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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 84831, member: 27"]
Courts in Binga and Tsholotsho just slapped two men with community service after they got busted for swiping mobile phones.

Family member steals phone during funeral service
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[*]Field Nkiwane thought a funeral was a good time to snag a mobile device worth US$150 from his own brother-in-law.
[*]The 63-year-old thief got ratted out to the police once the victim realized his relative was trying to get the device flushed.
[*]A judge suspended the entire jail sentence as long as the older man puts in 210 hours of work for the community.
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Transport operator catches thief at repair shop
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[*]Philip Mudenda hitched a ride in a Toyota Noah only to walk off with the blue Itel A58 belonging to the driver.
[*]The victim basically went full detective by warning every technician in the Binga business district to look for the stolen gear.
[*]Police caught the 29-year-old suspect red-handed while he was trying to wipe the data at a local shop in the Chilila area.
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Magistrates deliver sentences for mobile thefts
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[*]The Binga Magistrates Court handed down a 13-month term but let the thief off with 6 months of labor instead.
[*]Both criminals avoided actual prison time by agreeing to work off their crimes through hundreds of hours of service.
[*]Recovery of the hardware happened in both cases because the victims acted fast and alerted the authorities before the phones vanished.
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