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Trevor
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« 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
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I know I can make it on my own if I try, but I'm searching for the Great Heart
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« Reply #1 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...
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« Reply #2 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
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