{"id":21489,"date":"2014-11-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/21489\/one-man-two-women-three-thieves\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T07:15:40","slug":"one-man-two-women-three-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/13\/one-man-two-women-three-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: One man, two women, three thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 7 November, the man entered the premises with his two female henchmen.<\/p>\n<p>The man spotted an unmanned cell phone behind a counter, where neck chains for spectacles are kept.<\/p>\n<p>While he was apparently looking for a neck chain, the women kept counter staff busy.<\/p>\n<p>When no one was looking he snatched the phone, placed it in his back pocket and walked out, followed by the women.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Osman says the theft was effected in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n<p>They were however all caught on CCTV camera and Mr Osman released their photos to warn other businesses of their modus operandi.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5hh_Y5Sgjk4' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>He says they dress well and are very articulate, but definitely foreign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man and two women are operating a theft rink in Middelburg and their latest victim, Mr Ally Osman, of Osman&#8217;s Optometrists, say they are so slick, if it wasn&#8217;t for CCTV footage, no one would ever suspect them of a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":21490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}