PICS: Truck looted and driver killed after rock thrown through windscreen near De Doorns

[ɹǝuuᴉM]

Wouldn't call them people.

Watch out! If comrade Craig & Co discovers your post, you'll be called racist in no time!

 

[ɹǝuuᴉM]

People and houses should be prohibited within a 100 meters of a highway.

In the New South Africa? Never. Live with it.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Watch out! If comrade Craig & Co discovers your post, you'll be called racist in no time!

What if I was to call them the 11th plague, what would he call me then?

 

[Craig_]

Watch out! If comrade Craig & Co discovers your post, you'll be called racist in no time!

Why would I do that? You still butt hurt over a minor tiff we had? My comment is arguably worse than his. I'm not like you, sorry to disappoint.

https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...ndscreen-near-de-doorns.1027532/post-23442862

 

[ɹǝuuᴉM]

What if I was to call them the 11th plague, what would he call me then?

Touch their studio button long enough and you'll soon find out

 

[Tokolotshe]

Them's big words. Probably best to just use a large skull and crossbones to try and out-pirate the pirates.

Quick story, facts based. One year we were planting peas. The seeds where treated to prevent pests eatign them or while they are germinating (poisoned). It came in big hessian bags. A few bags disappeared. Nobody knew who it was. That is until the cops rocked up. People had been poisoned in the nearby homelands, perp was identified. He simply "washed off the pink dust", then sold it knowing full well what it's dangerous.

 

[Tokolotshe]

Wouldn't call them people.

This is a bit like another never ending convo regarding sex vs gender. What does society sees these people as vs what they identify as. The difference is akin to shooting an unrehabitable animal vs life sentence for a human. If it acts like an animal with zero empathy ...

 

[MachoPants]

I tried looking on Google Maps at that stretch of road and I only see one footbridge.

It doesn't seem to be covered (like the ones I'm used to here in Cape Town).

Also, considering that a truck's windscreen is almost perpendicular to the road, and also the fact that the truck wasn't standing still, that took some serious timing from the perpetrators.

Years of practice?

 

[ArmatageShanks]

This is a bit like another never ending convo regarding sex vs gender. What does society sees these people as vs what they identify as. The difference is akin to shooting an unrehabitable animal vs life sentence for a human. If it acts like an animal with zero empathy ...

It is our duty to ensure that rabid animals are killed off and kept from spreading their disease or breeding yes. It is however difficult to justify once the greater good of all animals is taken out of consideration and also if said animal can speak.

 

[Flanders]

Quick story, facts based. One year we were planting peas. The seeds where treated to prevent pests eatign them or while they are germinating (poisoned). It came in big hessian bags. A few bags disappeared. Nobody knew who it was. That is until the cops rocked up. People had been poisoned in the nearby homelands, perp was identified. He simply "washed off the pink dust", then sold it knowing full well what it's dangerous.

Ouch. As long as no fingers were pointed in your direction...

 

[Tokolotshe]

Ouch. As long as no fingers were pointed in your direction...

Luckily not. Initially we had tried finding out who took the seeds. Nobody. Later some of the people who got sick ID'ed the perp selling it to them. It was an open and shut case, plus we had real cops looking into it.

Dude was taken away, charged and found guilty of a stack of charges (also theft), off to jail. He got quite a few years (can't remember how many).

 

[maumau]

I tried looking on Google Maps at that stretch of road and I only see one footbridge.

It doesn't seem to be covered (like the ones I'm used to here in Cape Town).

Also, considering that a truck's windscreen is almost perpendicular to the road, and also the fact that the truck wasn't standing still, that took some serious timing from the perpetrators.

Years we were travelling back from a wedding in Cape town. Fancy car, 4 occupants. My sister and I were in the back of the car leaning forward chatting to my dad who was driving. Out of nowhere a stone/rock the size of a spanspek hit the car just above the left headlight graunching a path in the metal all the way to the windshield where it fell off. None of the four of us saw where it came from. The road dropped away on both sides so it's entirely possible the perpetrator crouched down and was hidden from view when my sister and I looked back because we saw nobody.

My dad being the wise fella he was put foot to the nearest town, Winburg and reported it to the police. They could not have been less interested.

These rock throwers have the instinct and timing of a snake and years of practice - as @smi says.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Years we were travelling back from a wedding in Cape town. Fancy car, 4 occupants. My sister and I were in the back of the car leaning forward chatting to my dad who was driving. Out of nowhere a stone/rock the size of a spanspek hit the car just above the left headlight graunching a path in the metal all the way to the windshield where it fell off. None of the four of us saw where it came from. The road dropped away on both sides so it's entirely possible the perpetrator crouched down and was hidden from view when my sister and I looked back because we saw nobody.

My dad being the wise fella he was put foot to the nearest town, Winburg and reported it to the police. They could not have been less interested.

These rock throwers have the instinct and timing of a snake.

yoh, kak to hear, glad everyone was ok
yup these konts practice and they get better every year

 

[Nanfeishen]

It is our duty to ensure that rabid animals are killed off and kept from spreading their disease or breeding yes. It is however difficult to justify once the greater good of all animals is taken out of consideration and also if said animal can speak.

The ability to speak does not make one intelligent.

 

[jack_spratt]

There are reports that guys are now targetting trucks in the same area.

They have cottoned onto something here.....

Stone a truck, truck stops, loot said truck.

 

[schumi]

Second truck attacked on highway as brick smashes into driver's arm

A second truck driving on a highway was stoned over the weekend, with a brick piercing the windshield and hitting the driver.

SA Zero Waste driver Nkanyiso Cele was driving on the N3 near Pietermaritzburg on Saturday evening when around 10:30pm someone threw a brick from an overhead bridge through his windshield.

The brick hit his left arm, leaving him bloodied.

More at : https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...on-highway-as-brick-smashes-into-drivers-arm/

 

[noxibox]

Wouldn't call them people.

Their behaviour is certainly very human. Uncivilised and savage perhaps, but definitely not unusual for humans.

 

[ɹǝuuᴉM]

2nd Truck? No way. Not in South Africa. This must be fake news, spread by the right wing or similar. They want to portray South Africa in a bad light.

 

[Blue Shirt]

5 suspects have been arrested for the incident and will appear in court on Wednesday:

https://maroelamedia.co.za/nuus/sa-nuus/5-vas-wat-glo-plunder-na-vragmotor-omslaan/

I could not find a link to an English news article.

 

[STS]

There are reports that guys are now targetting trucks in the same area.

They have cottoned onto something here.....

Stone a truck, truck stops, loot said truck.

Stop a truck full of snakes there and leave it overnight near their village