Ashore in Columbo I found it quite an attractive place, it was much more civilised than Trincomalee. I only spent an afternoon and evening ashore as we had to be back on board by 10pm that night. We had a meal - the usual SEAC (Steak, Egg and Chips) and a look around the town, then finished up as usual in a bar. Whilst waiting for the boat to take us back to the ship we were all standing on the jetty when a police car drove up, a white inspector got out and a couple of native policemen, they were accompanied by a native rickshaw puller. These four looked around the sailors until the rickshaw man pointed out a couple of sailors- these men were bundled into the police car and driven away. Apparently they had been riding in the mans rickshaw (or more correctly, a bicycle garry) and instead of paying him they had thrown his garry into the harbour. This unfortunately happened a lot out east where drunken sailors were concerned, however Columbo was well policed and I for one was glad to see a couple of these hooligans caught, I never found out what happened to them.
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