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| 2006-12-19 |
| Whatever... Thieves break into police station SMART!! JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thieves broke into a busy Johannesburg police station, helped themselves to liquor and started a fire in the commissioner's office, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Well it wasn't THAT busy was it? Or was it Beeld said not even the electronic security doors in front of Commissioner Simon Mpembe's office in Johannesburg central police station could stop the burglars from lifting his "treasured golden teaspoons." WHAAAAAAT??? Aside from starting a fire on Mpembe's wooden floor, they also took sweets from his secretary's office and two cellphones were stolen, the newspaper said. Try that in my Manhattan precinct and see what happens... Police spokesman Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said he had no information that the burglars set the commissioner's floor on fire and helped themselves to liquor but confirmed they broke into the canteen. "I vill say noting!" "They took food from the canteen for people who are waiting trial. They took two mobile telephones from the office of the commissioner's secretary," he said. 8675-309!!!! South Africa is battling one of the highest crime rates in the world and opposition groups and the media have accused the government of failing to curb violence, including rampant murder and rape and car hijackings. And knuckle-heads breaking into police stations... Incidents such as the break-in are likely to fuel concerns that the underpaid and out-gunned police force may not be up to the job of helping the government convince the world South Africa is a safe place before the 2010 World Cup. Ya think? |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #5 the underpaid and out-gunned police force and understaffed and undisciplined and on the take and relatively devoid of authority... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2006-12-19 20:44 |
| #4 bring back appairitait |
| Posted by: Sninelet Phoque2414 2006-12-19 19:18 |
| #3 Anybody consider that the cops may be also be the robbers? Although I'm sure the Jo'burg PD is a paragon of integrity... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-12-19 13:22 |
| #2 So who's the idiots? The thieves who got away with robbing a police station or the cops that got robbed???? LOL |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-12-19 13:19 |
| #1 Technically, the idiots here are not the thieves, who had a fine day by their own standards (booze and free stuff), but the local cops who seem just as clueless and inept as the best of them (thus explaining in part the crime stats and the abyssally low conviction rate, around 2-3%). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-19 12:47 |