Even more armed robberies in SA

[Saint in Paradise]

Three Greek World Cup players had money stolen from their hotel rooms and Chinese journalists

were robbed at gunpoint, Reuters reported today.

 

Another 11 tourists were robbed of passports and luxury goods while visiting a wine farm near

Cape Town, adding to several separate incidents against tourists less than 24 hours ahead of

the opening match between host nation South Africa and Mexico.

 

The incidents in the crime-plagued host country follow the armed robbery of Spanish and

Portuguese journalists at a lodge north of Johannesburg the day before.

 

http://msn.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10651202&ref=rss

 

Well a lot of people warned about SA and they were told they were being stupid, wonder if those

detractors have the guts to admit they were so so wrong?

 

Oh yes and the NZ Herald is nothing like as right wing as the daily fail.

 

 

:mad:

[skintsaint]

really surprised...didnt think there would be any sort of armed crime in SA while the footie was on...

[hutch]

Police and the banking community are concerned about an armed robbery at the ASB Bank in Grey Lynn, which follows what a senior bank manager has described as "probably the highest number in history" of such robberies across New Zealand last year.

 

Owen Loeffellechner, BNZ national manager security and fraud, said 84 armed robberies had taken place last calendar year.

 

"For the last nearly three years we have seen a trajectory upwards."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10635026

 

 

Maybe they would be better off going for a quiet weekend in the Lake District?