Statistics for the month of fasting make some points.  "According to Dr. Fahd Abdul Jabbar, a second-year surgical resident of orthopedics at King Fahd General Hospital, Ramadan is a high season for the ER. The doctor said that fights, too, seem to bring bleeding patients to the ER, especially before the iftar when there’s a mad rush to pick up traditional fast-breaking items, like sambousas and ful, and to get home before sunset." (source.)  The other day I made the mistake of going out for bread right before sunset, and saw 2 car accidents, a guy pulled over for speeding, and nearly got run off the road by 2 cars and a bus, all in the span of 5km.  

The other very oxymoronic statistic is that grocery stores and supermarkets sell incredible amounts of food during the month of fasting.  We personally have taken to stockpiling before Ramadan begins because it's nearly impossible to find meat and chicken during the month as people prepare nightly feasts on the scale of thanksgiving dinner.  One man said of Ramadan "You're supposed to exercise abstinence, and the opposite happens," he complained. "Ramadan has become a month where people exercise gluttony."

It's a common human problem that traditions lose their meaning and we lose track of what they were supposed to represent.  For Christians, Christmas and Easter are overrun with ads and gift buying just like Ramadan for Muslims. Traffic and drunk driving are big issues during the Western holidays.  Why is it that the worst in us comes out in what's supposed to be the best time of the year?  

Man is absolutely incapable of pleasing God with works or deeds.  Our pitiful attempts of spirituality (Muslim or Christian) during holidays don't impress God.  He doesn't want our works, he wants our hearts.  In all our efforts at good works, we actually dig ourselves into deeper holes. Statistics just prove the point.