This is in from a report last week, even the muggers know good technical apparell when they see it! So the clear moral of the story is to go do your outdoor shopping at Mr Price Sport.
"Mountain hikers mugged at Maclear's Beacon TM today 8rh August
More bad news is that the Muggers are still active on the mountain.
Today at about 0930 Doreen and Mike Scott were robbed by 2 knife
wielding young black men roughly 100m from Maclear's Beacon.
They were on their way back from the Beacon and had just descended
through the small rock band and were on the path to the Cable station,
when they heard runners behind them. Before they could do anything the
one man had a knife at the side of Mike's stomach and was grabbing his
camera bag. The other one ran past and held another knife above Doreen's
head and ordered her to remove her clothing by shouting "Cape Storm" and
pointing at her anorak and jacket.
They stole all 3 layers of Doreen's Cape Storm clothing, leaving her
standing in her Bra in a freezing cold wind, and took her watch,
cellphone, and ripped her wedding ring brutally off her finger. The man
with Mike took the camera, watch, woolly hat and anorak, and food from
his pack plus his big folding Bush saw, which was more impressive than
the kitchen knives they were threatening with.
Mike managed to keep his pack when the Mugger saw the other stuff in it
was old, and when they ran off back to the rock band where they must
have been hiding, they dropped Mike's anorak so that he could recover
it.
Mike and Doreen ran back to the Cable station warning other hikers to
turn back, and alerted the Station attendants to make contact with the
Police, who were parked at the Lower Station. They hoped that if they
could get the Police Chopper in the air fast enough they could arrest
the men. Mike hopes the Police have the luck to be able to catch the
thugs, and says he and Doreen were lucky that it wasn't worse, but it
was still a most unpleasant and upsetting experience"
More bad news is that the Muggers are still active on the mountain.
Today at about 0930 Doreen and Mike Scott were robbed by 2 knife
wielding young black men roughly 100m from Maclear's Beacon.
They were on their way back from the Beacon and had just descended
through the small rock band and were on the path to the Cable station,
when they heard runners behind them. Before they could do anything the
one man had a knife at the side of Mike's stomach and was grabbing his
camera bag. The other one ran past and held another knife above Doreen's
head and ordered her to remove her clothing by shouting "Cape Storm" and
pointing at her anorak and jacket.
They stole all 3 layers of Doreen's Cape Storm clothing, leaving her
standing in her Bra in a freezing cold wind, and took her watch,
cellphone, and ripped her wedding ring brutally off her finger. The man
with Mike took the camera, watch, woolly hat and anorak, and food from
his pack plus his big folding Bush saw, which was more impressive than
the kitchen knives they were threatening with.
Mike managed to keep his pack when the Mugger saw the other stuff in it
was old, and when they ran off back to the rock band where they must
have been hiding, they dropped Mike's anorak so that he could recover
it.
Mike and Doreen ran back to the Cable station warning other hikers to
turn back, and alerted the Station attendants to make contact with the
Police, who were parked at the Lower Station. They hoped that if they
could get the Police Chopper in the air fast enough they could arrest
the men. Mike hopes the Police have the luck to be able to catch the
thugs, and says he and Doreen were lucky that it wasn't worse, but it
was still a most unpleasant and upsetting experience"
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