From Russia with love
NEWS from Russia. A man who tried to rob a hairdresser’s at gunpoint was beaten senseless by the female black belt salon owner, who then used him as a sex slave for three days.
Viktor Jasinski, 32, demanded the day’s takings at the salon in Meshchovsk, but was floored with a kick and tied up naked by karate expert Olga Zajac, 28.
He later told police he had been held hostage and fed nothing but Viagra.
She said: “Yes, we did have sex a couple of times, but I bought him new jeans.” They were both arrested. A curious story, to be sure. Hairdressers certainly can be frisky and a handful, but this seems an extreme case.
I wonder if they’re in separate cells?
Smart thinking
MORE innovative thinking comes
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mercidler@inl.co.za
this way in a formulation that is doing the rounds.
South Africa has 26 000 shebeens and taverns. Every week SA Breweries delivers exactly the correct amount of beer to these outlets. They never run dry.
South Africa has about 26 000 schools. After years of planning and wrestling with the problem, the government still is unable to deliver textbooks to all of them.
GET SA Breweries to take over the delivery of school textbooks.
But does this mean the various provincial education departments should take over the delivery of beer to shebeens and taverns?
No. The resultant non-delivery of beer would cause social unrest.
Simplest solution: let SA Breweries take over the running of the entire country.
Cheers!
Mill located
MORE on the water mills of old Natal. Barry James, of Howick, inquired recently whether anyone knows anything about the water mill built about 200 years ago in Pietermaritzburg by Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius.
He’s interested in the wood the water wheel was constructed of because he’s contributing to a book on the indigenous woods of southern Africa.
My intrepid lady sleuth of 19th century water mills (who prefers to keep her name out of it) has now tracked down this water mill. It was moved from Pretorius’s farm, Groot Mielietuin, to Weenen, and it’s still there, on the banks of the Tugela, though not operating today.
Anyone who wants to take a look at it need only contact the curator of the Weenen museum.
My lady sleuth says there were at least two other water mills (besides those at Masons Mill, in