Constable who refused to take a bribe found my stolen car. The thieves are reportedly UJ students
I HAILED a police van at 3am. Constable Mosima of the Brixton SAPS stopped and asked what was wrong.
I told him my car was stolen from outside a club in Melville. He asked me for the registrations number and sent out a police bulletin.
A few seconds later Constable Nxumalo came on the air and told him that he had my car right in front of him and that we could meet him at the Brixton police station.
I have no wife. My son is all grown up. I'm an insomniac who gets easily bored sitting alone in an enclosed space. This leads me to often seek places that open until late to kill time. This club is one such place I use for this purpose because it has pool tables.
But when you suffer from insomnia you often can't tell how really tired you sometimes are until you collapse in a heap and sleep for very long periods without planning to. At least that's what happens to me.
On this night I spoke to a few people at the club, had a few drinks, danced to the music there, sat down alone to rest my legs only to be woken up by a bouncer saying the place was closing. Disoriented, it took me a while to work out where I was and when or how I had fallen asleep! My car keys were gone. I stepped outside. My car was missing. I thought of calling a taxi and discovered that my cellphone was nowhere to be found either. Soon after that I stopped the police van.
On the other side of town, Constables Nxumalo and Funani had just stopped a car for driving with lights off. On being approached, the driver said it was his father's car, that he just forgot about the lights and, well, could he offer Constable Nxumalo a bribe and be left to head home as his father was waiting.
Constable Nxumalo refused to take the bribe. Instead, he told the young man and his two passengers, another two young men, to go with him to the police station. That's when the police bulletin came through. The car they had just stopped was my stolen vehicle.
The three young thieves are in their 20s. Apparently they are students at the University of Johannesburg.
I, on the other hand, am thoroughly embarrassed. I can't believe I fell asleep in a club.
If that hadn't happened I would not have been pick-pocketed. My car would not have been stolen.
What's the best cure for insomnia, anyone? A spouse?
Embarrassed by losing my car in a club
Constable who refused to take a bribe found my stolen car. The thieves are reportedly UJ students
I HAILED a police van at 3am. Constable Mosima of the Brixton SAPS stopped and asked what was wrong.
I told him my car was stolen from outside a club in Melville. He asked me for the registrations number and sent out a police bulletin.
A few seconds later Constable Nxumalo came on the air and told him that he had my car right in front of him and that we could meet him at the Brixton police station.
I have no wife. My son is all grown up. I'm an insomniac who gets easily bored sitting alone in an enclosed space. This leads me to often seek places that open until late to kill time. This club is one such place I use for this purpose because it has pool tables.
But when you suffer from insomnia you often can't tell how really tired you sometimes are until you collapse in a heap and sleep for very long periods without planning to. At least that's what happens to me.
On this night I spoke to a few people at the club, had a few drinks, danced to the music there, sat down alone to rest my legs only to be woken up by a bouncer saying the place was closing. Disoriented, it took me a while to work out where I was and when or how I had fallen asleep! My car keys were gone. I stepped outside. My car was missing. I thought of calling a taxi and discovered that my cellphone was nowhere to be found either. Soon after that I stopped the police van.
On the other side of town, Constables Nxumalo and Funani had just stopped a car for driving with lights off. On being approached, the driver said it was his father's car, that he just forgot about the lights and, well, could he offer Constable Nxumalo a bribe and be left to head home as his father was waiting.
Constable Nxumalo refused to take the bribe. Instead, he told the young man and his two passengers, another two young men, to go with him to the police station. That's when the police bulletin came through. The car they had just stopped was my stolen vehicle.
The three young thieves are in their 20s. Apparently they are students at the University of Johannesburg.
I, on the other hand, am thoroughly embarrassed. I can't believe I fell asleep in a club.
If that hadn't happened I would not have been pick-pocketed. My car would not have been stolen.
What's the best cure for insomnia, anyone? A spouse?
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