{"id":73833,"date":"2017-10-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/73833\/bjok15-17\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:13:29","slug":"bjok15-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/17\/bjok15-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid these areas &#8211; crime victims warn of CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Vicky Field warned group members to be vigilant when <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/72274\/smash-grab-thieves-busy-cbd\/\" target=\"_blank\">travelling down Walter Sisulu Street<\/a>. This after a friend of hers was almost robbed there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73878\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/10\/Vicky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ms Field described how one man was tapping on the passenger window, another was trying to open the driver&#8217;s door and a third was standing at the boot with a crowbar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote-solid\"><p>The friend managed to escape and the robbers walked away as if nothing happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Monday morning, Reghard Botha reported witnessing an incident in front of Avbob in John Magagula Street. He said that the incident happened 07:30. One man kept the driver of a silver Toyota busy, whilst another stole his toolbox from the back of his pick-up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73879\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/10\/Reghard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Botha described the thieves as one wearing a hoody and one with braided hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/64189\/video-beware-criminals-cbd\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO &#8211; Beware of criminals in CBD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you been a victim? Send your story to <a href=\"mailto:jana@mobserver.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">jana@mobserver.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two warnings about instances of crime in the CBD was posted to the Middelburg Observer Facebook group in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[8276,2975,2120,9,8277,21966,8278],"class_list":["post-73833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-avoid-these-areas","tag-cbd","tag-cbd-middelburg","tag-local-crime-news","tag-dangerous-areas","tag-middelburg","tag-where-is-the-most-crime"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["avoid these areas","CBD","CBD Middelburg","Crime","dangerous areas","middelburg","where is the most crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73833","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=73833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}