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Oct 23, 2016 Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks
The police are under pressure to keep the society safe, but political pressure will endure other ideas. The issue of crime was a major determinant in the change of political power. So it is that forces are creating conditions for criminal activity.
The result is that there will be a series of gun crimes, all of them involving ordinary people. But this is going to come to a crashing end, because the police will not use restraint. That will create another talking point.
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The occasional fire is always worrying. And so it will be that another fire will direct attention to the electric company. People will claim that they saw the sparking on an electric pole and they will contend that this is the cause.
Investigators will find faulty electrical configuration in the home.
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There will be an industrial accident. A worker will fall from a great height, because he did not take the necessary precautions while working above the ground.
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