Two security guards are facing arrest after dishing out a brutal beating to a man who stole just a few jars of peanut butter.
The shoplifter was said to have been caught red-handed by the officers who then handed out their own brand of instance justice.
They forced him to hold onto a stairwell at the store in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and one guard pulls out an 18-inch wooden truncheon.
