex plained with bombast over the feat ol blatant daylight robbery of a place open to the public.
NO MONETARY GAIN
Taking away decorative and expensive muga saucers, plales, sets of spoons and forks from relatively expen sire cafes which later to the upper middle class and serve snakes in the waiting cars parked alongside ihe wayside
eating place. is again a very common phenomenon among tile vmiih. nui gain Fule— nlatncly -in monetary terms and should leel giulix using these articles in ilair own homes, with braggadocio yet il would not be surprising if i he cup from which you are having your tea or the plate from which you are tomorrow helping ydurself to the chicken or egg curry, happens to tx^a lifted item from the many restaurants.
There Is such a brisk trade al the various places of entertainment that perhaps the authorities cannot keep a lab on missfng half a dozen mugs or a couple of small la bies. Similarly, the owners of the cinema houses or restaurants must apparently be minUng millions to be indif-ferenl to the loss of articles like crockery and cutlery, that Ihe "educated youth have no quiet complex about walking off with.
As lor removing passages of Important texts from the foreign libraries for public use. and tearing attractive coloured illustrations for get ting more marks at tutorials or tests, (here In an old cus-
tom ol ibis brand of highway roblxry among students this ranges Irom the school lo the university stage "scholar is inclination. Fines are sup |x>sed lo be imposed and the lx>oks are to be checked, and double-checked, but the stock of books and their contents appear to diminish over the years. Yet no one can point the accusing finger at any particular person.
TEEN-AGERS' DELIGHT
Helping oneself to the forbidden" fruit and fidwers from the parks are the delight of the teenagers and even the younger set. The little ones in shorts, going lo public schools, where their parents do not have to spend so much and where there Is no question of chauffeur driven cars to look out for reports at home" — these rowdy and reckless young thing fling stones at man goes, guavas, papayas and such fruit — even when they are unripe. One is sure that the child is not exactly starving bul is indulging in the unsavoury frivolity merely to pass lime and toe willful, and so appear cunning to his
cotppanions.
As for tlie flowers that are so gallantly presented by the < o eds to the doe-eyed girl of ilieir dream — Jiow many of l hem are ever suspected to be literally picked off from the i ampus branches or the neighbours house-, while the romantic one pours oui quatrains of courtly poetry In praise of his lady love?
Again, the beauty-conscious and fashion-aware youth visits the beauty salons from time to time. College girls have the pretext that their originally straight curls may go out of shape by the evening, when the scheduler! parly Is to be held. So. coolly, they walk off with curlers and pins, avoiding their return, with one lame excuse after another. This matter is reported to stretch on for months with no qualms of conscience.
One Is not naive lo believe that the students of an earlier generation were a set of an gels who knew little besides studying and indulging in approved extra-Curricular activities. Yet the present day batch of students take lo rampant kleptomania, like hogs to slop" and in the same disgusting fashion. Sorely the over-thirteen has more self-esteem and sense of. proportion! Onlooking par ents and guardians too could do their bil to discourage the wild flings of their young ones.