Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Worst Joint Ever - 6 dead and counting

This must qualify as the worst joint ever - in the history of man.

The story goes like this. Two men are assaulted at a shebeen (an unlicensed drinking hole - for the unitiated) and run to find two policemen. The cops go to the shebeen, but the perpetrators were not there. The police then decided to raid the shebeen searching for "illegal drugs". The police arrested a man for dagga (cannabis) and while taking him to the van the crowd attacks the police and kills them. The police arrested 9 people yesterday and then tracked down another 4 people apparently involved and shot them... dead, which makes taking statements kind of difficult. (Full story on IOL)

The Kwazulu Natal police are somewhat trigger happy, having shot and killed more than 125 people in the last two years. (No wonder we are number 1 on this list!)

Two policemen go into an UNLICENCED drinking hole and haul out the one guy who has a joint on him. It's incredible that the two policemen can walk past a wall of beer that is not supposed to be there and pick on the guy with the joint. They had no good reason to do a drug raid, nor did they have a warrant. Then the DRUNK crowd turns on them and kills them. The only silver lining in all this is that it wasn't cannabis which killed the police, but ALCOHOL.

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