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Oct 04, 2015 Features / Columnists, My Column
Life can never be straightforward because no matter how you plan something will go wrong. On Friday I was sitting in my office when I got a phone call. The police were after some men one of whom had displayed a gun.
The shocking truth is that all this happened outside the offices of the Criminal Investigations Department at Eve Leary. Immediately I said that somebody had gone stark raving mad. I just couldn’t imagine that crime had reached the stage where people would take their criminal activities to the offices of the police.
The result is that I rushed a cameraman to capture this latest attempt at madness. He got some shots. When he left the office he was under the impression that the men were robbing someone on the seawalls outside the Eve Leary offices. The truth was something else.
The men had actually committed a robbery somewhere else in the city. They then drove to the seawalls to divide the loot. Of course, there are not too many people there so the division could be conducted in peace and undisturbed.
Someone once said that there is no honour among thieves. That has to be true because something went wrong. The belief is that the bandits fell out over the division. So violent was the disagreement that they ended up crashing the car. They then came out and so it was that one of them displayed the gun.
Two things people advise against. Thieves should never attempt to escape when they are in the vicinity of a school that had just dismissed. I remember a man who went to the home of a pig farmer in Beterverwagting to steal a pig.
The art was to take a hammer and strike the pig on its head. That would render the pig unconscious. The man would then proceed to kill the animal in the pen and fetch away the carcass. The man succeeded in entering the pig pen and using the hammer on the animal but the homeowner spotted him.
He decided to run, scaling fences in his bid to escape. He ran toward St Mary the Virgin Anglican School which had just dismissed for the day. The noise of the chase alerted the children and they joined in. Try as he might the man could not shake off the children.
At one stage he hid under a bridge and disappeared from view. By then the police had joined the chase and the man might have escaped detection but for the school children. One of them spotted a pair of eyes under a bridge and raised the shout. The man slipped from under the bridge but he could not get far. He was caught.
The two men on the seawalls did not cater for a group of recruits who had just finished a training stint. That is the second saying. Never try to run or commit a crime when a group of police recruits have just been released from a training stint. They heard the shout of “gun” and they came out of the compound like ants from a disturbed nest. They gave chase after the men who were certainly not the fittest.
It was no laughing matter but those who witnessed the happening laughed. The men ran until they literally dropped. The police recovered a gun.
There are other instances of people throwing caution to the wind and committing crimes in full public view. All too often the nation would hear of a man snatching something in the vicinity of a municipal market. He does not get far because public spirited citizens respond to the shouts and would invariably catch the thief.
There then follows the cursory beatings and the man is handed over to the police.
But what about those who gun down people in the full view of spectators? Recently there has been a lot of that in East Ruimveldt. There must be a vendetta because so far three men have been shot and killed. One of the killings was exceedingly tragic. There was this young man who was warned that some gunmen were seeking him.
Reports are that the young man hid. People also said that he had a gun. He came out of hiding when he believed that the men had gone but he should have realized that people would have told the hunters that the young man was in the area. The hunters found him and shot him dead.
There are those in the society who say that the killers and gunmen are ridding the society of evil people and thus giving the police less work. I am from the old school that teaches that life is precious. Of course we have only one life so when we lose it that is the end of that.
Yet one cannot understand this mad rush by some to relieve people of money and valuables. People even travel great distances to do this. Yesterday the police issued a bulletin that stated how some people went to a house at Crane West Demerara and stole more than $2 million.
It turned out that these people had travelled from Kitty on the other side of the river. They have been caught. Fortunately for them they did not have to run from police recruits.
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