Analogy of Gotham and Colombo (I'm nuts)

I would like you to run this computation through your processors (Provided of course that you have already been to see/watch/enjoy “Dark Knight”. Otherwise the variables go awry and the methodology is faulty.)
Remember the scene, where after the death of Ms. Rachel Dawes, the Joker threatens the people of Gotham to get out by nightfall or “join the game”.
Ok, now imagine that Colombo was Gotham City, and has been terrorized in quite the same Joker like fashion but also heightening the ethnic tensions in the city. Picture now that due to the same threat to the people, they are flooding to the ferries and segregation along ethnic lines takes place as they are boarded onto the two ferries; one with Sinhalese and one with Tamils. Subsequently, Joker tells each boat that he will blow both boats at midnight unless; one boat blows up the other. What’d you think would happen..?


Do not blame me. It’s just a thought. Only a thought.
After all an idle mind is a fool’s paradise.