Latest / "What's happening at the Courthouse?" with Rameez Khan / What's Happening at the Courthouse: A cat fight but involving actual cats
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Prison is where it ends for all, court is where
- 0:04Speaker 1: it begins. Show this is the real world, and.
- 0:11Speaker 2: This is what's happening at the courthouse on KFM mornings for.
- 0:17Speaker 3: Me all right, so I added Goodwood yesterday, this is
- 0:23Speaker 3: your what's happening at the courthouse with us Thursday? All right,
- 0:28Speaker 3: where amiss patrols the courthouse steps and ask everybody one
- 0:32Speaker 3: simple question.
- 0:33Speaker 1: What are you doing at the courthouse today?
- 0:35Speaker 2: I've actually brought what I thought was my friend. We
- 0:39Speaker 2: have in a bit of a dispute over cats. Oh
- 0:43Speaker 2: really said the story. We've been staying together for about
- 0:46Speaker 2: two years. She's my roommate. We've been pace friends for
- 0:48Speaker 2: ten years. The cats obviously bonded, got together. She took
- 0:53Speaker 2: out insurance for the cats. Yep. So she's playing it
- 0:57Speaker 2: for us and she's moving out, so she feels that
- 1:03Speaker 2: the cats should be together.
- 1:04Speaker 1: She wants to take your cat with her.
- 1:06Speaker 2: That is exactly what she wants to do. She feels
- 1:09Speaker 2: that because they've been together for this two years, that
- 1:12Speaker 2: they should stay together and I can visit, which is
- 1:17Speaker 2: really not the same thing.
- 1:19Speaker 1: She's not getting the cats.
- 1:20Speaker 2: She's not getting the cats. We have to fight for
- 1:22Speaker 2: our cats.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Oh, sorry, that is that your friend?
- 1:27Speaker 2: You don't call her a friend.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Oh, what's gonna happen to you?
- 1:31Speaker 3: Like?
- 1:31Speaker 1: If she really now wants to take this cat, it's
- 1:34Speaker 1: my cat.
- 1:34Speaker 2: You can't just take the cat. I don't care. I'm
- 1:36Speaker 2: pretty sure and it's not that's not out words.
- 1:38Speaker 1: It's my cat.
- 1:38Speaker 4: But what about the bonding that the two cats, like,
- 1:41Speaker 4: I mean over the two years, like they aren't they
- 1:43Speaker 4: going to be lonely with me?
- 1:45Speaker 2: They can stay with me. Why do I have to
- 1:47Speaker 2: go with her? Why must the cats go with her?
- 1:49Speaker 1: What does she ever bit the house?
- 1:50Speaker 2: No, it's my cat.
- 1:52Speaker 4: She wants the cats to stay with her. What makes
- 1:56Speaker 4: you beIN her?
- 1:57Speaker 2: Have you met her the cats to be a woman
- 2:01Speaker 2: like that. I'm gonna fight this out. If I take
- 2:03Speaker 2: a four years, then that's what I'm gonna get. But
- 2:05Speaker 2: you're not getting my cat. It's not happening.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Done.
- 2:08Speaker 4: I understand. I can feel that. I can hear you.
- 2:12Speaker 4: I can hear the frustration, ma'am, I can hear it.
- 2:15Speaker 2: I both the kitten picked this one. This is my kitten.
- 2:18Speaker 2: I've heard this cat for the past three years. It's
- 2:21Speaker 2: not happening.
- 2:22Speaker 4: What if you give the cat to her and you
- 2:25Speaker 4: get another cat.
- 2:27Speaker 2: She has kids. I don't why is this even a discussion.
- 2:31Speaker 2: She can keep a kid, keep the cat, leave mine.
- 2:35Speaker 2: You can come visit. You know what, These things happen
- 2:37Speaker 2: in America, not in South Africa. You get killed for
- 2:40Speaker 2: stuff like that. You don't take my cat?
- 2:42Speaker 1: Okay? Sure? What happens to your friendship?
- 2:46Speaker 2: What friendship? A friend wouldn't do this, family wouldn't do this.
- 2:50Speaker 2: You know how they say? Cats come and go, friends
- 2:52Speaker 2: coming go?
- 2:54Speaker 4: Sure, Thank you very much for your time, Ma'm you welcome.
- 2:57Speaker 4: What are you doing at the court house today?
- 2:59Speaker 5: I was the one afternoon Saturday afternoon, just chilling with
- 3:02Speaker 5: the with the brothers and friends. Knock on the door.
- 3:05Speaker 5: The young lady came to tell me somebody broke your
- 3:07Speaker 5: car window two o'clock the afternoon, broad daylight.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Wow.
- 3:12Speaker 5: The first thing I do is I grabbed my gun.
- 3:14Speaker 1: And it's a license gun.
- 3:16Speaker 5: Yes it is. My dear passenger side window was completely cracked,
- 3:21Speaker 5: still intact, but completely cracked. So she shed The guy
- 3:24Speaker 5: walked around the corner and as I come around, walked
- 3:28Speaker 5: around a corner not even twenty meters. I see this
- 3:30Speaker 5: guy walking towards me nicely dressed cream pants, yellow shirt,
- 3:35Speaker 5: brown leather jacket, oh sunglasses. I went straight up to him,
- 3:40Speaker 5: into his face, grabbed him by the shoulder, said did
- 3:42Speaker 5: you just break my peep window? He said, know it's
- 3:45Speaker 5: not me, and I said, SI to him, don't talk
- 3:47Speaker 5: to me. And as I'm saying that, I basically leaned
- 3:51Speaker 5: back to punch him. And then he pulled the screwdriver,
- 3:54Speaker 5: and as he pulled the sw pulled my gun. But
- 3:56Speaker 5: then he pulled the screw driver to throw it away,
- 3:58Speaker 5: and he flung it over the house. And as he
- 4:01Speaker 5: did that, I ate him with a gun in the face.
- 4:04Speaker 5: I thought he was gonna stab me with the strew
- 4:07Speaker 5: and then I was beating him, kicking him, and then
- 4:10Speaker 5: my brothers and my friends pulled me off. Was it
- 4:12Speaker 5: him that it was him? Such a decent guy, Such
- 4:16Speaker 5: a decent guy. Anyway, we took him back to the
- 4:18Speaker 5: car and I said him, see what you did, and
- 4:21Speaker 5: he was still saying something. I took his face and
- 4:24Speaker 5: I bashed it through the window. Whoa yeah, And I
- 4:27Speaker 5: was hitting him again while his head was half way
- 4:30Speaker 5: through the window, eating one on the back of the
- 4:32Speaker 5: gun at the back of his head. Anyway, they pulled
- 4:35Speaker 5: me all. They put me in the house. Then at
- 4:37Speaker 5: that moment he ran away. Yes, my brothers and my
- 4:40Speaker 5: friend chased him. They caught him around the corner again.
- 4:42Speaker 5: He pulled a knife on them. That's when I came again,
- 4:45Speaker 5: and when he saw me drop the knife, but it
- 4:48Speaker 5: was too late and I eat him. His own face
- 4:50Speaker 5: was bleeding. His face against the curb. But it's because
- 4:55Speaker 5: he was so like in a violence sight. Yes, I
- 4:58Speaker 5: dragged him by his pen's leg until the police came
- 5:01Speaker 5: because my wife on the police. Yes, I explained, and uh,
- 5:05Speaker 5: I check in the back of the van. Ten minutes later,
- 5:07Speaker 5: his family came. I apologize and ask if I want
- 5:10Speaker 5: to please retract the case. So I said, no, not
- 5:12Speaker 5: gonna happen. I'll play for my own window. Three four
- 5:15Speaker 5: months later, got a call from prosecutor court case. Okay,
- 5:21Speaker 5: I appear in court my very first time. I explained
- 5:24Speaker 5: to the judge what happened. The prosecutor asked me questions,
- 5:27Speaker 5: do I know what a drunk person looks like? He
- 5:29Speaker 5: claims he was drunk. Yes, he's in the court. His
- 5:31Speaker 5: face was still serving the after me. Then he told
- 5:36Speaker 5: the judge I beat him. I pulled my gun on him.
- 5:39Speaker 5: I hit him in the face. The judge asked me,
- 5:41Speaker 5: did you do that? I said, yes, I did, Okay,
- 5:44Speaker 5: Max said, but the reason why I did it was
- 5:46Speaker 5: he pulled the screw. Di wan me. Yes, my brother
- 5:48Speaker 5: chased him. He pulled the knife on him. Yes, I
- 5:51Speaker 5: said him. When I caught him, I dis owned him.
- 5:54Speaker 5: The judge asked him it was mister Jacobs. Say it's true.
- 5:57Speaker 5: He said, yes, So just say him. You are lucky
- 6:00Speaker 5: to be alive. Must you take all the right to
- 6:03Speaker 5: shoot you?
- 6:04Speaker 1: Wow?
- 6:05Speaker 5: Have you got send them?
- 6:06Speaker 1: Two years? You see you?
- 6:08Speaker 2: You sing?
- 6:09Speaker 5: I know I've got off you sing up a fun
- 6:10Speaker 5: Other breaks in the area as well. I think about
- 6:13Speaker 5: eighteen months later, I came out of my driveway and
- 6:15Speaker 5: I saw him with the two women, and I walked
- 6:18Speaker 5: up to him. I took his hand and I said,
- 6:21Speaker 5: you know Mina. Yes, yes, uncle putting me on in there,
- 6:25Speaker 5: I said me, uncle, thank you, thank you very much
- 6:28Speaker 5: for your time.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Sir, you welcome in.
- 6:31Speaker 3: Sure, that's like a Hollywood movie written by Steven Spielberg.
- 6:34Speaker 3: There was a full action scene in there.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Bruce Wallis was in there.
- 6:38Speaker 3: Yeah, man, Jean Claude Van Damn twice to save the day.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Wow.
- 6:47Speaker 3: This, but let's talk about the cats.
- 6:50Speaker 1: There's a lot to unpack there. That's two very different
- 6:53Speaker 1: cat fights going on.
- 6:54Speaker 3: That's that's what what what I think? I don't know
- 6:56Speaker 3: how many people heard the second story after the first story.
- 7:00Speaker 1: But don't get between a woman and her cat. She
- 7:05Speaker 1: is ready to take to the very edge or a
- 7:08Speaker 1: cat lady very.
- 7:11Speaker 3: Own now our resident cat lady.
- 7:15Speaker 1: Listen, I am now.
- 7:19Speaker 6: Imagine somebody telling you that they are just going to
- 7:24Speaker 6: take your cat.
- 7:29Speaker 3: So that the.
- 7:29Speaker 6: Cats can be A cat will survive. Cat will be like,
- 7:33Speaker 6: thank god, I got rid of that other cat.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Now I can be the sole focus again. No, you cannot.
- 7:39Speaker 6: The cat is more attached to the to the person
- 7:42Speaker 6: than the other cat. Unless they are brothers or sisters.
- 7:45Speaker 6: That cat will.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Go and find other friends.
- 7:48Speaker 4: You cannot.
- 7:49Speaker 3: Sorry, do you know something's left?
- 7:54Speaker 1: You take your cat? I take mine? What's the issue?
- 7:58Speaker 3: Someone's child? You can't separate the kid.
- 8:00Speaker 5: That's it yet for the kids to.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Be to be together.
- 8:04Speaker 3: You know, you know in Switzerland, I don't know if
- 8:06Speaker 3: you've ever heard this before, but they have a law
- 8:09Speaker 3: in Switzerland where if you have a guinea pig, you
- 8:14Speaker 3: can never have just one guinea pig.
- 8:16Speaker 1: You have to have two.
- 8:18Speaker 3: That's the law. Because they are social animals. They can't
- 8:23Speaker 3: be alone cats.
- 8:25Speaker 1: They're not social.
- 8:26Speaker 6: They don't like thick people, other cats.
- 8:28Speaker 1: They just like I want to be living.
- 8:30Speaker 4: I wish the cats themselves could go to court because
- 8:32Speaker 4: they don't.
- 8:35Speaker 1: They don't belong to anybody. They belong to themselves.
- 8:37Speaker 6: Have you asked the cats, you know what they need
- 8:40Speaker 6: to do.
- 8:41Speaker 3: They need to put both those ladies there, Yes, and
- 8:44Speaker 3: put both the cats on the other side of the
- 8:46Speaker 3: and they both go wherever the cats go to. That's it.
- 8:51Speaker 6: And no sneaking catnip in your sock.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Or something like that.
- 8:54Speaker 3: I don't know if there's anywhere written in the law
- 8:56Speaker 3: where this judge can cite case law or whatever in
- 8:59Speaker 3: our constitution tuition to go, who gets what cat? Tricky
- 9:02Speaker 3: case that's in the courts in particular.
- 9:05Speaker 1: Goodwood right now?
- 9:06Speaker 3: Yes, great stories for me and give my ship broken? Yeah,
- 9:11Speaker 3: a friendship broken, it's gone first.
- 9:14Speaker 6: Wow, sad story on
- 9:22Speaker 1: What is going on