Death of a 12 year old child – does this make sense to you?
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Richard Catto 3,116 views
How much sense does this make to you?
You’re a mom with kids in your car (including your own) on the way to school and you stop off to pick up another kid. Whilst sitting outside in your car, a suspicious man comes out of the house and ignores your questions as to who he is and then goes back into the house you are waiting outside.
So you call Chubb Security (and only them, not also the police). Then you wait outside the house for security to arrive, instead of driving off to a safe distance. Then when security arrives, the criminals inside the house open fire on the security guards and one of your daughters inside your car is hit and killed.
Does it make sense to hang around in a potential battle zone with or without kids?
This is what happened on Tuesday, February 12 2008 to Emily Williams, a 12 year old grade 7 pupil, whose mother did not think to get clear of the area. Only after the gun battle erupted and after her daughter had been struck did she think it was now a good time to drive off, vainly trying to reach medical aid in time to save her daughter.
That’s like standing on the beach watching the tsunami waves rolling in, calling for help and only thinking of flight once the waves are already crashing over your head.
Surely it makes sense to run for high ground first and then call for help?
What was that mother thinking? Am I being insensitive for second guessing a woman who has just lost one of her daughters to crime?
Obviously, I am saddened by the loss to violent crime of yet another young person, but reading the account on iAfrica it just struck me how irrationally that mother behaved.
What do you think about this?
Tags: Chubb security, Crime, Emily Williams, SAPS, Trinity House Preparatory School
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The brutal South African Police Services and why few feel comfortable approaching them for help
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Richard Catto 3,789 views
So the "hero" of an attempted hijacking in Gauteng, WHITE police reservist, Captain Marc Ishlove, who shot dead two alleged hijackers is also a racist thug.
Right after he had shot and killed two alleged hijackers, he then pounced on an unsuspecting BLACK motorist (first name Fungai) and arrested him. For what? For the crime of being BLACK, that’s what.
Not only that, but Fungai’s 9 year old daughter was detained by police and interrogated for hours for no good reason.
In exasperation, she retorted to her police victimisers, "Why are you asking me these ridiculous questions!?"
A nine-year-old child was held and questioned at the Fairland police station for hours after her father was wrongfully detained following a shootout in which two hijackers were killed.
Suddenly the reservist comes up to me, pointing his gun and ordering me out the car.
"He said to me ‘Get out the car or you will end up like those other two guys’," said Fungai.
What a fucking hero you are Ishlove. You’re a damned racist disgrace, that’s what you are!
In other news, a group of unsuspecting municipal workers almost landed themselves in serious trouble when they discovered a dicarded cache of anti-aircraft ammunition that had been thrown into the drainage system they were working on.
Police have appealed to people with illegal or unwanted ammunition to instead hand it over to the SAPS bomb squad instead of throwing it away themselves.
My response to that is, "Yeah, right!"
Like people are going to risk arrest doing that? Despite your assurances (actually, I don’t see any assurances), I estimate the chances of being arrested by SAPS’ personnel as high, should anyone wish to hand in illegal ammunition.
It’s time for a complete white wash of the South African Police Services. Perhaps if we can get rid of all the racist neanderthals in the SAPS, ordinary South Africans will actually regard the Police as people that are approachable.
You’re supposed to SERVE US, not arrest us, you bastards!
Tags: Marc Ishlove, Racism, SAPS, unexploded ammunition
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