Spur incident: An eye witness account of what really happened
"It is important to let people know that the video posted on social media only reflect a part of the truth as events prior to the video were not recorded."
A tornado of remarks regarding the incident that happened at the Texamo Spur in The Glen Shopping Centre on Sunday, 19 March have been posted on social media.
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The incident showed a man and a woman – both parents of children who had caused havoc in the playground –- yelling profane remarks at each other.
Since the incident, various eye witnesses have contacted the News stating that they saw what really happened.
Johan Lloyd and his wife were sitting next to the playground against the glass divider when the havoc started.
Lloyd said he noticed a large group of children playing next to him. Suddenly, one child grabbed another by the arm and hit her in the face with the back of his fist.
“The girl that was struck immediately ran out of the playground to her dad,” said Lloyd. “She was crying and holding her face.”
Her dad, who is believed to be a resident of Krugersdorp asked what had happened, and she told him she had been hit in the face by another child.
“The man then walked calmly over to the group of children his daughter pointed out,” said Lloyd.
“I heard him introducing himself to the woman sitting among the children and saying that he had a slight problem. He then asked the woman very politely to discipline her child because he had hit the girl in the face. He also said she should please just talk to her son because ‘it’s not on’.
“Then the woman got up and told him to f$%@ -off.”
All of this occurred before the people sitting next to the table took out their camera and started recording the incident.
The man then asked the woman why she had started cursing him. At this point, the customers at the next table took out a camera and started recording – and this is when the ordeal on camera started.
It is alleged that when the incident became heated, a waiter approached Lloyd and asked him to speak to the man, who was fairly angry. “I told my wife to go get the kids and got up to calm the situation,” said Lloyd
Lloyd can be seen intervening in the argument – he is the man with the red shirt.
“I told him to leave it because she was provoking him and he turned around to walk out.”
After the incident, the Spur’s management spoke to the man, who then left the restaurant.
“I feel that if both the customers had been more accommodating towards each other, they could have prevented the whole ordeal.
“It is important to let people know that the video posted on social media only reflects a part of the truth as events prior to the video were not recorded.
“This was definitely not a normal Spur family day,” said Lloyd.
Watch the video here:
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