{"id":73922,"date":"2017-10-18T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=73922"},"modified":"2017-10-23T08:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T06:54:59","slug":"hilarious-video-thief-locks-victims-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/18\/hilarious-video-thief-locks-victims-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilarious Video: Thief locks himself in victim&#8217;s car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect, who is yet unidentified, used a remote to jam his victim&#8217;s car at about 15:30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/72274\/smash-grab-thieves-busy-cbd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smash and grab busy in CBD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But to his surprise, as soon as he opened the car door, jumped inside and closed the door behind him, all the doors locked automatically and he was stuck inside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/Ee7drGmOLwQ' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Video footage from bystanders show a large crowd of people gathering around the car and laughing whilst the suspect attempts to escape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/73833\/bjok15-17\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avoid these areas in the CBD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In spite of his his relentless efforts to get out of the car, the doors refuse to unlock. The thief eventually sighs in disbelief, accepting his fate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/56551\/sheep-slaughtered-in-cbd\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO &#8211; Sheep slaughtered in CBD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to nearby shop owners, the police later arrived and arrested the man. He was taken to the Middelburg Police Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middelburg&#8217;s dumbest thief locked himself in an unsuspecting victims car in SADC Street on Wednesday afternoon whilst trying to steal items out of the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":73923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[8325,8326,8327,8322,8324,21966,1762,1107,21990,8323],"class_list":["post-73922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-crime-caught-on-camera","tag-crime-hotspot","tag-dumbest-thief","tag-funny-video","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-cbd","tag-middelburg-observer","tag-mpumalanga","tag-stupid-criminals"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["caught on camera","crime caught on camera","crime hotspot","dumbest thief","funny video","middelburg","Middelburg CBD","Middelburg Observer","Mpumalanga","stupid criminals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}