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Original Post Date: 2008-06-28 Time: 14:00:01 Posted By: Jan
By Fiona Gounden
Criminals are singling out their targets in advance and marking homes and picking out certain vehicles before committing housebreakings and hijackings.
This is the firm belief of three Durban residents, two of whom had red “markers” placed in their front yards before being robbed.
A Shallcross fire-fighter, Adrian Govender, claims that after his home was broken into last week, he found a red plastic bottle in his front yard.
Govender believes his home was “marked” by criminals in advance.
“My domestic worker noticed this bright-red plastic bottle near my postbox the morning after the robbery. My neighbour told me he saw a black Honda Ballade driving slowly past my home the day before.
“Police have refused to link the bottle to the incident, saying it could have been children who were walking past.
“I am convinced that this was the work of criminals who planned their crime. It’s been thought for a while now that coke cans and any other red sign is the work of a criminal marking his target.”
A Durban North woman reported an incident to the police on June 3 in which she told of a piece of a red cardboard carton having been placed next to her house by the occupants of a “suspicious vehicle”.
“I was driving past my house when I saw a metallic blue Mercedes with two men inside it parked on my verge. They were chatting to my gardener. I stopped and asked them what they wanted.
“They grinned at me and said they were just asking for directions and drove off. Another motorist who witnessed this told me to be really careful because the police had issued a warning about a similar car.
“My gardener said they were not asking him for directions, but had said he must place the cardboard behind a potplant for ‘municipality reasons’. The gardener apparently believed them and so he put it there.”
Another Durban woman reported to East Coast Radio Crime Watch how criminals had bumped into the back of her car on June 6.
“I was coming up Pine Street to get back on the highway and had to stop at a red robot. A taxi was on my left, another car on my right and one was about three metres behind me. The one behind me started coming towards my car and then bashed into me. Instinct told me not to react.
“I looked into my rear view mirror and the two men inside the car just carried on staring at me, obviously waiting for me to get out of my car. Once the robot changed, I sped off and tried to get the registration number of the vehicle. The car was a really old, unroadworthy white Toyota Corolla with no front lights and no registration plates.
“The car must have had some kind of protection on it so that they do not damage the car they want to hijack because my car was not at all damaged.”
Police spokesperson Vincent Mdunge said they could not speculate that there was a trend and that these incidents were taking place often.
“These cases are being investigated and right now it is a bit difficult to say for sure that these red cartons and bottles were linked directly to the incidents. We are, however, asking residents and motorists to be alert and on the lookout for suspicious vehicles and occupants.”