{"id":151356,"date":"2017-01-18T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=151356"},"modified":"2017-01-18T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T12:31:30","slug":"watch-pepper-spray-alarm-sends-robbers-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/151356\/watch-pepper-spray-alarm-sends-robbers-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Pepper spray alarm sends robbers running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pepper spray alarm thwarted a group of robbers who broke into a Botha&#8217;s Hill shop\u00a0in the early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third time robbers activated the alarm and were forced to retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Morne Bothma, owner of H20, a store that sells water purifiers,\u00a0said robbers cut through the\u00a0store&#8217;s front glass on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage shows the men crawling along the shop&#8217;s floor for several minutes before setting off the Compusafe pepper alarm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the third time the alarm has saved us. Every time they get in and trip the alarm, the pepper spray sends them running,\u201d\u00a0Bothma said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shows the men scattering as a cloud of noxious gas\u00a0fills the room. They manage to steal a cash drawer during their hasty retreat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur computers were saved because they are the usual target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said police were investigating.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JhMzKoN-IcE\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/watch-robbers-thwarted-by-pepper-spray-alarm-again-20170118\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/148525\/watch-how-criminals-get-past-your-houses-security-sensors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch how criminals get past your house\u2019s security sensors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pepper spray alarm thwarted a group of robbers who broke into a Botha&#8217;s Hill shop in the early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":95195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-151356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151358,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151356\/revisions\/151358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}