(And no, this isn’t a “Very Silly Party” dig at the Democrat convention.)
Life: A gang of oversized women shoplifters has been terrorising shopkeepers and supermarkets in the South African port city of Durban over the past two months, police said.
The gang targeted stores in the city’s crime-prone business district and diverted security staff with “commotion” while others packed their bags with goodies, Inspector Michael Read told AFP from Durban.
“Size is a factor in that they use it to intimidate the staff,” he said, adding that the women operated in gangs of between four and 10. …
Monty Python:
Reporter: This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city. Yes, gangs of old ladies attacking defenseless, fit young men.
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(Film of old ladies beating up two young men; then several grannies walking aggressively along street, pushing passers-by aside.)
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First Young Man (dressed like a biker with leather jacket, somewhat threatening looking): Well they come up to you, like, and push you ? shove you off the pavement, like. There’s usually four or five of them.
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Second Young Man (also dressed as a biker): Yeah, this used to be a nice neighborhood before the old ladies started moving in. Nowadays some of us daren’t even go down to the shops. …
I’d also like to give Inspector Read some appreciation for his dry wit: “several arrests have been made but some of these women are still at large.”
