"No my number is not working. I was coming from work one of these fine days, 20 June. When I reached Sao Paulo, at the round about, in front of banco BFA, a police officer had shot dead a certain young street vendor just in front of me, across the road and many people were shouting obscene words to the police. There was a big crowd of people and as I was pushing myself through the throng when some smart boy fished my telephone from my hip pocket."