Saturday, October 28, 2006

a stolen car in s-africa...


so the last guests want to leave the party, but the car was gone... it was parked in the brightest spot of the whole street - and we live in one of the safest areas in this town.
what followed was some very african experiences on how police in sa is dealing with priorities: "esch, you have a problem! *hang up call* --> next call: "you have a problem! we have lots to do! lots of dead bodies!"
however, since we needed a case number for the insurance, we went to the next police station (people with feet on tables and about 10 police cars parked outside). after the not so bright guy managed to fill in his 4 forms (took an hour) they of course weren´t able to issue a simple case number ("too much to do")
summary: it took 3 phonecalls to the famous 10111 hotline (police emergency hotline), the incident was reported at 1:30 in the night, it took them until the next morning until finally 2 policemen found their way to us... thanks god we have private security!
read the sign in the background of the picture... funny that there was no photograph on it...

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