How’s this for a seriously cool pensioner – an elderly woman decided to take matters into her own hands after being accosted by two thieves in St James (near Muizenberg) yesterday.
Although probably not the coolest granny in Cape Town, 72-year-old Yvonne Viljoen is right up there after her brave decision to chase down the pair of thieves who snatched her bag after first attempting to relieve her of her necklace.
It started with Yvonne being confronted by two well-dressed ‘gentlemen’, who asked her if she wouldn’t mind handing over her necklace to them. They then pointed to her bag and proceeded to tug it off her shoulder – her response being a swift kick to the stomach of one assailant. The man momentarily lost his balance and the pair bolted away with the bag, but Yvonne just wasn’t having it.
Fortunately our cool pensioner is an active swimmer and cyclist, and she gave chase. The pair attempted to hide but she found them cowering in a tiny alleyway, and the chase continued. By now a passing motorist had become involved and a group of men passing by pointed out the new hiding place of the thieves – in the bathing boxes at St James beach.
Having nowhere left to run, the thieves were caught and taken to Muizenberg police station by the Mountain Men, where they were charged with robbery.
Well done to Yvonne for standing up to the thieves and to everybody who helped out. Age ain’t nothing but a state of mind.
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Brave but dangerous
May they rot in jail! They got more than they bargained for!
Three cheers for Yvonne and the mountain men!
She deserves a medal brave lady!
Was the bag worth a limb or life?
I chase one of on cams bay beach too, even he had knife in his hand. He was shocked but I’m just was angry Russian U0001f621
Well done u young bag
We have our own Madea SA……Don’t mess with our Gramz
Super cool granny! 😉
Well done. What a brave lady.
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Hope they go to jail for a long time. Well done to the lady concerned.
Good hope they stay in jail for years
Wow! Brave lady.
Sammy Sammy
What pluck & courage. Glad she wasn’t hurt and glad those men were arrested!
You go girl
Love cool granny’s U0001f618U0001f618U0001f618U0001f618
Glad she is safe. 72 and ready to take on snatchers, you go granny.
Everyone has had enough well done Gran whoever you are!
well done
Good story for a change.. Well done granny
Fantastic!! Go girl Go!!!
Wow, good for you granny, will show them us granny’s not as useless and feeble as they might think!!
Go granny! I want to be like her when I grow up.
So often thieves think that pensioners are a walk over…….WELL DONE to Yvonne for showing them otherwise!!!!!!!!!…:)
Well done Yvonne, you are one very brave lady & granny.
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Patricia McAuley Flynn this is you
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way to go Gran xx
You are sooooo brave lady!!!!!! I am very proud of you!!!!
What a woman … this is the best news i’ve read in a long time!
Well done Yvonne
Give that girl a Bell’s.
Show those sleg donners ouma
No Dan…I wasn’t d granny that chased them down….I’ll see you this morning U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f604U0001f604
Well done. U Go Girl
Welldone Granny! Please be careful
What a woman, well done to you !
Now there is a woman after my own heart ! Pity she didn’t have the opportunitiy to go for the nuts.
Such a brave lady!! Well done!!
Incredible Mr Zuma !