IT is said there is no honour among thieves and, perhaps, no shortage of humour either - at least of the gallows sort - if the bizarre case of suspected armed robbers who tried to pay homage to a dead colleague with a Harare street parade is anything to go by.
The tribute hurrah degenerated into dark comedy after the gang loaded Borris Mushonga’s coffin onto the top of a Toyota Raum and tried a bit of noisy fishtailing (a reckless car manoeuvre) in a bid to send their mate off with a flourish.
Yet no one had remembered to secure the fairly ornate casket and it soon crashed onto the road, scattering the 25-year-old’s severed remains on the pot-holed surface to the horror of his mother who had flown in from the UK.
A pastor would likely have declared "earth to earth, dust to dust" but not quite in that manner, surely.
It also emerged that the drama was linked to last Thursday’s road crash death of five people along Harare’s Simon Mazorodze road when their speeding vehicle burst a front tyre and smashed into an oncoming bus.
The five fatalities – who included the curiously lamented Mushonga - were, in fact, suspected robbers who had managed to shake off a police chase after robbing a woman they had given a lift of her mobile phone.
