Attacker shot dead as farmer fights back

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Before getting into bed, DB had just finished packing for a hunting trip in Pretoria that the couple were planning to take over the long weekend and so had a loaded 45 mm pistol by the side of his bed.

“It was instinct. I rolled on to the floor, screamed to my wife to take cover … by that time they were stabbing me already,” he said.

After wrestling one of the intruders on the floor, DB managed to free one hand, reach for his pistol and fire the first shot. It hit the first attacker in his groin area.

“He had enough [the first attacker] and bolted out of the bedroom into the yard,” said DB.
The second attacker continued the tussle with DB, who managed to shoot him in the chest at “point-blank range”.

He fired three or four shots into the attacker, but this did not stop the man, who was still trying to get the gun away from DB.

“By that time, I was bleeding profusely. I told my wife that she needed to do something … and then he bit me on my arm,” said DB, pointing to the bite marks on his left wrist.

Muffy looked around the room and found a lampshade. She hit the man on the head, but he did not flinch. “I think he was running on adrenaline at the time,” she said. So she hit him again. The man released his grip on her husband and fell to the floor.

A call to the paramedics and the police was made, but after waiting for what “felt like forever” in the “blood stained and upside-down bedroom”, Muffy, in order to save her husband, who was at this point struggling to breathe, decided to drive him to St Anne’s Hospital.
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http://www.witness.co.za/?showcontent&global[_id]=7094

:eek:

Very lucky guy.
 
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Good job

Before getting into bed, DB had just finished packing for a hunting trip in Pretoria that the couple were planning to take over the long weekend
and so had a loaded 45 mm pistol by the side of his bed.
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But what he was planning to hunt in Pretoria, I don't know? Blue Bulls?
 
koffiejunkie said:
Good for him!

How long before the first "it was a racist attack" comes along though? :sick:
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I think those attackers were/are racists;)

That farmer sure was lucky and his fighting spirit is admirable.

At least the story has a good ending - another scum bag bites the dust.
 
Wonder what drugs the attacker was on that 4 shots with a 45mm at point blank range and he didn't go down?!!! Those shots should have knocked him off his feet never mind still being able to come forward and wrestle for control of the firearm. More than adrenalin me thinks...
 
Maybe the fury of his families humiliation.

I hope this goes out as a lesson to the other senseless farm attackers.
 
sandmanm34 said:
Wonder what drugs the attacker was on that 4 shots with a 45mm at point blank range and he didn't go down?!!! Those shots should have knocked him off his feet never mind still being able to come forward and wrestle for control of the firearm. More than adrenalin me thinks...
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Ever seen the episode on this on mythbusters? Guns dont knock people down, people knock people down
 
Byrd said:
Ever seen the episode on this on mythbusters? Guns dont knock people down, people knock people down
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That's true. From the law of conservation of momentum, you'd expect the same force to hit you as the attacker - and you definately don't see people go flying backwards after discharging their pistols. Bullets knocking people
down are BS.
 
Byrd said:
Ever seen the episode on this on mythbusters? Guns dont knock people down, people knock people down
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True, but it was a 45, no less. They make big holes an drip your insides to shreds. Four of those holes in the chest should at the very least disable him. But he kept stabbing away? :eek:
 
koffiejunkie said:
True, but it was a 45, no less. They make big holes an drip your insides to shreds. Four of those holes in the chest should at the very least disable him. But he kept stabbing away? :eek:
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the couple were planning to take over the long weekend and so had a loaded 45 mm pistol by the side of his bed.
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HAH hahaha. There IS no 45mm pistol. That would be a large cannon actually. I think they meant a .45 calibre pistol. A potent weapon no less.

Chalk another one up for LAWFUL, RESPONSIBLE firearms ownership.
 
I just completely ignored the word pistol - I don't expect your average copy-the-news-from-the-wires-journo to know the difference.

That said, four 9mm bullets from my grandma's little Beretta pistol should still make it too painful to move, never mind keep stabbing.
 
These days you have no choice anymore. If you scream they cut your throat. If you do nothing they execute you anyway. Your only resort is to fight..to the death. This guy is a hero. He saved his wife and self.
 
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