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Title: Strange story about my Dad Post by: Trevor on August 04, 2015, 06:41:57 AM As you all know, Dad (and Mom) was my mentor when it comes to films by the simple act of dragging me into a horrible place called THE THEATER / THE CINEMA when I was seven :buggedout: :wink: but there is one thing I've never told anyone here. Dad was a street thug (or tsotsi as we call them here) in his teens and was turned around by a judge who gave him a choice between jail and the armed forces: Dad went to the army and his life changed.
What is odd is that Dad used to mug people for money as a teen and then, almost thirty years later, he became a cop! :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: I'm looking at his picture on my desk now and smiling. Website of the British South Africa Police: www.bsap.org (http://www.bsap.org) Title: Re: Strange story about my Dad Post by: ER on August 04, 2015, 08:14:38 AM Ha! Heck of a lot better than a cop who becomes a street thug. Of course some of those get to work for chemistry teachers turned meth lords, but that's another story...
Title: Re: Strange story about my Dad Post by: Trevor on August 04, 2015, 08:55:11 AM Ha! Heck of a lot better than a cop who becomes a street thug. Of course some of those get to work for chemistry teachers turned meth lords, but that's another story... :teddyr: :teddyr: Another funny story about him happened in 1998: Dad was then in his late sixties and he and Mom were visiting me when I used to live in Pretoria central which even then was pretty run down. There was a guy upsetting the ladies at my building's reception, Dad warned him once, the guy swore at him and Dad punched him out cold.* *Dad didn't mention that he was a pretty good boxer in the army. :teddyr: :teddyr: |