Proud Boer
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- Mar 5, 2009
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Having received some kind responses and some not so kind ones, I feel it might be opportune to respond to some comments. Firstly,I understand where some of those "doubts" come from and would like to say "no offense taken!"
I really enjoy this site and reading the various posts and enjoyed many of them.
I think it fair to say that not many people living outside South Africa understand the level of violent crime. My story here in Cape Town is not that unique,just over month ago there was a guy who shot 5 robbers with a 12 gauge pump! http://allafrica.com/stories/200901290502.html B.T.W. He is also a Boer!
I believe that the merits and facts of my incident have been well backed up by newspaper articles, photographs etc, however the style of my written account seems to have attracted (predictably) some less than kind responses. In the immediate weeks after the attack, my mental state would not have been of such a nature to write such a bravado story. As the dust has settled and my family out of shock, I feel that writing my account should be interesting and fun to read and that the perps should be mocked and diminished.
On the issue of the dead carjacker here are the facts. I have always used the word apparently when mentioning him and here is why:
After being shot, (as the police spokesman confirmed in the newspaper article I posted), from blood on the scene, excluding mine, two of them were clearly wounded by me) and have my neighbor witness him (and the others) flee to their getaway vehicle (the one shot in the chest, rather slowly and on all fours and helped by the getaway driver (perp no 4), all was quiet until 10 May. On 10 May the investigating detective came to collect my firearm as he needed it for ballistic tests as a corpse matching what had happened in my incident had pitched up at a police morgue in a different part of Cape Town. Bear in mind Cape Town is a city of 3.5 million people stretched out over more than 50 miles.
This carjacking linked murder spree had spread throughout the Cape Town peninsula and been going on for a year and now spread to the most affluent suburbs in Cape Town. If it sounds like my area is a slum, I would like to mention that it is in fact one of the most expensive suburban areas of South Africa, with houses starting (in US DOLLARS) in the range of $ 1,000,000.00. This issue had now become a political issue as the police appeared helpless. In the week of my incident the police had formed a national taskforce (Americans read "federal") and set up what they called a "war room" in Cape Town focusing on this issue. http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=9047
About a month later he brought the gun back to me saying that the Public Prosecutor (Americans read District Attorney) had decided that as my firearm could not undergo regular ballistics and that the corpse had been identified as a prime suspect in this spree of killing and had 4 warrants for murder against him, they were not pursuing my case further. This suited me fine as the public prosecutor, although he can use discretion, usually opens a case against the victim and a court case follows where innocence/guilt/partial guilt gets scrutinized. I was dreading this and was glad that in my case such a case has not happened. These cases often take years and their toll, irrespective of outcome. So the fact is this corpse will never officially be my victim.
Lastly, our constitution is SO liberal and gives our scumbag criminals rights which are insane. These scumbags get off the most horrific crimes on the smallest and irrelevant technicalities. In this case in which there have been 60 arrests so far, the public prosecutor is, in my opinion, taking no chances and only bringing to court that which will jail these scumbags for as long as possible and with as little chance of possible of allowing technicalities to mitigate their guilt. This case will still take a long time but at least bail has been denied to all 60. I will know more of my attackers at the end of this case which my family and I are following keenly. We are not holding our breath.
I can't recognize the faces of my attackers as my whole fight only took about half a minute and was at night even though all of fighting took place in a radius of no more than 20 feet!
We had a case recently of a perp who robbed a bank and was shot in the leg by a security guard. He escaped and was arrested later. The guard could not identify his face. Although the bullet was lodged in his leg, our constitution would not allow that the bullet be removed and matched to the guard's gun! This case dragged on for 4 years. The perp committed another armed robbery while on bail and was eventually jailed for that one. While in jail the state were ordered to remove the bullet, which after being cruel and unusual to remove to prove his guilt now needed to be removed (at taxpayer expense) to alleviate his new found discomfort.
The joys of a liberal state and pantywaist judges! http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=13&set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080425065436982C345169
I really enjoy this site and reading the various posts and enjoyed many of them.
I think it fair to say that not many people living outside South Africa understand the level of violent crime. My story here in Cape Town is not that unique,just over month ago there was a guy who shot 5 robbers with a 12 gauge pump! http://allafrica.com/stories/200901290502.html B.T.W. He is also a Boer!
I believe that the merits and facts of my incident have been well backed up by newspaper articles, photographs etc, however the style of my written account seems to have attracted (predictably) some less than kind responses. In the immediate weeks after the attack, my mental state would not have been of such a nature to write such a bravado story. As the dust has settled and my family out of shock, I feel that writing my account should be interesting and fun to read and that the perps should be mocked and diminished.
On the issue of the dead carjacker here are the facts. I have always used the word apparently when mentioning him and here is why:
After being shot, (as the police spokesman confirmed in the newspaper article I posted), from blood on the scene, excluding mine, two of them were clearly wounded by me) and have my neighbor witness him (and the others) flee to their getaway vehicle (the one shot in the chest, rather slowly and on all fours and helped by the getaway driver (perp no 4), all was quiet until 10 May. On 10 May the investigating detective came to collect my firearm as he needed it for ballistic tests as a corpse matching what had happened in my incident had pitched up at a police morgue in a different part of Cape Town. Bear in mind Cape Town is a city of 3.5 million people stretched out over more than 50 miles.
This carjacking linked murder spree had spread throughout the Cape Town peninsula and been going on for a year and now spread to the most affluent suburbs in Cape Town. If it sounds like my area is a slum, I would like to mention that it is in fact one of the most expensive suburban areas of South Africa, with houses starting (in US DOLLARS) in the range of $ 1,000,000.00. This issue had now become a political issue as the police appeared helpless. In the week of my incident the police had formed a national taskforce (Americans read "federal") and set up what they called a "war room" in Cape Town focusing on this issue. http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=9047
About a month later he brought the gun back to me saying that the Public Prosecutor (Americans read District Attorney) had decided that as my firearm could not undergo regular ballistics and that the corpse had been identified as a prime suspect in this spree of killing and had 4 warrants for murder against him, they were not pursuing my case further. This suited me fine as the public prosecutor, although he can use discretion, usually opens a case against the victim and a court case follows where innocence/guilt/partial guilt gets scrutinized. I was dreading this and was glad that in my case such a case has not happened. These cases often take years and their toll, irrespective of outcome. So the fact is this corpse will never officially be my victim.
Lastly, our constitution is SO liberal and gives our scumbag criminals rights which are insane. These scumbags get off the most horrific crimes on the smallest and irrelevant technicalities. In this case in which there have been 60 arrests so far, the public prosecutor is, in my opinion, taking no chances and only bringing to court that which will jail these scumbags for as long as possible and with as little chance of possible of allowing technicalities to mitigate their guilt. This case will still take a long time but at least bail has been denied to all 60. I will know more of my attackers at the end of this case which my family and I are following keenly. We are not holding our breath.
I can't recognize the faces of my attackers as my whole fight only took about half a minute and was at night even though all of fighting took place in a radius of no more than 20 feet!
We had a case recently of a perp who robbed a bank and was shot in the leg by a security guard. He escaped and was arrested later. The guard could not identify his face. Although the bullet was lodged in his leg, our constitution would not allow that the bullet be removed and matched to the guard's gun! This case dragged on for 4 years. The perp committed another armed robbery while on bail and was eventually jailed for that one. While in jail the state were ordered to remove the bullet, which after being cruel and unusual to remove to prove his guilt now needed to be removed (at taxpayer expense) to alleviate his new found discomfort.
The joys of a liberal state and pantywaist judges! http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=13&set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080425065436982C345169
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