Originally Posted by halfpint

In the 17 or so years I lived in Florida In South Africa I got mugged and had a knife pulled on me by four guys I saw countless shootings both fatal and non fatal. One of my school friends is in a wheelchair after him giving his keys to car jackers and they still shot him in the back. My mum had her purse taken from her while in a supermarket at the checkout.

We had a guy on the run from the police run through our back garden with a rifle which he started shooting with at the police.

When we first moved over there we had suitcases in the hall way in the house which we were moving into. They got stolen..

My dad hated guns but ended up buying one

We had bars on the windows

We had a bread slicer stolen from our kitchen

I could go on with my older brother finding a decomposed body in the veld ( open ground/bush) and one of my friends having his face stomped on in Hillbrow

It was a very violent place to live but I still miss it for some reason ..Shame they cant get their act together and stop all the killings and violence

Also forgot to mention our car being smashed up along with 3 other cars by some idiot drunk driver