Schoolboy rugby players robbed: Report

[LazyLion]

A rugby match at Kings Park had an unhappy end for a group of schoolboys who returned to their bus to find that all 50 bags belonging to the boys had been stolen, the Mercury newspaper reported on Monday.

According to the newspaper the thieves pretended to be pupils of Hillcrest High School and persuaded the bus driver to give them the keys to the locked bus so they could get their bags.

When the pupils returned to the bus their bags were gone.

"It must have been fairly early because our sports administrator said after the first game, some of the pupils wanted things from the bus, but by then the robbery had already taken place," Lindsay Gray, the school's marketing manager, told the newspaper.

"I do not believe that the bus driver was in attendance at the time. He would not have stood there watching as all 50 bags came off the bus and were loaded into a waiting vehicle," she said.

The school is an e-learning institution, so the pupils, mostly in Grade 11, all had tablets and cellphones in their bags.

Gray said police would not allow the school to open a case as it had to be opened by the bus company.

The company had yet to do so at the time of going to print.


Source : Sapa /js/jk/jje
Date : 03 Nov 2014 08:46

 

[ToxicBunny]

Really?

This does not paint a good picture of the bus company really..

The only person who should have been able to get onto the bus other than the bus driver during the time they were on site is the teacher.

 

[grok]

Just preparing those kids for adult life where their tax money will be stolen in exactly the same way by the ANC.

Harden up boys, lesson learned = trust no one, not even government.

 

[grok]

Just preparing those kids for adult life where their tax money will be stolen in exactly the same way by the ANC.

Harden up boys, lesson learned = trust no one, not even government.

 

[Electric]

Bus driver was involved most likely.

 

[Hemi300c]

Gray said police would not allow the school to open a case as it had to be opened by the bus company.

And this is why we have criminals getting away with things. Totally wrong and every student has the right to open a case in this instance.

 

[ToxicBunny]

And this is why we have criminals getting away with things. Totally wrong and every student has the right to open a case in this instance.

Can't have that..

50 cases of theft of a bag doesn't look as good as 1 case of theft of 50 bags in the stats at the end of the year.

 

[Albereth]

Really?

This does not paint a good picture of the bus company really..

The only person who should have been able to get onto the bus other than the bus driver during the time they were on site is the teacher.

Or the police. Why do people take crap from cops about whether they can report a crime or not?

 

[maumau]

Words fail me :-(

Those poor children and those poor families.

 

[cpu.]

It is my understanding that to get robbed, you (victim/s) need to be present. Otherwise it's plain theft. ??

 

[Zenbaas]

And this is why we have criminals getting away with things. Totally wrong and every student has the right to open a case in this instance.

Thats BS. Every pupil should have the right to open a case of theft.

 

[satanboy]

Thats BS. Every pupil should have the right to open a case of theft.

exactly

 

[Picard]

It's standard policy at my school. If you leave the bus, you take your **** with you.

We dump it in a central and visible location with someone always there. Yes, it's a hassle and most often very impractical, but I would like to believe that we have prevented some instances where the same situation that befell these boys might have befallen my kids.