Interview with a former Hijacker

[AntiThesis]

Anyone catch this?

I know a good few people who've been hijacked and I couldn't help but think of them when this lot came out. Although the guy actually seems fairly smart it makes me very, very sad.

For the full transcript of the story go here.

 

[fivelza]

What fascinated me most was the perception (I had) that these hijackings were taken place to put food on hungry folk's plate...quite the contrary, these guys were out partying with their loot and blowing it....not that it changes what trauma people experience going through a hijacking.

 

[ic]

What fascinated me most was the perception (I had) that these hijackings were taken place to put food on hungry folk's plate...quite the contrary, these guys were out partying with their loot and blowing it....not that it changes what trauma people experience going through a hijacking.

Saw that, was not at all surprised by the 'boogying' [I think that was the word used] & prostitutes [why else hotel rooms?].

How many hijackers [violent & heartless by definition] actually go home to families and put food on the table...

 

[Angelo]

Saw that, was not at all surprised by the 'boogying' [I think that was the word used] & prostitutes [why else hotel rooms?].

How many hijackers [violent & heartless by definition] actually go home to families and put food on the table...

Would you have sympathised if theye were "putting food on the table"?

 

[jontyB]

Would you have sympathised if theye were "putting food on the table"?

*sigh*

1. Prominent leaders in this country list abject poverty as the reason for the high crime rate in this country.
2. This episode of Carte Blanche clearly nullifies the argument contained in (1) above.

WTF should there be sympathy for a low life thug?

 

[ic]

Saw that, was not at all surprised by the 'boogying' [I think that was the word used] & prostitutes [why else hotel rooms?].

How many hijackers [violent & heartless by definition] actually go home to families and put food on the table...

Would you have sympathised if theye were "putting food on the table"?

Why do you ask? - Am I obliged to sympathise with a self confessed murderer? - Do you suggest that it is reasonable and just that a person's life is worth less than a loaf of bread?

 

[kingrob]

I've been hijacked before and if I had a pistol or AK-47 with me, I would've shot all of them - dead.

I don't give a flying faak if it is 'to put bread on the table', NO-ONE has the right to point a loaded gun in another human being's face.

*Angelo, son, have you been hi-jacked before?

 

[Riq]

whether it's for bread on the table or armani shoes, it doesn't make a difference. It is wrong.

As for Jabu complaining that the country isn't doing much for them? Guess what! The country is improving. Slowly but surely. Unfortunately not fast enough to take people off the streets. I have alot of faith in this country. Unfortunately ignorance and greed is a bad combination.

 

[zesto]

whether it's for bread on the table or armani shoes, it doesn't make a difference. It is wrong.

That's the crux of the matter, does not matter what it is for, it is wrong!
Alot of people suffer, go through hard times etc. but they don't turn to crime!
I think it is a poor excuse, pardon the pun.

I watched the insert, thought it was pretty chilling.
I also realised that the crime issue in this country will not be getting
any better any time soon. It's too deep rooted in the communities, starting with the children of this country.

What the former hijacker was saying about people buying stolen goods and promoting crime is so true and i have seen this for myself.
From the richest to the poorest, alot of people don't see anything wrong with
buying something they know is stolen, not even thinking about who died for that object they are going to enjoy.

I Thank The Lord i have never been hijacked, i don't think i would like to wait around until i am though.

Not to be pessimistic or anything but i think what he said about 2010 and the crime that will take place then, is spot on with what will actually happen.
Who would know better than the guys on the "front line" actually committing these crimes.

 

[Angelo]

Why do you ask? - Am I obliged to sympathise with a self confessed murderer? - Do you suggest that it is reasonable and just that a person's life is worth less than a loaf of bread?

You seemed to be condemning what the loot was being used for rather than the act itself, but I get you position after your other post.

 

[icyrus]

*sigh*

1. Prominent leaders in this country list abject poverty as the reason for the high crime rate in this country.

Angelo himself believes this point to be true.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

This Carte Blanche clip is very good as it shows that, despite common thought, these savages do it to live the high life like their gang dealers. Putting food on the table? Ha! They go for Armani shoes, Levi jeans and Nike tops. A typical African way of thinking isn't it?

 

[AntiThesis]

I don't think that's a particularly valid statement. I'd prefer to think of it as typically human thinking.

 

[ic]

Why do you ask? - Am I obliged to sympathise with a self confessed murderer? - Do you suggest that it is reasonable and just that a person's life is worth less than a loaf of bread?

You seemed to be condemning what the loot was being used for rather than the act itself, but I get you position after your other post.

Ahhh, you mean the conclusion I drew about the 'ladies' actually being prostitutes when combined with the hotels that Jabu mentioned? - that was an incidental conclusion, but in no way a justification [or empathication] for committing murder even if it had resulted in a family being fed...

This Carte Blanche clip is very good as it shows that, despite common thought, these savages do it to live the high life like their gang dealers. Putting food on the table? Ha! They go for Armani shoes, Levi jeans and Nike tops. A typical African way of thinking isn't it?

I don't think that's a particularly valid statement. I'd prefer to think of it as typically human thinking.

Well Jabu did say that hijackers compete with one another in terms of clothing and status symbols, and Jabu specifically stated that hijackers do not compete for hijacking turf or territory...

 

[AntiThesis]

I meant more specifically the "A typical African way of thinking"

I generally distrust all humans and know they all have quite a huge capacity for evil.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Well I don't think people in other countries hijack to earn status - remember in Western European & Nordic countries there's a general sense of 'trust'. One of my friends went to Finland and saw a boot in February in snow...when she left in July it was still there.

And look what happens when I search for hijack on Google.com : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-12,GGGL:en&q=Hijacking+&btnG=Search

 

[Syndyre]

Been to Finland a couple of times and there's virtually no crime, there's not even access control to most of the public transport, its based on the trust that if you need to buy a ticket you will. The major crime problem there is loud drunk people.

I'm sick of hearing this "there are areas everywhere in the world where crime is bad" etc. people need to realise that crime is out of control here and scum like this hijacker are directly to blame.

Unlike many desperate hijackers, Jabu had a bursary for a B.Com, and a promising career lay ahead. But the glamorous lifestyle and the respect shown to successful car thieves lured him into a life of crime.

Yet he complains about what the country does for him, what more does he want?

 

[Farquaon]

I watched COPS in Reality TV and Helsinki Finland was always on there!!

 

[Syndyre]

True, watched it too but it was stupid stuff, not multiple murders like we have here.

 

[4nT1_8unNy]

Wow R1000 is so little to risk your life.