CRIME

Johannesburg - Vehicle manufacturer Daimler Chrysler South Africa's chief executive officer Trent Barcroft was in hospital after he was shot at during a robbery in Midrand, Gauteng police said on Wednesday.

"He was with his wife, who was unharmed. He was shot in the stomach... the attackers took jewellery, cellphones and the wife's handbag," spokesperson Captain Kym Cloete said.

The two were on their way home when the attack happened on Tuesday.

According to an Eyewitness News report, a vehicle knocked Barcroft’s car from behind. When he got out to swop details with the other driver, he was shot.

No arrests had been made.

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The Rambo Granny of Melbourne, Australia


Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when
two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the
unsuspecting ex-cons down... And shot off their testicles.

"The old lady spent a week hunting those men down and,
when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special
way," said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp.

Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the
gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be:
"Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God."

Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost
both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava
opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former
prison cell mate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up.

The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas' testicles to kingdom
come, but doctors managed to save his
mangled penis, police said. "The one
guy, Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said
he won't be using it the way he used to," Detective Delp told
reporters. "Both men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think
they're just happy to be alive after what they've been through."

The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her
granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two
knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row.

"When I saw the look on my Debbie's face that night in
the hospital, I decided I was going to go out and get those
bastards myself 'cause I figured the Law
would go easy on them,"' recalled the retired library worker.
" And I wasn't scared of them, either - because I've got
me a gun and I've been shootin' all my life. And I
wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning
one."

So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and
Debbie's description of the sickos, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days
prowling the wino-infested neighbourhood where the crime took place till she
spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel.

"I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a
picture of 'em anyway and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as
hell, it was them," the oldster recalled...

"So I went back to that hotel and found their room and
knocked on the door, and the minute the
big one opened the door, I shot 'em right square between the legs,
right where it would really hurt 'em most, you know. Then I went in and
shot the other one as he backed up pleading to me to spare him.
Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in."

Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to
deal with the vigilante granny. "What she did was wrong, and she
broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in
prison," Det. Delp said, "especially when 3 million people in
the city want to nominate her for Mayor."

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Brilliant Granny, unfortunately more and more people feel the only way to get proper justice is take the law into their own hands.

Robbers pepper-spray sleeping baby


Durban - A Durban family were shocked when robbers pepper-sprayed their sleeping 4-month-old baby after invading their home during an armed robbery.

Brenda and Allen Lockyear and their two children had only recently returned to South Africa after living overseas for 11 years, reported the Daily News.

They were staying with Lockyear’s parents, Pam and Des Naudé while their home was being renovated.

On Saturday night, while Allen Lockyear was away in the UK on business, robbers entered the home, pepper-spraying the aged family dog until it passed out.

One of the robbers walked up to Brenda Lockyear and pepper-sprayed the baby, who was asleep in his mother’s arms.

The men also pointed a gun at the couple’s other 3-year-old daughter.

“The baby was screaming with pain and he could not breathe. By this time two more suspects appeared. One of them cocked the gun and placed it to my husband’s head. He too was repeatedly pepper-sprayed,” said Pam Naudé, the mother of Allen Lockyear


“They had no right to harm him [the baby]. That makes me very angry. Crime is out of control. It is getting worse and worse every day. My son [Allen] came back because this is home,” Naudé said.

“These guys were professionals. They seemed to know the layout of the house and where all the dogs were kept. They ransacked the entire house.”

Goods worth more than R350 000 were stolen and packed into Naudé’s car with the personalised licence plate, Gogo1 ZN.

Both children needed medical treatment.

Naudé said her son returned to South Africa the next day and said he would give his home country one more chance but should there be another incident, he will leave as soon as possible.

Farkin stupid why did they return to this land of criminals in the first place...(td)

US issues SA crime warning

The warning was released in a document by the US state department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security.

It states: "Violent and confrontational crime is a major concern [in South Africa]. Such crimes include home invasion robberies, burglaries, car-jackings, street muggings, smash-and-grabs, organised attacks on commercial and retail centres, bombings of ATM's, as well as attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles and personnel."

The report warns visitors that South African criminals do not hesitate to use lethal weapons and that townships should be avoided.

Can't believe these Yank's saying this ? zuma said that SA is safe !!!!!