South Arican celeb tells of 'good robbers'

Yup people - South Africans have been reduced to thanking their attackers for not killing or harming them. It's a sick world we live in. BTW Riaan - sounds like an inside job to me - just saying....

Johannesburg - Riaan Garforth-Venter, better known as the Nutsman (Handyman) thanked two armed robbers on Sunday morning for being such good robbers and not hurting him and his wife.

The armed men broke into the house Garforth-Venter shares with his wife, Michelle, in a security complex in Bryanston at about 01:30 on Sunday morning. They climbed through the window of the nursery where the couple's eight-month-old son, Rainn, was sleeping.

One of the robbers found Garforth-Venter on the ground floor where he was working on his laptop while the other woke up his wife in the bedroom.

"He held a pistol against my head and said: 'Keep quiet or else I will kill you.' When we came into the bedroom, the other man held a pistol against Michelle's head. They tied us up with a belt and ties and made us lie down on the floor."

He said little Rainn slept through the whole drama.

'Please don't hurt us'
"We remained calm the whole time, co-operating with them and told them they can take what they want.

"I lay there and looked at my wife and wondered if it was the last time that I would see her. You lie there and wait for the gunshot and think this is it. I told them: 'I love my wife and child, please don't hurt us.'"

According to him, the men picked up Michelle and put the pistol against her head while forcing her to open the safe, from which they took a revolver, money and jewellery.

They also took cellphones and laptops.

Garforth-Venter said one of the robbers said to him: "I see you have a lovely son, don't do something stupid so that he grows up without parents."

When the robbers were finished, they switched off the light and said the couple should not move for 15 minutes.

"When they went out, I told them: 'Thanks for being such good robbers and not hurting us… don't kill people. It is not necessary to kill people.'

"I think we were lucky to have gotten such good robbers," he said.

He praised the Randburg police on Wednesday for their quick reaction and said police officials were on the scene within three minutes.

Police spokesperson Warrant Officer Johannes Maja confirmed the incident on Wednesday and said no one had yet been arrested.

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