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Probox drivers are a special species of ‘mad’

A Probox ferrying coffins along the Homa Bay - Mbita road

In Kenya, you can be guaranteed that the car in front of you is always a Probox. How people continue buying these vehicles on a daily basis still beats me.

I will never understand a man who walks inside a car showroom with his lovely wife and kids in tow and paces around the floor before standing in front of a Probox and proclaiming, “Oh, what a beauty! I’ll pay in cash!” I think such characters should be investigated for mercury poisoning coz clearly, there is something very wrong with them.

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