[I received this freaky report from Adriana Stuijt. Jan]

POLICE TAKES THREE HOURS TO RESPOND TO EXPLOSION ALERT

May 22 2007 – PRETORIA, South Africa. Gawie de Jager, 53, (left) a labourer of Danville near Pretoria, got the fright of his life when he found two dynamite-explosion mechanisms (“caps”) hidden inside his car which had been parked near his job. There was enough explosive in the caps to “blow up his car or a small house,” de Jager told Beeld newspaper. He was so terrified that he even even feared turning off his car radio while waiting, waiting and waiting for the cops to arrive.

The alerted police bomb squad took a full 3 hours to show up to investigate — and then accused the Afrikaner of being a ‘terrorist”, leaving him pleading not to be arrested and dissolved in tears.

“I was terrified (that the caps would explode) while waiting for them, and had to call them repeatedly, finally threatening to phone Beeld newspaper if they did not come and fetch the dynamite-caps after waiting for the police for three hours,” he said.

He has no idea how the two explosive caps had arrived in his car – but having dug many thousands of swimming pools over the years, the Afrikaner labourer knew everything there was to know about dynamite — and knew that these caps were very dangerous to handle or move.

Police refused to say whether this was the same kind of commercial device used to blow up so many cash-points of banks these days. One bank cash-point a day is being blown up by armed robbers in South Africa — with 60 such attacks during the first two months of this year alone and 400 in the previous two years spreading much fear throughout the community.

URL: http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-…/p>