Lions coach stabbed
11 Oct 2010
John Mitchell was stabbed twice during a robbery at his Hyde Park apartment on Sunday.
Lions spokeswoman Krystle Geach told stuff.co.nz that Mitchell had been at home with his flat-mate and fellow coach Wayne Taylor when he heard a noise.
‘Mitch heard someone coming into the room. He thought it was Wayne, because Wayne has quite a dry sense of humour, so he tackled the guy,’ Geach said. ‘But it was an intruder.’
A second intruder then stabbed Mitchell in the arm and the leg, she said. The intruders then tied Mitchell up and ransacked the apartment. Taylor climbed out the window and down the drainpipe to alert police.
Geach said Mitchell was taken to hospital, but has now been released after having his wounds stitched up.
‘He is otherwise OK, a little bit shocked but OK. He will be back at work tomorrow [Monday].’
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12 Oct 2010, 06:52 am
@ufo(ufo)-550:
Tackles has made so many mistakes of late they even contemplating taking his plastic spelling ‘police’ badge away…but like a friend of mine once said…”I once thought I was wrong…but I was mistaken!” Sums up Tackles I think…
12 Oct 2010, 06:57 am
@whatever(whatever)-524:
I never said that.
12 Oct 2010, 07:01 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-551:
well put…
outta here…
got places to be…
have yourself a good day…
12 Oct 2010, 08:23 am
@whatever(whatever)-544: Tell that google is wrong to joburg.org.za — the OFFICIAL site of the city of Joburg itself!
Wrong?
I don’t think so.
Joburg, INCLUDING Soweto (which is part of Joburg) has 3.2 million people.
That’s all, folks.
12 Oct 2010, 08:27 am
NZ has over a million people more than Joburg.
No SA city has more people than NZ. None of them.
12 Oct 2010, 08:35 am
” …According to the 2007 Community Survey, the population of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area was 7,151,447.
If we include Ekhuruleni (East Rand), the West Rand, Soweto and Lenasia – which are all officially part of Joburg and certainly a single contiguous built up area – Joburg has a population of 10,267,700…”
Complete bull.
12 Oct 2010, 09:43 am
@grant10(grant10)-361: Would that be the same capitalist system that lets you stroll along Clifton beach every day? Terrible!
12 Oct 2010, 10:34 am
@Atreides(Atreides)-557: it also sees millions living in squalor….something is not right my friend….and no one can rest easy as long as hunger and poverty ius a reality for millions on our doorsteps.
I am not clever enough to think i have the silver bullet answers….but all i know is the current world wide systems seem fundamentally flawed.
I wont discuss politics on line….and not on a rugby forum.
All i am saying is the world seems to be rgressing…at an alsrming rate. will leave the solutions to cleverer people than i am.
12 Oct 2010, 11:52 am
No millions living in squalor in first-world capitalist nations, pilgrim. A handful of winos and junkies living rought, but they’re self-destroyed social jetsam.
12 Oct 2010, 11:52 am
rough
12 Oct 2010, 13:21 pm
@grant10(grant10)-558: I think most systems have the same…communism no different. but obviously colonisation di dhave a big effect (although most countries have been colonised at one point or another….th edifference is shaking of the hangover and getting on with it)
What really hacks me off these days is that these guys are capitalists when the going is good but revert to socialism when the going gets tough. Risk is part and parcel of capitalism, you can;t become acommie and beg for govt handouts when the money runs dry!
12 Oct 2010, 13:31 pm
@Atreides(Atreides)-561: ja….go see latest wall str movie….see the capitilists beg!!
12 Oct 2010, 15:51 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-554: Ahem… The Joburg website (joburg.org.za/content/view/404/52/) states that the unicity has a population approaching 9 million.
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-559: You’re lying and you know it bud.
12 Oct 2010, 17:00 pm
I felt great shame when i read what had happened to John Mitchell, silly i know but thats how i felt, he is a very lucky man that guns were not involved.
12 Oct 2010, 17:04 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-564: I feel massive shame too. Shame for him, shame for my country and the image of our country overseas (like it needed another scandal).
But mostly shame on the perpetrators of the crime. Shame on people who commit these violent crimes.
And shame on our government and police that do very little to stop it and improve it
12 Oct 2010, 17:07 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-559: Eish Tackler – that is not accurate. There are millions in America living on or under the poverty line.
There are hundreds of thousands in Britain in poverty. Unbelievable as it may seem, apparently there are…
Although, I make no excuses for SA and for the situation. Ive never seen poor people in the “1st World” who have literally nothing like the poor in SA.
13 Oct 2010, 00:24 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-556: I think you have that confused with what comes out of your mouth each time you open it.
13 Oct 2010, 02:02 am
@ufo(ufo)-540:
“They all like to come back”
Look pal – I can understand you getting upset with people like our fellow blogger, but rest assured, many of those that left won’t come within a thousand miles of the place if they could.
I’ve been gone for 15 years – UK and then Oz. I’ve been back twice, both times for family reasons, one of them a bereavment, a year or so ago. If I want to go on holiday I’ll go somewhere where I won’t get stabbed/shot or have my security threatened. I have nothing against South Africa or South Africans of any hue or culture (perhaps unlike our esteemed friend), but I certainly wouldn’t want to live there.
As for Tackler – if New Zealand was so hot, why do so many thousands of his compatriots wing it across the Tasman every year for a better life?
13 Oct 2010, 02:48 am
To make room for all the incoming yarpies.
13 Oct 2010, 02:51 am
@THEBokFan(bokfan1)-566: That’s the Beverly Hills poverty-line. The one where you’re below it when you can only afford a BMW series 1 or 3, or a lowly C- or E-class Merc and not enough good sense to buy a Lexus.
13 Oct 2010, 02:55 am
@Michael(mikeybrass)-563: Here’s a copy/paste from that very website you cite:
City of Johannesburg statistics
The statistics below are those provided by the Census 2001 report compiled by Stats SA.
* The population of Johannesburg is 3,2-million
Read more: http://www.joburg.org.za
See? Three-point-two million, pilgrim.
QED.
13 Oct 2010, 05:53 am
@NSWStormer(NSWStormer)-568:
another liar i see…???
you quote me as saying… “They all like to come back”…
what i said was…
“of course people who have left don’t have close the chapter and not look back… I have friends and family who have left the country… but they don’t constantly insult me and try to convince me or themselves that they have made the superior choice and i’m a fool for not agreeing with them…
and BTW…. they’d all prefer to come back…”
so where did i say… “They all like to come back”…
i don’t know you and wasn’t talking about you… i was talking about my friends and family…
perhaps you protesteth too much…
but PAL… if you’re gonna have a go… at least have the integrity to quote me accurately…
seems when some of you leave south africa… you leave perspective and the truth behind…
i wonder why…
like i said… a great pity that guys like you move away… but don’t move on…
13 Oct 2010, 06:04 am
tackler you’re also being deliberately dishonest here…
your own post…
543. TheTackler(TheTackler) :
October 12th, 2010 at 6:32 am
“The current metropolitan area of Johannesburg – formed in 2000 by the merger of five previously independent municipal areas – covers a total of 1 644km², with an average density of 1 962 persons per km².
Johannesburg, with a population of 3,2 million spread across 1 006 930 households, is characterised by its youthful residents, with 42 percent of the population under the age of 24 and 49 percent under the age of 34?
but then you exclude the population of the areas you’ve just written make up metropolitan joburg,,,?? with a total population of 10,267,700…
cherry picking the facts again…
but why does that surprise us… you’re the kind of human being who excludes and discounts anyone who isn’t of the same philosophy, religion, colour…
13 Oct 2010, 06:05 am
@ufo(ufo)-572:
Can you please explain to me the difference between like and prefer?
PS Your caps lock key seems to be broken!
13 Oct 2010, 06:10 am
@ufo(ufo)-573:
Errr 1 644km² * 1 962 persons per km² = 3,225,528
None so blind as those who can’t count, sorry, I mean those who don’t want to see!
13 Oct 2010, 06:24 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-574:
sorry slarti… i’m not an english teacher…
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-575:
“None so blind as those who can’t count, sorry, I mean those who don’t want to see!”
1644km² represents an area of about 40km x 40km… anyone who has been to joburb and driven to the five previous municipalities… West rand, east rand, soweto, lenasia and fifth one escapes me now.. will know that it’s bigger than 40×40 kms…
have you ever driven from randfontein to springs…???
like you say…
“None so blind as those who can’t count, sorry, I mean those who don’t want to see!”
i’m tired of this…
believe what you want bud…
cheers
13 Oct 2010, 06:36 am
@ufo(ufo)-576:
Well maybe someone should go and tell the people running the Joburg website then, is that not where the stats come from.
The reality is that until they change it to reflect the mileage you showed when you did the trip in the Hilux, Tackles is right and you are wrong. Now apologise for calling him dishonest!
13 Oct 2010, 09:03 am
@ufo(ufo)-573: “Metropolitan Joburg” or “Greater Joburg” is a fictional myth at worst or an administrative entity at best.
It’s as ludicrous as including Stellenbosch, Paarl, Wellington, Malmesbury, Piketberg, Moorreesburg, Somerset West/Strand/Gordons Bay, Klapmuts, Riebeeck West, Langebaan, Yzerfontein and Vredenburg/Saldanha as part of “greater Cape Town” or the “Cape Town metropolitan area”.
Joburg is Joburg. Population 3.2 million, by their OWN official estimate.
Cape Town is Cape Town. Not all those extra stuff miles and miles away with miles of grass and bush and sand and bugger-all in between.
Joburg = 3.2 million. Cape Town = 3.4 million.
NZ = 4.3 million.
Tilt. Game Over.
13 Oct 2010, 11:29 am
@ufo(ufo)-572:
You are actually the dishonest one.
Unfortunately you are also stoopid, stoopid.
13 Oct 2010, 21:45 pm
@ufo(ufo)-572: Ever heard of paraphrasing? Probably not, sorry expected too much of you, I’ll learn to lower my expectations in future when replying to a post of yours…
prefer v/s like – pretty much the same meaning in the context one would have thought.
#579 – Spot on.
14 Oct 2010, 06:43 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-578:
in your own post you quoted that in 2000 joburg included the other five previously independent municipal areas… yet you don’t include them in your figures…
why speak of cape town now…? bit of mis-direction here…? shifting goal posts…?
in your bigotted hate-filled dream world you can call joburg municipality a myth… but that doesn’t make it one…
@Inevitable(Inevitable)-579:
brave logical post dude…!! i liked the facts and evidence you put forward…
fool…
@NSWStormer(NSWStormer)-580:
you’re also a fool…
you “quoted” me… in quotes… that is NOT paraphrasing… you put something it quotes that means you’re repeating the actual words used by the person you’re quoting…
you’re also deliberately missing the point i made…
the difference between like and prefer is not relevant…
the point was… i was not talking about or inlcuding everyone who has left south africa… like you… who i don’t know…
i was talking about my friends and family who i do know and who miss the place they still call home and have expressed to me that they’d prefer to come “home”… especially after saturday’s game…
likewise… i’ll expect less from you in future… i certainly won’t expect you to actually read my posts and the actual words i’ve written… it seems that is too much effort for you… so comprehending the words will be imppossible…
14 Oct 2010, 07:58 am
@ufo(ufo)-581: CT is simply used to illustrate the fallacy of your “greater Joburg” fiction in terms that Capetonians can grasp.
And your OWN SOURCE authoritatively lists Joburg as having only 3.2 million, and not some thumbsuck number which includes every satellite town in the boonies within a whopping 100km radius but which forms part of an administrative municipal/regional entity.
Joburg has 3.2m; CT is bigger at 3.4m.
Neither has 4.3m.
The End.
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