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DEVELOPING: Shooting rocks Pretoria shopping mall
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Drifter
Honorary Master
I never get how they start an article with "Cape Town - Shots were fired at the Grove Mall in Pretoria...." Fahrking far apart.
The author of the article is based in Cape Town
Drifter
Honorary Master
NSS.... still doesnt make sense.
Arthur
Honorary Master
It's an international convention to dateline news reports in the city in which the story is filed (ie where the story enters the news network and from which it emanates).
This is a good thing.
TheChamp
Honorary Master
What makes you think it's spectacular?
satanboy
Psychonaut seven
Sideshow Bob
Honorary Master
Because when shops in shopping malls fleece customers, they don't attempt to rob customers - they just do it?
nicbst
Well-Known Member
Maybe something to do with the safe stigma Pretoria East used to have.
Aaaaaah explains it, so crime is new to their hood. In KZN this is not newsworthy.
Yeah also wondering about the rocks.
I though of the Lyttleton Quarry explosion:
https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/156860-Bad-quary-explosion-in-Centurion!?p=2517848&posted=1#post2517848
Jewellery store owner shoots at robbers during Pretoria shopping mall heist
Pretoria – There were chaotic scenes at Grove Mall on Thursday morning when the owner of a jewellery store shot at a group of about five to seven suspects who robbed the store and got away with several valuable items.
"There is information that suggests the owner [of the store] did manage to shoot at the intruders and currently we suspect that one of the suspects was injured," police spokesperson Captain Daniel Mavimbela said.
Several glass display cases in the jewellery shop were broken and shattered glass was strewn across the store, which spilled out of the entrance.
Mavimbela said an undisclosed amount of jewellery was taken.
Police added that all of the suspects managed to get away.
Terrified shoppers scattered around the mall when shots rang out.
Two witnesses said they heard between four to five gunshots.
The crime scene has been cordoned off and the police’s forensic unit combed the store for evidence.
The rest of the mall is still open and its business as usual for shoppers.
PICS in link: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-during-pretoria-shopping-mall-heist-20171221
Pretoria – There were chaotic scenes at Grove Mall on Thursday morning when the owner of a jewellery store shot at a group of about five to seven suspects who robbed the store and got away with several valuable items.
"There is information that suggests the owner [of the store] did manage to shoot at the intruders and currently we suspect that one of the suspects was injured," police spokesperson Captain Daniel Mavimbela said.
Several glass display cases in the jewellery shop were broken and shattered glass was strewn across the store, which spilled out of the entrance.
Mavimbela said an undisclosed amount of jewellery was taken.
Police added that all of the suspects managed to get away.
Terrified shoppers scattered around the mall when shots rang out.
Two witnesses said they heard between four to five gunshots.
The crime scene has been cordoned off and the police’s forensic unit combed the store for evidence.
The rest of the mall is still open and its business as usual for shoppers.
PICS in link: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-during-pretoria-shopping-mall-heist-20171221
Aquila ka Hecate
Executive Member
satanboy
Psychonaut seven
but are the rocks ok?
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
I heard their families were shattered.
cr@zydude
Honorary Master
Are you allowed to carry guns in Pretoria shopping centres? I know Pretoria can be a rough place but really ...
For those wanting an actual update, seems the owner decided not to be a victim and shot at the robbers.
Confirmed he hit one, who left a nice trail of blood out in the parking lot. Hope the hospitals are on the lookout, or that he vreks (since dies is too polite to use on these parasites)
https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-during-pretoria-shopping-mall-heist-20171221
ETA: Posted same time as above poster
Confirmed he hit one, who left a nice trail of blood out in the parking lot. Hope the hospitals are on the lookout, or that he vreks (since dies is too polite to use on these parasites)
https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-during-pretoria-shopping-mall-heist-20171221
ETA: Posted same time as above poster
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Those silly little "no guns allowed" signs are not legal, and doesn't seem to worry the robbers, does it?
All they can do is use their right of admission to ask you to leave. Which would probably lose them thousands of customers.
supersunbird
Honorary Master
What would stop you? The non-existent metal detectors or invisible pat downs?