If the Government won’t protect you, locals will!

The Herald reports:

The owner of an Auckland watch shop that was targeted in an attempted daylight smash and grab says the men who fought off the thieves are heroes.

A group of men, one armed with an axe, started “attacking” the window of About Time in Remuera around 4.20pm on Monday.

The owner of the store, Rebecca Alexander, said she was at home at the time of the incident but was on the phone to her husband who was at the store.

“I heard our office manager screaming, then I heard the breaking glass and I thought ‘oh dear we’ve been done again’,” she said.

Incredible footage of other store owners and locals who took on the offenders in an effort to thwart their escape has emerged.

“We had a couple of heroes, the man from the kebab shop happened to be cutting up carrots with quite a substantial machete-type knife – he rushed out and started attacking them or the car,” said Alexander.

Co-owner of Pro Consult Stuart Hobbs also ran down and picked up a sign to defend himself, he can be seen in the footage bailing the group up behind some stairs before following them to their car where he rammed them from the passenger side.

Good on them – they are heroes.

Another man can also be seen hitting the car.

“That was the only thing I could defend myself with because these three hoods were armed with hammers and axes, so I charged them and I think they got the fright of their life actually and they started to run and I just kept running after them,” said Hobbs.

“I think you know I’ve got the right to protect my community, I think I should do that and I think that if people can get together and not put up with this sort of thing, we’re going to be a better society for it.”

If the Government can’t protect you, then your community needs to. Absolutely.