APoc184
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Hahaha. I sentence Ook to one braai with the "kidnapped" person!
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'Kidnapped' man found at braai
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Hahaha. I sentence Ook to one braai with the "kidnapped" person!
LithIX
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Just spoke to a friend in PE, which confirmed he's still in custody, taken to PE from Harties yesterday.
Gawd dawmn,
Been joking with my sister the other day that we should write some script for a soapie about all the bizarre shiz thats been happening in our family for the past 20 years. Nobody would believe it, hahaha.
Oh well
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Gawd dawmn,
Been joking with my sister the other day that we should write some script for a soapie about all the bizarre shiz thats been happening in our family for the past 20 years. Nobody would believe it, hahaha.
Oh well
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Venomous
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maybe this is a lesson he needs to learn to ''change his ways''..
LithIX
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Not likely. Sorry to say: I fear it will go downhill from here. None of the family want to get involved. This time he's on his own it seems.
I feel sad in a way, but like I told my wife: "you allways have a choice, no matter how bad life treats you!" some peeps just keep on taking the retarded ones... All the time.
/sigh.
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MickeyD
RIP
Report from The Herald today (electronic version - cannot link source)
A BUDDING Port Elizabeth entrepreneur who staged his own kidnapping to escape the wrath of investors allegedly duped out of R9-million in a pyramid scheme, appeared in the Port Elizabeth Magistrates’ Court yesterday on charges of fraud.
Giel Mans, of Charlo, was arrested by police while partying with friends at Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province on Christmas Eve.
The arrest came two weeks after his wife had called the police, claiming Mans had been kidnapped and the kidnappers were demanding a R5-million ransom.
The fraud charge relates to Mans’s alleged pyramid scheme, but further charges are expected to be added next week when he applies for bail.
Among these would be a charge of defeating the ends of justice, police spokesman Captain Stanley Jarvis said.
This relates to Mans’s involvement in his fake kidnapping.
Jarvis said it had been innovative thinking which led investigators to a relaxed Mans, who was arrested with a drink in his hand at a Christmas Eve braai with friends.
Not content with simply tracking Mans’s cellphone, police also got in touch with his friends on Facebook, and they led them straight to him.
“It would appear that at some stage the invested money was spent. Investors then started to ask Mans questions and he was unable to provide details of what had happened to their returns,” Jarvis said.
Mans then allegedly came up with the kidnapping ploy.
He left Port Elizabeth for Johannesburg on December 12. His phone was switched off and he failed to contact his wife.
The next day, however, Mans’s wife claimed, she had received a call from “unknown individuals” who purported to be kidnappers, Jarvis said. She claimed they had demanded a ransom of R5-million.
She reported a case of kidnapping at the Humewood police station and the case was assigned to two officers from the Organised Crime Unit.
During the investigation, the officers discovered Mans had a second phone which he had used to speak to his wife and the alleged kidnappers for 15 minutes on December 14.
“By using the latest in technology, such as Facebook, the investigators got in touch with Mans’s friends on Facebook,” Jarvis said.
“They told the officers he was at the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West. He was at a braai with a drink in his hand when he was arrested.”
The case was postponed for a formal bail application.
Mans and his lawyer, Louis Erasmus, were warned by the court not to make contact with investors who would be witnesses in the case.
A BUDDING Port Elizabeth entrepreneur who staged his own kidnapping to escape the wrath of investors allegedly duped out of R9-million in a pyramid scheme, appeared in the Port Elizabeth Magistrates’ Court yesterday on charges of fraud.
Giel Mans, of Charlo, was arrested by police while partying with friends at Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province on Christmas Eve.
The arrest came two weeks after his wife had called the police, claiming Mans had been kidnapped and the kidnappers were demanding a R5-million ransom.
The fraud charge relates to Mans’s alleged pyramid scheme, but further charges are expected to be added next week when he applies for bail.
Among these would be a charge of defeating the ends of justice, police spokesman Captain Stanley Jarvis said.
This relates to Mans’s involvement in his fake kidnapping.
Jarvis said it had been innovative thinking which led investigators to a relaxed Mans, who was arrested with a drink in his hand at a Christmas Eve braai with friends.
Not content with simply tracking Mans’s cellphone, police also got in touch with his friends on Facebook, and they led them straight to him.
“It would appear that at some stage the invested money was spent. Investors then started to ask Mans questions and he was unable to provide details of what had happened to their returns,” Jarvis said.
Mans then allegedly came up with the kidnapping ploy.
He left Port Elizabeth for Johannesburg on December 12. His phone was switched off and he failed to contact his wife.
The next day, however, Mans’s wife claimed, she had received a call from “unknown individuals” who purported to be kidnappers, Jarvis said. She claimed they had demanded a ransom of R5-million.
She reported a case of kidnapping at the Humewood police station and the case was assigned to two officers from the Organised Crime Unit.
During the investigation, the officers discovered Mans had a second phone which he had used to speak to his wife and the alleged kidnappers for 15 minutes on December 14.
“By using the latest in technology, such as Facebook, the investigators got in touch with Mans’s friends on Facebook,” Jarvis said.
“They told the officers he was at the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West. He was at a braai with a drink in his hand when he was arrested.”
The case was postponed for a formal bail application.
Mans and his lawyer, Louis Erasmus, were warned by the court not to make contact with investors who would be witnesses in the case.
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Can't help but laugh at that but fact is it's true. I know a tabloid journalist and FB is their primary tool.
APoc184
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So the wife was in on the deal?
MickeyD
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Looks like it. Dumb & Dumber ...
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The_Unbeliever
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LithIX is a "he" tyvm. I knew I was good looking, and my moobs might fit into a 34AAA, but I'm still a boy
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