Loo seat stolen to sell for taxi fare
It appears whatever it is, it’s enough for a taxi ride from Chapel Street in Central to Helenvale.
At least that’s the reason for stealing one, a Helenvale man has admitted, after getting the idea when he answered a call of nature.
The ongoing mystery of the “toilet seat bandit” – or at least some of it – responsible for the theft of toilet seats from the Phoenix Hotel was solved recently when one suspect who admitted guilt was flushed out.
But that hasn’t quite put a lid on it because Johnnie Kekana – who was arrested with one of the hotel’s toilet seats in his possession on July 27 – confessed to stealing only one.
This raises the possibility of other bog bandits still on the run – and possibly on a roll.
The Phoenix had suffered three toilet seat thefts in an eight-month period.
After security footage was circulated on social media, hotel patrons helped identify Kekana.
In his guilty plea last month, Kekana, 61 – previously named Madikana by police officials – said in his statement to the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court that he had needed taxi money, and thought he could sell the toilet seat to someone on the street.
