It's a sad, though all too common, story.  Joseph, our night guard is also an electrician and electronics technician.  Guy, our assistant, hired him to do the electrical work on a house he is building.  He gave him 150,000 F ($3,000) to purchase the rest of the wiring for his house and all the outlets and switches.  Joseph went to town, purchased these items, and hired a man with a poos-poos to transport them.  They were trying to cross the street in heavy traffic.  The man managed to get across, pushing the poos-poos, but Joseph was blocked for awhile.  When traffic cleared and he got across the street, the man, the poos-poos, all the wiring, the outlets, and the switches had evaporated into thin air.  150.000 F gone, just like that.  There is absolutely no recourse for Joseph.  It's a major loss for Guy.  Welcome to Cameroon.