Gran lets shotgun do the talking

**shooter** · 17-08-2010, 23:11

Mrs Louise Jacobs stands behind the security gate from where she shot and wounded an attacker who broke into her farmhouse. (Denvor de Wee, Beeld)

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...lking-20100817

http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuu...-boef-20100817

Wolfram Zwecker, Beeld

Johannesburg – “I’m going to shoot you,” 77-year-old Louise Jacobs warned her attacker. When he swung his firearm toward her, she didn’t hesitate and let her shotgun do the talking.

The shot, which wounded one attacker and made the rest run away brought an attack, which according to Jacobs’ husband, Peet, 81, started on the Friday already, to a stop.

“On Saturday morning I realised things had been stolen from my bakkie and that our one dog was sick. We gave him some milk and he was better after a while, but I knew something was going on,” Mr Jacobs said on Tuesday on their farm, about 12km outside Heidelberg on the Vereeniging road.

On Monday morning he went to the Heidelberg police station to report Friday night’s theft, when his wife phoned him and said she had just been attacked on the farm and shot one of the attackers.

“One of the policemen just said: ‘Go, I’ll organise everything.’

When I got to the farm, they were waiting for me. The police were here, members of the community policing forum and neighbours, the helicopter was in the air and they even had the dogs out here. The police really deserve congratulations for their level of service and how quickly they responded,” said Mr Jacobs.

'Enough is enough'

According to Mrs Jacobs, one of their workers first said she suspected there were strangers behind the house.

“I told her to jump over the electric fence and run, and I went to the bedroom to fetch the shotgun.

“The next moment I heard them breaking open the security gate at the front door with a pick axe. Then one of them broke the window next to the front door with a firearm and climbed in.

“He was still busy pointing the gun around when I shot – from here, from the security gate at the bedrooms. You can look straight at the front door from here.

“He shouted to the others to run and they left in a hurry. Then I phoned my husband,” she says.

“A little voice in the back of my head told me to ‘load the shotgun with buckshot’ the previous night,” said Mr Jacobs.

According to Thivhulawi Tshilate, police spokesperson at Heidelberg, a 33-year-old Zimbabwean suspect was apprehended in the area.

He wasn’t the wounded man.

The Toyota Venture in which the five other suspects fled was later found deserted in Rondebult at Dawn Park, Boksburg.

The police also found a trail of blood near the vehicle.

Mrs Jacobs’ fearlessness in the midst of danger also showed itself a few years ago. A snake was lying next to the dogs bowl, and when she tried to chase it away with stones, it spat in her eye.

“But that’s when I decided enough is enough and killed it with a rock before I went to the doctor,” she said.

**FrankH** · 17-08-2010, 23:19

"When I got to the farm, they were waiting for me. The police were here, members of the community policing forum and neighbours, the helicopter was in the air and they even had the dogs out here. The police really deserve congratulations for their level of service and how quickly they responded,” said Mr Jacobs."

Well done to the cops and especially Mrs Jacobs !! Her actions probably saved her life !

**BoerBok** · 18-08-2010, 07:39

Don't f*ck with Boeretannies. They know guns.

Well done tannie, SAPS & CPF!

**Speed_Freak** · 18-08-2010, 08:29

Sounds like what happened to my Woodwork teachers mom many years ago.

We were in class, when someone ran into the class and told Mr H something. He stood up, pale in his face and told us to pack up and get out the class as he had to go. We asked him what was wrong and he said his mom had been attacked.

A couple hours later he came back to school and was pale as a sheet. We hoped his mom was ok so we managed to get him to tell us what had happened.

His mom had in fact been in an armed robbery. While at home she heard a knock at her door. When going to answer it she was greeted by one by armed robber. He demanded she open the security gate to which she answered the keys were in her bedroom. He told her to go fetch them, to which she toddled around the corner to the bedroom. Now the tactical options are many in a case like this, one is call the police and wait, the other is just wait it out. But Mrs H was made of sterner stuff. She came back around the corner, while the Master Thief waited patiently in front of the security gate, with a side by side shotgun! Mrs H being the generous sweet old lady she was, let Master Thief have both barrels!

By the time Mr H had gotten there, the police were just finishing up cleaning up the mess left by Master Thief with a sponge and bucket :)

Beware little old ladies I tell ya!

**HdV** · 18-08-2010, 08:36

Originally Posted by Speed_Freak

Sounds like what happened to my Woodwork teachers mom many years ago.

We were in class, when someone ran into the class and told Mr H something. He stood up, pale in his face and told us to pack up and get out the class as he had to go. We asked him what was wrong and he said his mom had been attacked.

A couple hours later he came back to school and was pale as a sheet. We hoped his mom was ok so we managed to get him to tell us what had happened.

His mom had in fact been in an armed robbery. While at home she heard a knock at her door. When going to answer it she was greeted by one by armed robber. He demanded she open the security gate to which she answered the keys were in her bedroom. He told her to go fetch them, to which she toddled around the corner to the bedroom. Now the tactical options are many in a case like this, one is call the police and wait, the other is just wait it out. But Mrs H was made of sterner stuff. She came back around the corner, while the Master Thief waited patiently in front of the security gate, with a side by side shotgun! Mrs H being the generous sweet old lady she was, let Master Thief have both barrels!

By the time Mr H had gotten there, the police were just finishing up cleaning up the mess left by Master Thief with a sponge and bucket :)

Beware little old ladies I tell ya!

Beautiful story ! Whish there could be more of these instead of the usual " elderly folk tortured and murdered on theire farm " ones. We have so many of the latter in the news lately, surely there must be some specific driving force behind all of this.

**malcolmm** · 18-08-2010, 08:42

give that tannie a bells

**Wismit** · 18-08-2010, 09:26

The only thing I don`t understand so well is the following:

You will always find that the BG`s reside in one place and the farm that was targetted was +- 50km -300km away(if not further). Why was this farm targetted, I mean surely there are many farms closer to where the BG`s reside.

Secondly

I found that where more than one BG is involved, 99.9% of the time you will find that one BG reside in Tembisa, the second BG reside in Orlando, the third BG reside in Soweto the fourth BG reside in Ulundi Kzn.

Each BG`s reside in totally a different township and sometimes even province. I just wonder how do they get together and plan these things?
(Maybe there is a BG convention some where where they meet each other)

**Brendank** · 18-08-2010, 09:50

Priceless!! Pity she didn't get to give the lot a taste of LG...
She deserves a bottle of Bells never mind a single.

**Glocky** · 18-08-2010, 09:54

Well done to this tannie , Hail to the hail gun !

**Sean Murphy** · 18-08-2010, 10:11

The best thing to come out of this incident is that all of the newspapers are reporting with a positive self defence spin on the story. I suppose they know that everyone just loves a story like this and they would not dare try to put a negative spin on a little old lady winning against armed robbers trying to kill her. We need to get more shotguns in the hands of little old ladies.

Sean.