In two recent robberies in Brackenfell last week, one house robbery and one business robbery, robbers curiously got away with nothing.
In the latest incident on Monday night, two robbers awaited a resident from Protea Heights at his front door at about 23:00 in the evening.
“The 24-year-old man felt the robbers push something against his back and they ordered him to his bedroom where they made him lie down and tied his hands up with cable ties,” says police spokesperson Capt Erica Crous.
“They took his rings and watch from his body as well as his wallet and cellphone, but then for reasons unknown threw it back on the floor and fled the scene without taking anything else in the house.”
The man managed to free himself to push his panic button.
In an unrelated incident on Thursday an armed man entered Liquor City in Old Paarl Road at about 18:00 and held up the cashier.
“The two employees in the shop immediately fell to the ground. Seconds later a shot was fired into a wall after which the robber ran away without taking anything,” says Crous.
It is speculated that he robber accidentally fired the gun, got a fright and ran off.
“At this stage another man, unarmed and seemingly not an accomplice in the failed robbery, came into the shop, grabbed two boxes of gin and ran away. When the employees chased him he dropped the boxes.”
