Times are hard, but while many people continue to look for jobs and choose to live an honest life, others would rather make quick money by robbing and terrorizing their communities. A lot of them start small, like going into people’s homes when no one is around, up until they learn to handle guns and get involved in CIT heists, hijacking, and business robberies.

In a video that has gone viral, an old woman who lives at Hammanskraal in Tshwane woke up in the middle of the night only to find her door wide open, yet she closed it before she went to bed. When she went to close the door again, she found her furniture outside and two thieves sleeping on her doorstep.

She then called her neighbor to come and witness what was happening in her yard. She then told her neighbor that the thieves thought she was not home for the Easter weekend, and sadly for them, she tricked them and poured something in the yard to endure that should anyone try to break in, they immediately fall asleep.

The public believes that this is the best security system to keep thieves away from people’s homes, that when they wake up they should find themselves behind bars instead of mob justice. They add that taking the law into one’s own hands works better if it is to help the police catch criminals.

Some say that most thieves use muti to make their victims fall asleep and they wake up to an empty house in the morning. However, if the thief does not use the muti correctly, they end up hypnotizing themselves and being the ones that fall asleep.

South Africa is full of surprises. One would think that these things are staged. Whatever the case, we can only hope that the thieves are behind bars and that they will pay for breaking into people’s homes.