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Subject: [OM] Re: Off topic: Another brush with South African crime
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:01:45 -0300
Better advice ............... leave ?

jh


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:33 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Off topic: Another brush with South African crime


> Better buy a semi-automatic weapon.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>>  -------Original Message-------
>>  From: Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>  Subject: [OM] Off topic: Another brush with South African crime
>>  Sent: Oct 13 '08 14:31
>>
>>
>>  Hi Guys,
>>
>>  This is very off-topic, but I just wanted to give you a bit of insight
>>  to our life here in Johannesburg, South Africa. On Saturday morning at
>>  03:00, whilst my fiancee and I were asleep, we awoke to an ungodly loud
>>  crash as our glass sliding door in the room next to our bedroom was
>>  smashed.
>>
>>  Two black men entered and made their way to our bedroom. It was the most
>>  frightful, awful few seconds as I was realising this happened while
>>  trying to wake up. Luckily, I could close our door in time, but it did
>>  not have a key, so we had to hold the door closed with our hands. We
>>  remained quiet / calm (well, on the outside, in anyway) amidst the
>>  threats (they wanted to have the door opened, which usually results in
>>  rape and death around here) and with us not giving way, were expecting
>>  bullets to fly through the door (and us) at any moment. For the second
>>  time, but somehow more acutely this time (compared to when we were
>>  hijacked in 2005 with two guns against our heads), I had to make peace
>>  with the fact that we will most likely die. This is not a good thing to
>>  truly, really experience. Don't think they kill swiftly here without at
>>  least raping the woman and torturing the men.
>>
>>  I think our quiet insistence made them unsure of what to expect when
>>  they open the door, and ultimately made them less insistent to enter.
>>  For a while, my fiancee held the door on her own while I found and
>>  loaded my (inherited) single-shot shotgun, which I would have had to use
>>  if they did enter, but which would have been a very big problem since
>>  there were more than one of them, and I had one shot at a time. I am
>>  glad it never came to that, and ultimately they left, but not before
>>  taking what they pleased from my house, most expensive of which were two
>>  Apple Powerbook 17" computers. I cannot explain the gut-wrenching fear
>>  we experienced as two helpless people trapped in their bedroom with
>>  violent barbarians literally pushing against our body strength to come
>>  in and have their way with us. People see things like these in the
>>  movies, and they think they will be rambo, but wait until you are in
>>  such a situation.
>>
>>  I am shocked anew at the complete disregard here for life and property
>>  in the South African (and, very often, the rest of African) culture.
>>  This is not a racist statement, it is a statistical observation based on
>>  me being subjected to at least eight acts of crime in the past seven
>>  years. There is no attempt at subtlety, they break in and break and do
>>  as they wish - as if it is their right to do so.
>>
>>  The continuing violent crime against the white minority here is
>>  tantamount to genocide, it seems to be getting worse and worse. Some say
>>  this is society is now the product of the Apartheid-era undoings, but as
>>  a young white South Africa who had absolutely nothing to do with that, I
>>  am still subjected to this barbarism. You face an enemy who does not
>>  reason, does not feel, and has nothing to lose - an animal.
>>
>>  To give you context, we live in a town-house complex with electrical
>>  fencing around, and guards who patrol every hour. Yet, they directly and
>>  easily came to us in this way. And we are just average people, and
>>  people on average die when this happens - and it happens daily.
>>
>>  Anyway, I know there aren't any other South African members on this
>>  list, but wherever you are, I would not wish this experience upon my
>>  worst enemy. If you live in the sort of place where you don't need to
>>  create a prison for yourself, please go out and have a safe,
>>  incident-free evening walk for us over here...
>>
>>
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