This is what it has come to - while two would-be robbers lay dying in the street outside a Joburg restaurant this week, their potential victims looked on and laughed.
The instant justice dealt out to the gangsters, and another of their comrades also shot dead inside the restaurant, was greeted by cheers not only in crime-ridden Gauteng but all over the country, as citizens cried "Enough!" and got ready to take on their tormentors.
But the police warn people not to take the law into their own hands. Gauteng police spokesperson Director Govindsamy Mariemuthoo says: "People can't be a law unto themselves.
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"We don't want this kind of vigilantism, we don't want mob justice. The police are there, phone the police. They will come."
They died slowly. We all stood and laughed at the f**kers This week:
A police reservist who was a patron at the Buck & Hog pub in Emmarentia on Thursday night pulled out a gun and opened fire as a gang of three armed robbers were robbing and pistol-whipping customers. One robber died instantly inside the restaurant and the other two collapsed in the street outside.
Beeld newspaper quoted one of the patrons as saying: "They died slowly. We all stood and laughed at the f**kers."
On Wednesday, Pretoria resident Frans Jooste stopped a hijacker in his tracks |by ramming his car into the man. He then pinned him to the ground after the suspect and an accomplice had apparently overpowered a woman and stolen her car. Jooste told Beeld that, as he stood guard over the injured thief, a crowd gathered and people wanted to beat up the criminal. "People are simply gatvol (fed up) with crime in the country and we will do anything to stop criminals," said Jooste.
Also on Wednesday in Waterkloof, Pretoria, police reservist Waldo Minny and his reservist friend Ria Jacobs chased a burglary suspect who fled the scene in a black BMW.
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