Murder: when the only thing is to laugh

FOLLOWING the last post... sometimes the only thing people can do is to joke about it. How else do they cope?

It's amazing just how dark people's humour can get on crime scenes, even when they occur uptown. Coming to the rescue of police late one night a few years ago, some private security guards shot dead two gunmen.

"King Alarm a di real uptown police!" people taunted from behind the police tape. The policemen hung their heads.

Hijacker Stephen Fray was sentenced last week. The following clip, Can't Hijack Air Jamaica!, is actually by American comedian Mike Yard. It's also a year old but watching it for the first time Saturday night everyone laughed until it hurt.

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