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All those are single episodes, not daily happenings!

and when they happen, they end up in court.


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And what proof do you have that says people here do not end up in court ?


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They police did not even turn up after having picked me up in the road 0*\ 0*\ OK, that's only a single incident, but if they do not get caught it is a bit difficult that they turn up in court. You do have a problem (one of many) in SA, whatever you say!


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Yes, lots of problems here! :-(


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One should not take one single incident as normal , even if such a single incident specifically happen to you personally .
I can also quote specific incidents that happened to me and my wife for when we travelled , not only in USA ( mugged in New York ) , but also in Europe ( robbed in Rome ) , and in Miami , someone tried to sell us drugs , and even got caught up in a shoot-out ( stuck ) in Farmington , New Mexico , but one cannot accept that as normal .
So , must we now say New York is total crime city , or Rome is just full of robbers , or Miami drugs capital of the world 0*\

But guess what , in all our travels in South Africa , nothing like that have ever happened to us 0*\

Oh , and I just remembered , that once , when we travelled in Switzerland , took the wrong turning into some village , and some guy came storming out , shouting and screaming at us , threatening to assault us with his walking stick =O:


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okie wrote: Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:35 pm One should not take one single incident as normal ,
That's exactly what you quoted from Rome. And the rest from this last post are things that have happened to you.

There must be a reason why South Africa is considered a dangerous country in the whole world.

I suppose that you read the newspaper every day. There is not one day during the whole year that there has not been a crime of some kind. Look at the statistics of the murders every year in SA!


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The kind of crime is often truly subhuman here too. Similar in other countries too, but with a far greater prevalence! will rather not expand here as it boggles the mind! There is something seriously amiss, and I put it down to attempting to apply selective 1st world discipline to a largely 3rd world population.


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Richprins wrote: Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:07 pm I put it down to attempting to apply selective 1st world discipline to a largely 3rd world population.
That's what I have always thought and said \O


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Lisbeth wrote: Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:25 pm
okie wrote: Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:35 pm One should not take one single incident as normal ,
That's exactly what you quoted from Rome. And the rest from this last post are things that have happened to you.

There must be a reason why South Africa is considered a dangerous country in the whole world.

I suppose that you read the newspaper every day. There is not one day during the whole year that there has not been a crime of some kind. Look at the statistics of the murders every year in SA!
Well , with all its faults , I still love my country , and I will not leave it for anything in the world :O^
And it does not matter how bad anyone , from anywhere , wants to make it :O^ That is their loss , not mine .


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There is nothing wrong with your country, Okie! It is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, but you would be better off without quite a lot of people thinking that they have the right to murder, hurt, steal from other people and not only foreigners!.......and a government which has been to occupied to help themselves instead of the country!!


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