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I have been approached
to upload this web page
on crime stories to help
those good people who
are still sitting on the
proverbial "fence" of
indecision.
Many of us
go about our daily lives (as we should
if all was normal) submerged in the
chores and stresses of life's demands
and give little (serious) thought to our
vulnerabilities and threats.
The well
known fact that you can boil a frog in
water if you start by placing him in
cold water then slowly increase the
temperature until he is boiled and dead
is truly applicable to people, only
substitute the water with crime.
Crime has
been steadily increasing and our psyche
has slowly "accepted" this as normal.
Hearing
about crime has become boring!
UNTIL YOU
ARE A VICTIM!!!!!!
Now pretend
that the attacks you will read of here
is personal, what will you do?
The stories
which will be told here are only a very
small proportion of the reality in South
Africa.
The stories
are told as facts of the case and do not
pretend to be politically correct, for,
in essence, murder and rape are not
politically correct either!!! So if a
white thug attacks a black person we
hear and read about this in the news
media and so it should be for both
sides!
Today (29th July 2009) I heard a
firsthand report of a sixteen year old
white girl in JHB
being raped by a black man who held a
gun to her head, she was walking to
school with her boyfriend, he was told
to rape his own girlfriend in front of
this thug, but could not, so she was
raped and afterward he forced his penis
into her mouth!
How would
you feel if this was your daughter,
wife, sister, mother???
Again today
I was emailed this story...
what I have to relay didn't happen
on the Bluff BUT it can happen here
as well if people continue to stick
their heads in the sand.
My close friend, in her early
60's, whose husband died last
year, lives in Berea West in a
cul-de-sac and so she and her
neighbours thought that they were
relatively safe apart from some
petty crime. Most of them have dogs
on the property. On about the 5th
of June at approx 4am the robbers
smashed through her lounge sliding
door before she could react a gun
was shoved in her face and she was
told to NOT attempt to push a panic
button. The house was ransacked and
just about all of real value was
taken; including her motorcar. She
tried to conceal her house keys and
was promptly pistol whipped for her
trouble. Luckily her car was found 2
days later and was able to be
driven. Traumatised but determined
to not be driven from her home she
beefed up her security - beams all
round the house etc. Dogs sleeping
in at night instead of out. On the
24th of July at 4am she was awoken
to the sound of her alarm going off,
and despite this they were smashing
through her door AGAIN. She
promptly locked the interleading
door and hid with her dogs in her
bedroom. No trouble to them they
then smashed through her bedroom
window. Hit her over the head with -
we think a rock - and demanded her
car keys. She said that she didn't
have them and then the security guys
arrived and the 3 thugs bolted. She
has had 7 stiches in her head and
has now abandoned her house too
traumatised to stay any longer. I
thought that I would share this with
you perhaps it will resonate with
people and get them to join your
efforts of having street unity and
looking out for each other. So that
they can react when someone is in
trouble, the scumbags know that it
will take about 4-5 min for the
security to arrive so within that
time it is vital for neighbours to
be actively helping. We NEED to get
rid of the crime before its too
late.
Do you feel
safe in your home? do you realise the
level of force being used to gain entry
to homes? Have you spent the money on
the PROPER EFFECTIVE defences?
OR are you
waiting to see if this is really
happening, then rush out in a panic and
find the cheapest quote you can to
defend your home?
EVERY
SINGLE DAY in this country and very
close to you, we are being attacked and
brutalised and there appears to be no
effective justice or detterent?
Until COPS,
that is...
Join COPS now! click
here
Reported in the Highway Mail this week
(28th July 2009), two elderly ladies in
their 80's were attacked and beaten,
here is the story from Jason Van
Deventer the Reporter...
THEY came
in while their aged victims slept,
waking their prey by holding knives
to their throats.
It reads like a chapter from a
horror novel. But this was a
nightmare come true for two elderly
Waterfall residents when they became
the latest victims of violent
attacks on aged upper Highway
residents, on Monday afternoon last
week.
The two victims, aged 82 and 87,
were so traumatised by the attack
that they are moving out of their
Link Road home to Pinetown. For fear
of a further attack they did not
want to be named.
The attack by two thugs took place
while they were asleep in their beds
during the early afternoon. The
intruders broke into their home and
headed straight for the sleeping
women.
The 82-year-old woman said: "The one
guy, who was wearing a scarf, woke
me up and I asked him what he was
doing. He began pounding at me,
hitting me in the face and body. He
threw me off the bed and grabbed my
chest with his legs and it hurt a
lot."
The frail old woman’s chest was so
badly bruised she could barely talk.
Her face, beaten so badly that one
of her eyes is nearly swollen shut,
bears more purple and brown marks
than her own pale skin.
Her housemate, an 87-year-old woman,
was more fortunate as her attacker
said he would not touch her. "They
stole jewellery, a cellphone and a
few rand," said the older woman.
The 82-year-old who, despite the
more than a dozen bruises, smiled as
she described how her savage
attackers had left half the cake
they had taken from the home. "They
only ate half of it and left the
rest on the kitchen counter.
"We were locked into our rooms and
tried to pull out the burglar guards
so my housemate could climb through,
but we eventually found the spare
room key, and got out," said the
woman.
On Monday 27 July the 82-year-old
was admitted to intensive care due
to a punctured lung and fractured
sternum.
This brings to three the number of
brutal attacks to elderly Highway
residents in recent weeks. In a
brutal attack a 92-year-old
Waterfall man died after being hit
with a pipe. A 62-year-old Gillitts
resident was also abducted and
murdered.
Police are investigating a case of
house robbery and assault.
What
should be done to and about
criminals/terrorists of this nature?
We
see the astronomical rise in these
attacks, yet we, in a punch-drunk
stupor, sit back and hope it will go
away?
We
appear to be powerless, helpless,
defenceless, frozen dummies caught
in a ring of violence just waiting
for our turn? Are we frogs?
Or
what?
Send
your suggestions of how we can unite
against crime as a force with an
army of honest citizens ready and
willing to stand our ground, to
exercise our right to a safe and
secure life.
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