I like the idea of bunking work and doing a protest ride :-) Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
-----Original Message----- From: Gerrit van Niekerk <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:25:42 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [DarknDirty] Re: Fwd: FW: Down and Dirty Mountain Bike Race Perhaps we should tackle this the new South-African way: Have a protest ride to the police and hand over a petition; disrupt the traffic in the process, get some TV coverage and make a general nuisance of ourselves. Maybe, just maybe something will be done after that. Hmm.. perhaps we can try the Zuma direct line? On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Nicolai van der Merwe <[email protected]> wrote: > > It sounds like similar method used when they jacked me in January. 3 > criminals, bottle, panga (axe in my case) and knive (piece of timber in my > case). Similar area... Ironically, they caught 2 of the guys that jacked us. > We positively identified them. Wednesday they were back on the street. > Saturday they jacked another 2 riders... They are still on the loose. Police > is not doing a lot, but our justice system is doing even less!! > > I am in Cape Town now for a few month, and here most people ride in a few > areas - Majik Forest, Tokai, Few areas in Stellenbosch, Table mountain, > Koeberg, etc. No incidents that I know off? > > 2 incidents during a race! That is terrible! Getting all stirred up and > angry again... > > Breath in... Breath out... > > >> From: Brendan <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:56 +0200 >> To: DarkAndDirty <[email protected]> >> Subject: [DarknDirty] Re: Fwd: FW: Down and Dirty Mountain Bike Race >> >> >> ok, my 2c worth: >> >> I think the fact that (a) we arent expected, (b) we surprise the >> blokes, and (c) we probably look quite scary at first sight (sorry >> DeeKay) makes us a lot safer than on our regular day rides. >> >> BUT since a lot of these blokes are opportunistic (a broken bottle >> doesn't take much planning) staying together is definitely the trick I >> believe. Particularly on the slower sections (ok, so I don't want to >> give up the mamba). >> >> >> On Sep 9, 10:31 am, "Donald Klopper" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> AMEN BROTHER >>> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
