Dead bank robbers

Good news!

Here’s the front page of today’s E.P.Herald, apparently 6 would be bank robbers walked into a bank, robbed it of an undisclosed amount of cash and attempted a getaway.

They didn’t get very far, 2 didn’t make it to the getaway vehicle, one wounded, the other surrendered.

The 4 that made it as far as the car, jumped in and they sped away. A high speed chase followed and members of our “elite Tactical Response Team” followed. (Report here.)To cut a long story short, the robbers opened fire on our boys in blue with an Uzi and other hand guns, net result;

Our cops 5, bad guys nil.

I rather enjoyed this quote from our National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele, at the end of January, he said the team would show criminals that “either dead or alive, it’s the end of the road for them”.

Here’s a video of the crime scene showing our ‘elite unit’ after the operation.

It was reported in today’s Mail and Guardian (an up country national, not readily available here) that our cops “shot dead 556 people last year, the highest number in 12 years.”  I’m delighted that our local boys are doing their bit to keep the national average up.

17 thoughts on “Dead bank robbers”

  2. So glad to see you do not suffer of the same bleeding heart wishy washy liberal nonsense we have here.

    Chances of those scumbos reoffending? Zero.

  4. Howzit Bravo, a deserved round of applause indeed. Do you have similar days in Moscow?

    Evening Ferret dead right 🙂

  5. Evening Janus

    I’m not sure if your comment is;

    a) Good, 7 less shooters on the streets

    or

    b) Having cops going around with guns and shooting vermin after they themselves have been shot at simply exasperates the problem.

    Which (if either) was it?

  6. Hi Soutie. Bit more complicated than that, here, but, in general, that would be a yes: Rule number one: Do not have a weapon in your hands in the sight of a policeman. Ever.

  7. Oddly enough, despite the fact that there was a civil war going on members of the BSAP (Rhodesia’s British South Africa Police) did not carry weapons, ordinarily. Of course if they were engaged in anti-terrorost activities (PATU), that was a different story. But the cop on the beat was unarmed. Thus I grew up in an environment, like that of Britain, where the police did not carry guns. When I left London to go and spend a year in South Africa in 1983, I remember feeling very resentful towards the SAP since they wore their side arms. It automatically raised my hackles. It was even worse when I went to live in the US where I felt that they were more likely to use them. Whereas I always felt comfortable and relaxed with Rhodesian and British police, I tended to regard these armed police men as a sort of enemy. The fact that they were armed made me feel as if they were just looking for an opportunity to harm or humiliate me and I expected them to be unhelpful. I thought of them as being testosterone filled dick-heads; purely because they had a weapon and I did not. It was not as if I was anti guns per se. I grew up with weapons. At the age of 9 I could take out my dad’s 12 bore shotgun and go shooting round the farm. In the army, my 7.62 FN was in my hands for weeks on end. I felt naked without it. No, it was the fact that the cops had weapons and I did not. I felt it wrong that they should hold power over me. I completely recognise that the police need to be able to shoot armed robbers and I am glad the police in Herald story were successful. But on the whole, I do not like the police carrying weapons unless they are in pursuit of armed criminals. I prefer the British and old Rhodesian way.

  8. Evening Sipu

    I too would like to live in a community as you describe in Britain and Rhodesia pre 1983.

    While we are at it wouldn’t it be nice to leave our front doors open and not have high walls to keep the scumbos (thanks Ferret) out.

    There would also be no need for large guard dogs (I’ve ridgeback / boerbul crosses) and I’d save a fortune on my rapid response security payments.

    We both know that it ‘aint ever going to happen, not in this version of the New S.A. anyway.

    Perhaps one day?

  9. Hi, Soutie, no, I recognise this, its just that even now, I regard myself as a law-abiding citizen and the cop as a civil servant. He should defer to me, not the other way round. But a gun gives him an authority by default. People find it odd when I reprimand a policeman for driving badly by blowing my horn or signalling at him in someway. Possibly I am asking for trouble, but I think its important to establish who is serving whom.

  13. Yep, if they live by the gun they risk dying by it. If we could just get rid of the “yooman rights” brigade so seemply in Britain!

  14. I second Ferret’s last. If someone threatens me with a weapon, he has only one right as far as I’m concerned – the right to get dead, as quickly as I might arrange it.

  16. Sheona

    Of course we have human rights, thankfully the right to steal wasn’t one of them!

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