ROAD RAGE...

(begun Sunday 28th March at 3.20am....)

Here's one for Nicky... *grins...
Shortly after der Kommissar had made his idiotic call to our Secretary as she rode with me round the neighbourhood on Thursday, we'd pulled up unannounced at the school gate in Sandringham Place.. I hit the buzzer, but no go Joe.. So I hit it again, still nothing... A car pulled up behind me to go in, but I was of course blocking the entrance and the driver went ballistic almost immediately... I got out and went over to his open window and asked if he would open the gate.. My immediate impression was AWB or Security as he was ranting that he didn't know me and there was no way he was letting us in... *grins... (Two pensioners mind you!)

At that point someone on the inside opened the gate and I shot through and parked.. He pulled in to the other end of the Parking lot and me and the Secretary went on in to deliver our flyers.. I guess the teachers were all having their final Meeting before closing for the Easter break, and it was fairly chaotic in there...
I managed to find someone I knew in Admin and asked who the exeptionally rude fellow was.... He behaved as if he was Security says I.... At that point she got up to investigate and we took her outside and pointed out his vehicle... I walked over to the guy sitting in his car, whose wife (obviously a teacher) had by then joined him... He'd clearly had a quick word with her en nou wou sy my ok soek!!  *laughing...
He was just as rude as he'd been outside the gate, so I trotted back in with the angry wife now at my heels, at which point the Headmistress opened her office door, greeted me by name and ushered us in with a big smile.. Oops!   *winks..

The wife obviously took note and by the time we got back out to the parking lot they were standing outside their car talking fast to a third person... I went straight on over and stuck my hand out to him.. Hell, it was about 35 degrees in the shade with the humidity, and I know a bit about bullying myself, so I didn't bear a grudge..
No surprise to find that he'd done a 180 degree turn since the wife had told him of our welcome..*roffels...
I chatted to him briefly to show there were no hard feelings but man, given the opportunity, that guy would as soon have mowed me down and enjoyed doing it, despite his startling change in manner... *laughing..
He said he was from PE and I'm betting you can figure out who he is and what he's up to here in Durban?  Gav?  Just a feeling mind you....

Back to yesterday and my call to Water Faults..  I'd had to go out to the shops at 8.00am but no Muni vehicles had arrived by then, despite that the water had been turned off.. When I eventually got  back there were just two chaps working outside No. 14, so I trudged up the hill and spoke to them.. They'd made a huge raggedy hole in the middle of the road FFS, though the leak had been right by No. 17 as you can plainly see HERE.   *puzzled...  The youngster struggling with the jackhammer looked vaguely familiar, and was clearly not comfortable with the heavy machine he was wielding... With Pink T-shirt, diamante ear stud and obligatory Clubber's spikey hairdo, he had brought along his dog and tied it to the palisade fencing...*blinks..
A solitary droog laboured away down in the hole, sweating profusely in the excrutiating humidity, while a third chap took a quick call from the cab of their white, unmarked bakkie..*winks.. You get the picture here?  When I questioned Pretty Boy about bringing his dog out in the heat he said he'd just taken it for it's inoculations when he'd got the call to report for work...*chokes at the creativity...

I went up to see the GW off (I guess after 2.00pm sometime), and just missed seeing another prang down by the stopstreet.   A guy drove up minutes later and stopped to tell us angrily that the wekkers in Jan Smuts had left a huge mess of stones and sand covering the steep road and he'd seen it early that morning and had asked them to sweep it up, as it was a hazard.. Naturally they hadn't, and some poor sucker had now come down the hill a bit too fast and on braking had slid neatly into the car ahead, who'd slid into the car ahead en so voerts....
Our three guys meanwhile were still at it outside No. 14 and the dog was still tied to the railings... I chatted again briefly to the youngster and was unsurprised to find that he knew Balliram personally.
I guess it was the dog and the ear stud, and maybe the fact that the kid didn't look as though he'd done a hard day's labour in his life, that gave the game away...
I was just walking away when an mlungu arrived to say 'you guys are just making more work for me here'... He was a road surfacing contractor...

You think the ability to surge the water mains is included in the computer program still being managed by Balliram and his Crooked Boss Nayager, or would it have to be done manually?  I've an idea the spliff-smoking Wanker has been given charge of the water supplies as well, and am sufficiently amused to ask how you're feeling about Mo Shaik's SARS Big Brother intiative right now... *shrieks....
You seriously consider this crap is restricted to the Zone?  *falls on over..
How many of you have similar chaos in the street just outside YOUR gates?
How many of you are unaware that your home falls under the jurisdiction of a particular Druglord?  The Project salesman forgot to add that fact when he sold you the concept?  Ooops...!  You're going to tell me you had no choice, and you'd be right...

To the guys down our way that engineered der Kommissar's removal from Dodge City, albeit temporary... Beware.  For some (at this point) inexplicable reason, the Perverted Abuser and his equally sick Monkey still hold the means to enter your homes, activate the invisible cameras on the street and 'manage' all of your telephones... Anyone experienced any form of payback yet?  *curious...
Hijacked?  Geyser blown up?  Water contaminated?  House breakin?  Man, you put him in power, now deal with the fallout... *yawns...

What does the Trouble-Shooter know that we don't and why doesn't he lock up der Kommissar and Balliram, when he's fully aware that they continue their corrupt practises?  It's not in his brief to touch them?  It's *gags* complicated?  Bullshit!   Smoke and mirrors dudes, that's what it is, and no question about it...*coughs endlessly...
I've just gotten round to looking at yesterday's Weekend Witness (www.witness.co.za) and on Page 12 and 13 I found the Abahlali baseMjondolo march has been given a doublepage spread.. *claps... It makes for interesting, if scary, reading... The thing is guys, that the existing squatter camps desperately need upgrading and the Abahlali members living over at Kennedy Road were most definitely working to improve the community's quality of life, before their violent expulsion..
The Press coverage I'd blogged as non-existent is in fact there for all to see, and I dare to hope the winds of change will allow these people to return to their homes and continue their good work without fearing for their lives...*curtsies to Willies....

LATER at 6.55am..

I marvelled at the timing of the very first thread sitting in Broadband News on Mybb last night.. *winks... Scrumptious had dared to post on the March issue of Noseweek's article on the Craigavon debacle.. I'd be mighty surprised to find it there when I visit the site later today, and was briefly amused by the few lame comments that attempted to undermine Noseweek's credibility... It won't wash dudes.. You don't get much better than Martin Welz if you're looking for honesty and integrity, though I doubt the comments were aimed at anything other than butt-kissing the unfortunate Strategist... *sighs..

The fact that my criticisms are in general treated with contempt, doesn't escape me, but neither does it deter me..
Epsilon at bblounge.co.za is to be commended for his admirable efforts at keeping the site alive with often interesting posts and links... Alas, my one-time hero Kirplunk (for his sterling contributions in the original iBurst Tower Thread at mybb) appears to have lost the plot and returns, once again determined to make a complete ass of himself... While the  drubbing I receive is mostly justified, these youngsters are really bright and yet fail to see that their continued pettiness puts them at my level of idiocy... Ruk jou reg Meneertjie, and at least TRY and be the bigger man. Tsk.

So how did the four males access the Hanbury complex in Candella road the other morning at 1.30am?  Did they really cut through the razor wire and scale the walls?  The residents claim they had already provided Sydenham SAPS with a key and immobiliser for the complex gates, and yet the cops responded very late?  Who was in possession of those vital items at the time?  Capt. Subrathi?  Const. Masuku?  Is there any point in asking Supt. Matthysen?

Have you noticed how many manhole covers have sunk beneath the road surface to dangerous levels?  Standard wear and tear, or is there now a great deal of water just underground with nowhere to go?
I went up earlier to fetch the paper and found the hydrant across the road is still leaking visibly, despite the young Clubber's insistence before they left, that we wouldn't have further problems.. *snorts at Balliram... As if you could leave it alone!

It's the childish mentality displayed by these two apparently adult males that makes it all so bizarre... I've not got a wrinkled leg to stand on, but in my defense I do NOT hold a position of responsibility, while they would like to think they do, albeit the promotion of crime in the area right now.. *spews...
Who did he get hitched to the second time around and does it have any bearing on current events here in the Zone? A long shot? Maybe... *grins..

LATER at 10.00am...

Mistuh Bickerson was having a grumble about the lack of water pressure earlier and took himself up the road a bit, only to find another break, this time pouring gallons down a stormwater drain just beyond the Blind Home... I could sell tickets to this Freak Show about now.. *cackles..
This nonsense has Balliram's signature all over it, and there's the matter of his young buddy struggling with  the jackhammer yesterday as well.. Barnabas said to do your worst?  *yawns..

McLeod is going to trot out a press release claiming water losses are due to illegal connections next, you watch.. *gags.. I'm betting there's worse to come, but figure that once the average home-owner gets their head around the back to basics concept, they'll be fine.. There's little that excites the Sicko next door more than eavesdropping on the cries of dismay resulting from his mischief.. Learn to roll with it and smile, damn you, smile!   *beams..

Peace julle..

---oOo---

Sunday 28th March 2010 at 11.04am..