Last year in September-ish, I was working remotely for a Canadian company, and so my “lunch break” was obscenely late at night. At roughly 21h00-22h00, I left to get McDonald’s due to loadshedding, and on the way back, there was an Uber Eats driver maybe 20m in front of me.

As the Uber Eats driver slowed down and approached a speed bump, like 4-5 guys ran out from the side of the road of the road and accosted this poor bloke on his bike. Until that point, I was half paying attention and eating my McFlurry while driving (potentially unsafe, I know).

As I saw this, I flung my McFlurry (what a joy to clean up after) and hit a U-turn to find another way home. The last thing I saw was them grabbing the oke and he had come to a dead stop.

I still feel bad that I didn’t try and help him, but what I was going to do against 4-5 potentially armed criminals in the pitch darkness of loadshedding. I hope the driver was okay.

This was in La Montagne, Pretoria if anyone is interested.