Tag Archives: crime

Publishing photos of criminal suspects

Posted on 28 October 2024 by stuff writer

The SAPS act of 1995 is widely rumoured to grant protection to criminals from being photographed, and from the publication of their likeness. This rumour is based on lawyers lying about the law. Imagine. The horror. Analysis of South African … Continue reading →

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Find my device or anything that saw it recently and has travelled 15km or so

Posted on 12 September 2024 by stuff writer

Google’s “Find My Device” function does a pretty good job of finding a device. It has a few mechanisms: That last method, bluetooth snitching, produces some interesting results. I dropped my phone by accident, and discovered it missing when I … Continue reading →

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Justice denied by creative remedies

Posted on 13 September 2023 by stuff writer

South Africa has a crime problem of note, and the ANC government together with the former National Party government is 100% guilty of it. It is not so much that the laws are wrong (they are), or that the police … Continue reading →

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Never clientele

Posted on 14 February 2018 by stuff writer

I’m a bit angry.  For weeks I have been receiving multiple calls from a robodialler trying to sell me clientele insurance. It starts with a call from +27876546440 playing some recording (but this number changes). I have no idea what … Continue reading →

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Organs: Neither donor nor recipient be

Posted on 9 July 2016 by stuff writer

Organ transplants used to be a matter of saving lives: after a tragic death, the better bits of the deceased are given to someone in desperate need, whose life is saved.  It was a good news story: sight for the … Continue reading →

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Search-engine assisted fraud HOWTO

Posted on 26 April 2016 by stuff writer

As many of the readers of this fine site are career criminals, it seems good to explain a new and popular procurement fraud scam.  Here’s a piccie to muddy the waters, followed by the blow-by-blow account, in which the numbers … Continue reading →

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NIV1984 switcheroo

Posted on 5 July 2014 by stuff writer

Three years too late, I’m running into this controversy that is now starting to hit our shores. In 1984 the International Bible Society published a new English translation of the Bible: the New International Version, NIV1984.  This was welcome, not only … Continue reading →

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Android Emergency

Posted on 13 March 2014 by stuff writer

On the way to work one fine morning, I stopped at a road accident scene, with some rather traumatic injuries – I thought someone had died, but instead of being dead, that someone spoke to me and asked me to … Continue reading →

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The butler did it

Posted on 15 April 2013 by stuff writer

The South African Police Service (SAPS) hold as common knowledge that by far the majority of murders are committed by family members and occasionally by known associates.  When Ani Dewani was murdered in Cape Town, the police immediately suspected her … Continue reading →

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We are not alone

Posted on 27 January 2013 by stuff writer

We are not alone.  We are being watched.  We are being watched by aliens.  We have certain proof of it. They are not locals – they crumple up econet sim cards on the pavement. That’s how we know they’re aliens. … Continue reading →

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