Mob mentality or reaction can be weird and way out of what we may think as logical . Oru cheriya example parayam njangalide natill nadanna sambhavam anu @Babichan or @Krish may remember this . Oru ana which was bought from north india by a saw mill owner was attacked / killed ( cant remember exactly ) by mob because it didn't follow the instructions given by the mahout the reason it didn't understand malayalam , they did beat the animal and all sorts of things was done to it and then they tied it up . I was on the way back from school and saw this group of people shouting throwing stones at this poor creature and to make it even harder it was chained To date i still cant understand why they reacted , its not logical and this is in Muvattupuzha so we cant say its a rural village
So mob mentality is something we can never justify and another one is if you look at that adivasi payyan who was murdered .