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| Scooter Rider says: Always imitate a tree when there are trained police dogs about. The worst that can happen is you'll get peed on. Run, and you could get your scalp ripped off, as shown in this training photo. |
A commotion in the park yesterday reminded me why it's always better to imitate a tree when there are trained police dogs about.
The worst that can happen is you'll get peed on.
Run, and you could get your scalp ripped off.
When I stopped the electric Wispa 3000, this was the report I filed to South Africa's oldest paper.(Because scooter riders can.)
FAST responses and good sniffing from the Pietermaritzburg K9 Unit
yesterday saw a man arrested in record time at the Claremont Conservancy.
Moments before, the man had grabbed the handbag of Ivy Zondi, who
was walking home from work along Tanner Street.
“He throttled me and beat me with his fists,” the still-rattled
Zondi told The Witness before being taken to the police station
to identify her assailant. Her neck was bleeding from a small gash, cut when the
man ripped her handbag from her.
Steve Nicklin (50) and his son Reece (17) had heard her screams as
she tried to fight the man off and rushed over the road to help.
They saw the man disappear with Zondi’s handbag down the overgrown
slope of the conservancy.
Nicklin ran back to his house to call the police as Reece watched
for movement in the thick bush.
The police arrived in seven minutes and called the K9 unit to sniff
out the suspect.
A group of residents and workers on Tanner street quickly gathered
to watch the mini drama unfold.
“They got him!” they ululated as faint screams from the bushes
indicated the dog’s teeth had found the man. The K9 officers arrested the man
some 500 metres from where he had dropped Zondi’s bag.
Mpume Mafuleka, Nora Ngcobo and Beauty Cele said they were very
happy that the dog unit had caught the “tsotsi” because they walked down the
same road as Zondi and would now feel a little safer when passing the park.
Reece said there had been three or four break-ins on Tanner Street
this year. He was very impressed with the alacrity of the police response. “In
the past, we have had to wait up to two hours,” he said.
(First published in The Witness under "Arrest of Tanner Street tsotsi make ladies
happy")
