A brave granny aged 69 defended herself and her property
against robbers, armed with a gun. When the men tried to get into the house, the granny threw a pot of oil at them,
flung plates and whatever she could to ward off the criminals. Throughout the ordeal, she screamed,
and as fate would have it, her daughter was
at home and said she would shot if they did not stop. Several of the would-be criminals fled the scene, and the granny was rescued from the scary ordeal.
What a brave woman, she knew that if they got into the
house, there would have been the real possibility
of them raping her daughter and who knows what else these sick perverted
criminals do.
This is South Africa and there
are so many people who are subject to criminal elements lurking around each and
every day. The crime statistics is high
and little is done to curb the offenses that have spiraled out of control. The
government and justice system do not have the resources or capability of
controlling crime in this country.
People live in fear all the
time.
SOURCE:
Granny fights
robbers with pot and oil
10 March 2016 at 17:23pm
By: Zainul Dawood
A Durban woman fought off a gang of robbers who tried to
force their way into her home, by hitting them with a pot and flinging glass
plates at them.
The men had been fleeing another attempted robbery in
Annet Drive, Reservoir Hills, and had fired a shot into the air early
yesterday, when Habeba Fynn, 69, opened
her door and security gate to throw something in an outside bin.
When she looked up
she saw a man running towards her.
She managed to step into the house, but before she could
close the door the robber was pushing at
it, trying to get in.
A second robber joined him, and then a third, armed with
a firearm.
“They were pushing the door. I held it with my right hand
and shoulder. With my left hand, I grabbed a pot with oil in it from next to
the kitchen sink. I flung the oil out of the pot on to them,” Fynn said.
Fynn, a retired clothing factory worker and grandmother
of two, said she screamed throughout the ordeal and hit them with the pot until
it slipped out of her hand.
Through the partly open door
she then hurled a few glass plates at the men.
One of the men ripped the collar off her nightdress, in
an attempt to grab her.
“Every time the men ducked the blows it bought me time to
hold on. I just let them have it. Eventually
my daughter got up and screamed that she was fetching her gun. The men
hesitated, but she repeated the bluff that if they did not move she would shoot.”
Two of the men ran into some bushes, but the third
remained at the door, daring Fynn’s daughter to shoot
As the other two exited a dense D’Moss area into
Clermont, a police dog caught one of them.
“If I had a stick I would have given them a good beating
and a lesson not to interfere with a woman. Reading
about crime daily I was fed up. They would not get into my house without
killing me. Now I intend getting a hockey stick to crack some skulls next
time,” she said.
“If my daughter was not off sick from work, I don’t know what I would have done. My daughter
would have been raped if they had got in.
Normally the dishes are put away in the
cupboard. I had made doughnuts in that
oil the night before.
“Visualising the
guy holding the gun is scary. God protected me. I beat the enemy. That’s what we should all do, then they will leave us alone,” Fynn said.
Annet Drive has been hit hard by robberies and police had
yesterday staked out a pathway through the dense bush separating Reservoir
Hills from 39th Avenue in Clermont.
Sydenham police spokesman, Captain Myhen Lazarus said the long hours police spent
waiting in the bushes had paid off.
“The arrested suspect was found with a revolver with five
bullets. He also had eleven bullets wrapped in a plastic bag and hidden in his
socks,” Lazarus said.
Colonel Enver Salie
and his crew from Sydenham police station arrested a suspected robber in
Reservoir Hills.Pictures: Gcina Ndwalane
SAPS members of the Sydenham police station arrested a
man soon after he allegedly robbed a woman in Reservoir Hills at gunpoint. From
left are Constable S’yabonga Nxumalo, Constable Lungile Pamla, Colonel Enver Salie,
Sergeant S’bu Nxumalo, Sergeant Bongani Dlungwana and police dog Rintie.
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