My cartoon today was inspired by the metro police service actions from a few days ago - in particular the so called VIP protection unit, or more affectionately known as the blue light hooligans. Over the past few years, the behaviour of these units have made regular headlines - mostly thanks to harassment of motorists and the blatant disregard of the law.

The incident that led to this cartoon is perhaps the most bizarre yet. A UCT student, Chumani Maxwele, was arrested last week for allegedly flipping the bird at a blue light convoy, detained for a few hours without an official charge, interrogated regarding his political opinions and acquaintances and had his house ransacked by police officers. Now clearly there is a lot wrong here, and as this is all "alleged" (media speak for 'the facts are not really known but we'll give you enough to try and guess') we don't know for sure exactly what happened. What we do know is that the track record of these blue light speedsters are questionable to say the least.

But there is indeed a lot more to this story - and the deeper one delves the stranger it gets. It turns out the convoy was carrying none other than Jacob Zuma. Mr Maxwele insists he was unaware of this little fact. Maxwele also insists he didn't pull the finger, but in fact waved at the blue light brigade - sort of the same way you would wave away someone who recently discovered the internet, or email. Mr Maxwele also says a bag was pulled over his head when he was arrested.

There have been several incidents where vip protection thugs wearing black BMW X5s have harassed motorists and even forced them off the road, but this is the first time I recall that a jogger has been harassed, arrested and interrogated over his political views. Now come on, what on earth is a UCT student jogger armed with a wave that looks like a zap sign going to do to a few 150kg suits armed with guns? Finger them to death? Maybe that explains why they pulled a bag over his head...