Today, we have two stories about people who finally got to attend an event that they'd been

working toward for years, but in both cases, actually going to these events would turn out

to be the biggest mistakes of their lives.

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so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into our first story called The Evidence. On the morning of November 18, 2019,

54-year-old detective Moosey McKeezy stood in a long line waiting to get into a courthouse

in Iqapaw, South Africa. So Moosey was an investigator on a very violent robbery case that was

finally being tried today, even though the robbery itself had happened almost six years earlier.

Back in 2014, a group of armed men had stormed

into a couple's farmhouse in Iqapaw and brutally beat the couple before making off with a bunch of

electronics and jewelry and weapons and other valuables. And so Moosey and his team had eventually

caught and arrested these criminals. And in fact, they were even able to recover

some of the items that have been stolen. In fact, now, Moosey had one of those stolen items with

him to present his evidence at today's trial. Moosey had done this kind of court duty

plenty of times in his career, but today, he felt really drained. On top of his trial prep for, you know, this case, he'd also been working other active cases and also mentoring junior detectives.

And Musi was not young and energetic anymore.

He was nearing retirement age, and all these obligations were really starting to take a toll on him.

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