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Feb 26, 2017 Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks
Cell phones continue to be a magnet for criminals, but these days stealing a phone is not a good idea. A man would steal a phone during a snatch on the streets and would be surprised when the police turn up at his home.
He would initially deny because he thinks that by removing the SIM he would have removed all traces. He is going to get a rude awakening.
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A scandal is never far away. It would not come as a surprise when a school teacher is arrested for inappropriate behaviour with his students. He would be in the rating for a porn star just as some of his students were a few short months ago.
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The waters in the rivers are going to claim another life. The police are going to fish a body out of a waterway on East Coast Demerara. The man would simply collapse under the influence of alcohol, but rains and swollen canals and rivers do not take such things into consideration.
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