I witnessed a crimeFreddy Woo writes, "A group of us once staggered home so insensible with drink that we failed to notice someone being killed and buried in a shallow grave not more than 50 yards away. A crime unsolved to this day."
Have you witnessed a crime and done bugger all about it? Or are you a have-a-go hero?
Whatever. Tell us about it...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 11:53)
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I grew up in South Africa...So I have witnessed a thing or two. Here are a few:
1) Our local shopkeeper had his head blown off minutes before we arrived at the shop.Got there in time to see the ambulance leaving.
2) my local train station was closed due to an ongoing turf war at the taxi rank outside. I heard all the AK47 gunfire from my house and like a stupid kid I got on my bike to go there and check it out. Cue lots of dead people slumped over steering wheels. The area was sealed off so I didn't get close enough to see it in all its glory details, but the news later that evening did an adequate job of showing it all.
3) I witnessed my mate set fire to a building site 'accidentally'. Cue much aggro and a stint in the cells for the evening. On this occasion I was innocent.
4) Our usual route home from school was closed due to an 'earlier shootout'. Swung by on our bikes just in case there was anything worth seeing and spotted a blood soaked blanket from one of the victims and a lot of bullet holes in the wall.
5) Came back to our cars after a night out in Cape Town and of the 6 cars there all but one was broken into. We phoned the police and while we were waiting discovered a case of beer in the boot of my mates car. By the time the cops arrived we were pretty sozzled and blasting out music from my mates car and dancing in the street. They did the mandatory questioning and then told us to wait there while they went and spoke to some people. They drove off and returned about 10 minutes later both wearing sunglasses that looked suspiciously familiar. Turns out they were in fact our glasses that they had managed to retrieve from the kids at the local stray childrens home. By that time we were so wasted that we didn't care anymore and we having a great party in the street. We even managed a group photo with the cops with them wearing our glasses and us completely pissed holding our amstel lagers.
(, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 13:12, 1 reply)
I think thats BScos drinking in public is illegal in SA.
unless it was AAAAAAGGGEESSS ago.
click for a fellow Safa though
(, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 13:21, closed)
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