At the time of writing this, an eight-year-old girl is fighting for her life in the trauma ward after a freak incident in which a frying pan fell from a 22-storey building and cracked her head.

Shopkeepers rushed to help her, and it was heartening to see the selflessness and the alacrity with which they acted. In this horrific incident, that was the only silver lining. This incident shows us that people unthinkingly and shockingly hurl things from their windows, without a care about who is below. From the severity of the injury, doctors estimate that the pan must have fallen from at least 10 storeys up. From that height, a falling pan is nothing short of a lethal missile, and the careless culprit must be caught and booked.