Karaoke Cops and not so Princely Music

Yesterday I got sent out on one of the worst stories I've ever gotten here, but it instead turned out to be fantastically funny. SAPS (South African Police Services) was giving away 40 cars to rural police units around the Western Cape. But before they did this, there was a brief speaking event interspersed with THREE different songs sung by individual police officers. It was without a doubt, one of the weirdest events I have ever been to in my life.

Even funnier was this woman who dedicated her song to the commissioner, then proceeded to absolutely butcher the song. She was actually OK through the first half, but then she just decided to go for it and wound up nearly breaking everyone's eardrums. I wish I had recorded her song, since it was about a 9.5 out of 10 on the Unintentional Comedy Scale.

What's even worse is now I can't even look at the police down here with a straight face. My mind just keeps drifting back to this event, which I think set the respect bar for SAPS back about 15 years.
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The police event also reminded me of another random horrible musical moment while I've been down here. A few weeks back I went out to Franshooek in wine country to do a story on Prince Edward who was in town to give out awards to all these kids. Before he did this they had a musical piece involving two kids playing a violin and a piano. The kid on the violin was so bad that even if I had been the kid's parent I still would have told them they sucked. It was really that bad.

Regrettably, since it was like a 15 year old kid, it doesn't rate as high on the Unintentional Comedy Scale. But it sure ranked high on the "Man am I embarrased for this kid" scale.