Subscribe to our newsletter. J ohannesburg, South Africa is well known to be the vehicle hijack capital of the world. Small wonder then that a number of urban legends have grown up around this phenomenon.
Hijackers operate in the city, the suburbs and the rural areas.
This particular legend is about a woman driving home to her smallholding at dusk. She decides that she is not going to stop for anything but also realises that she cannot ride over the body in the road. Without slowing down she swings the 4X4 into the long grass at the side of the road and drives home as fast as she can. When she arrives home she immediately calls the police to report the incident. As luck would have it there is a police patrol in the immediate vicinity and within minutes they arrive to escort the woman to the scene of the alleged ambush.