Now South African’s has equipped itself with new technique to protect itself from thieves. According to media reports, a bank in Cape Town, South Africa, has installed its cash machines with pepper spray to deter criminals from tampering and stealing money.The idea is that spray incapacitates you while the cops come out. Unfortunately, they've also been known to incapacitate the poor bastards who install them by randomly firing capsaicin at them.
The technology uses cameras to detect people tampering with the card slots.Another machine then ejects pepper spray to stun the culprit while police response teams race to the scene.The extreme measure is the latest in South Africa's escalating war against armed robbers who target banks and cash delivery vans. The number of cash machines blown up with explosives has risen from 54 in 2006 to 387 in 2007 and nearly 500 last year.
Patrick Wadula, spokesman for the Absa bank, which is piloting the scheme, told the Mail & Guardian Online: "During a routine maintenance check at an Absa ATM in Fish Hoek, the pepper spray device was accidentally activated.
But it seems that banks may have to use some other ways to tackle criminals
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