WHAT HAVE YOU GOT......?

A delightful, drizzly, dripping-wet day it is...the rain held off right until I arrived home and had staggered down the stairs laden with groceries...most fortunate.

I've been giving more thought to der Kommissars speech the other night and alas, have come to the conclusion that my worst fears are realised. All the monitoring devices being installed by the Municipality, Telkom, Eskom and the Law do not appear to be in any way beneficial to your average tax/rate paying, law abiding citizen.

I had hoped that with these devices now set up to watch the streets, bug your phone and monitor your PC. (you dont Really think this just applies to me? hahahahaha...) crime would pretty much be eradicated. NOT!!

der Kommissar all but said we are still pretty much on our own. He once again pushed the suggestion of a bicycle patrol and then went on to discuss having a Quad bike patrol. Damaging as these quads are to the environment, it would certainly be the answer to patrolling our valley boundaries. The Chubb bicycle patrol guards that did a test run down here last year said there was no way they would venture into the valley whereas the quad bikes could easily stay out of trouble.....*sigh...

Just a dream of course, as I doubt more than a handful of residents would be prepared to pay for such a service.

Residents have been literally bled dry by all the security measures they have had to instal and still the crooks keep coming...

I have to smile at how utterly unrealistic and yet wildly enthusiastic this quad bike idea was.

der Kommissar has the details of every resident down this end, at his fingertips, and is fully aware of their financial situation *smiles...

Well intentioned as he may be, you should remember that this is a man who has his own helicopter and access to two extremely high-tech vehicles to boot. Of course I have no idea of his personal wealth but would guess that should he retire tomorrow, he and his children's children could live out their lives without financial worries of any kind..

In our case, you cannot get blood from a stone and I would suggest the same applies to the Arendse family, the Treasurer, Sue the Book, Iris and my neighbours at No. 10. So thats 6 houses that can't afford a further financial burden...leaving you with the likes of Fred the Accountant and our own Lord & Master Controller, Carol and her Earl...eh...the list goes on.... would these fine Pillars of the Community seriously fork out any of their hard-earned (bwaahaaaa)cash on a scheme of this nature? Very unlikely....

So no - its back to the drawing board and in spite of the intensive monitoring, its every man for himself, as the corrupt get richer and the honest scramble to hang on to what little the crooks leave them.

Of course a Quad bike squad would possibly give young Baron a legitimate job and he could save on his cellphone deals and do drive-by deliveries instead? *laughing.....

Oh no - wait! he's busy doing a course in IT? *guesses a fine black stetson would be a suitable graduation gift......

It is indeed true that you get what you deserve. Me for daring to retaliate however clownishly to a Game initiated by a bunch of truly Rotten Apples (as der Kommissar calls them heheh), with a Drug Dealer as its Head, and Joe Soap for adopting the cowardly stay out of it position.

Though the situation appears hopeless, capitulation is not on my itinerary, so go suck on that one as they say.... *chuckles...

PS: You recognized the laboured drawings I made for you this morning in Paint Bali dear? You begin to understand why I am so proud of my photo album? Ah yes....

Curious that you order the 2 upstairs orange aerial lights over at the Senior Boys Hostel to be left off since I showed them to you the other day? What on earth difference does it make if I have pics of them or not? *puzzled....

And I am totally comfortable with being auto-smacked once again each time I enter the efnet channel heheh...

peace...

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Thursday 29th March 2007, at 3.56pm.