SWAPolice Punishment!

[Delia]

i remember all those times you just mentioned - i know we not supposed to live in the past, but as we get older and the responsibilities get heavier, all i want to do sometimes is go back to those times where we could just up and go wherever the wind took us without thinking twice.  Talking of going with the wind, I remember Jacques and I one day hitting the beach with Johan Pretorius's combi - we parked along the river, climbed onto the roof of the combi, me with a bottle of cane, jacques with a bottle of brandy and a 1L coke between us (and plenty herb) with Celebration/Kool & the Gang blaring from the speakers out over the river - to this day i can't hear that song without seeing us sitting there rocking away.  Man, good times...........

Hey Hokkas, you be careful about getting into too much detail here, could open up huge cans of worms for some, ha, ha..........

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Hokkas  -  was/is  your dad perhaps Dave?

[Stephen Hockney]

Hello Dalene,
Yes my dad still is Dave doing well after suffering 2 strokes and forced to early retirement now living in Port Owen just outside Cape Town still drinking to much and abusing mum hahaha, and smoking ,lol. but otherwise doing great mum has also had her breasts removed recently due to cancer but also still in great spirit i guess she just wanted to beat the cancer!!! is you Husband Oom Dirk from the police station hahaha remember having a run in with him too for unlawfully entering the rugby club with Ryan Van Eeden and eating the chips and drinking the cokes,lol.

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Hokkas  -  oom Dirk was my dad  - he passed away in 1999.  I remember that inccident  -  whose dad was it that beat the crap out of him when he was fetched from the police station?  My dad just phoned the parents and ....  before anyone could blink, this one chap's dad grabbed him right there in the police station and went at him with a belt.

I sort of remember we having  braai's at your house ?  Too long ago....

Good to hear both your partents are still going strong, asides from the setbacks. Give my regards to them both. 

[Stephen Hockney]

 sorry to hear about your dad
It sure was not my Dad that did that!! he would always say, just leave the little @ucker there,
but that story does ring a bell the closest to that story i can remember was Gully Muteka he threw a brick at the shool busses window (remember the school busses,lol.) and smashed it his dad really did give him a hell of a hiding,lol. i think it may be that you remember

[Stephen Hockney]

Hey Delia,
lol, thats what i have to watch about those days stories, ill be very carefull about that hahahaha, but i do remember those parties at your flat near the accounts department or the company gym where only the snobs would go train hahaha, i think the best appartment in town, if those walls could talk lol.

[Delia]

U said it bru, u said it - i muted those walls like there's no tomorrow when i left.  I remember my neighbour there was quite a straight laced accounts type girl - shame, i'm surprised she didn't ask to move after our all-nighters we'd have there.  All and sundry would pitch up, and just pass out where they fell. We'd have to step over sprawled out bodies to move around.  So cool to have you on the site. We share some good memories.

[Carl Wrbka]

I came very close to that famous salt cane once, but fortunately in those days if you were under 16 you weren't allowed to be caned by the cops.
My neighbour (Wessel Tonkin jnr) had a pellet gun and we would often practice our sniper tactics on the local pigeon population. We were always carefull to shoot them in our own garden so as not to attract too much attention.
One day however, we were presented with a not to be missed opportunity. A pigeon had landed on the telephone wire which ran across first avenue, and the temptation got the better of us. After taking the bird out with a clean head shot it fell down into the street below... right at the feet of big oom Dirk who was on his way home from work!

AAi, ons gatte het gebrand daai aand.

[Michael Alexander]

Our domestic , Jermiah, who incedently is retiring this month from the mine, built us Katties in the mid 70's and tried to teach us how to take birds out with katties.... I was never into the "hunting" thing, still ain't...don't even see the point of fishing......

[Carl Wrbka]

Do you remember those "krammetjie" katties from school? Just about every kid at school had one. Great for close quarter battles in and out of class.

[georg ruf jr.]

I remember some-one getting his eye injured seriously in 76. This was the time Dr. Venter was the headmaster. He made sure no-one dared shoot anything for quite a while.  ::

[Michael Alexander]

You also had those little Katties made from Scooby doo wire..... with little coloured U shaped wire that you could shoot....

[Carl Wrbka]

Yea, those were the "krammetjie" katties Michael. A good source of ammunition was the cable yard behind the main CDM magazine building across the road from the 5th avenue park. You had to be carefull though, as there were always

:emot77:     around and to be caught there meant serious sh*t.