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Post subject: Facing the world after blind man kicks your butt...
 Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 02:49 PM
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...is what a man in Germany is going to have to do after he gets out of the slammer!
| Quote: | Mugger in Germany foiled by blind judo expert Mon Sep 10, 1:25 PM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A blind judo expert astounded a mugger by pinning him to the ground after he tried to steal his cigarettes, police said on Monday.
The assailant, a 17-year-old man of Asian origin, spotted the 33-year-old, who police identified only as Emil E., at a train station in the southwestern town of Giessen and thought he would be easy prey, police spokesman Rolf Wellershausen said.
But what the attacker did not know, the spokesman said, was that his victim was a world-class blind judo wrestler.
The 17-year-old threatened the blind man, then punched him in the face, at which point the martial artist flipped him and held him down until police arrived |
Credit: Yahoo.com
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Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 02:52 PM
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... and this man after a 74 year old kicks his...
| Quote: | 74-year-old fights off mugger at mall Tue Sep 11, 1:03 PM ET
BAY SHORE, N.Y. - A tire iron-wielding man who police said was looking to mug a senior citizen probably thought he had found an easy target — that is, until the 74-year-old fought back.
Bruce Ferraro had no idea someone was following him as he walked out of a department store at the South Shore Mall on Saturday and got into his car, police said. But then a man pounded on Ferraro's window and demanded cash.
"Ferraro says, 'What, are you kidding me?' and he actually gets out of the car," Suffolk County Detective Sgt. Thomas Groneman said.
The mugger demanded Ferraro hand over his wallet, calling the Bay Shore resident an "old man" and threatening to hit him with the tire iron, Groneman said.
Instead, Ferraro grabbed the bar and the two fought, until the septaugenarian managed to snatch away the tire iron, police said.
Groneman said Ferraro did "a good job" of disarming his would-be assailant, though he would not recommend other people attempt such a brazen act of self-defense.
Without the weapon, the 32-year-old suspect ran to his car and attempted to drive away, police said. But the vehicle stalled, and the man got out of the car and fled on foot. Ferraro later helped police identify the suspect.
The man was arrested later Saturday at his home in West Babylon. Police charged him with attempted robbery and he was being held on $10,000 bail in Riverhead.
Ferraro's only injury was a scrape on the wrist. |
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Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 03:25 PM
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Infidel robbers! 
People should know by now that the elderly arent as helpless as we think they are!
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Post subject: Re: Facing the world after blind man kicks your butt...
Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 03:37 PM
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| Seamus wrote: | ...is what a man in Germany is going to have to do after he gets out of the slammer!
| Quote: | Mugger in Germany foiled by blind judo expert Mon Sep 10, 1:25 PM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A blind judo expert astounded a mugger by pinning him to the ground after he tried to steal his cigarettes, police said on Monday.
The assailant, a 17-year-old man of Asian origin, spotted the 33-year-old, who police identified only as Emil E., at a train station in the southwestern town of Giessen and thought he would be easy prey, police spokesman Rolf Wellershausen said.
But what the attacker did not know, the spokesman said, was that his victim was a world-class blind judo wrestler.
The 17-year-old threatened the blind man, then punched him in the face, at which point the martial artist flipped him and held him down until police arrived |
Credit: Yahoo.com
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A "world-class blind judo wrestler" still smokes |
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Post subject: Re: Facing the world after blind man kicks your butt...
Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 03:49 PM
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| DOC wrote: | | Seamus wrote: | ...is what a man in Germany is going to have to do after he gets out of the slammer!
| Quote: | Mugger in Germany foiled by blind judo expert Mon Sep 10, 1:25 PM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A blind judo expert astounded a mugger by pinning him to the ground after he tried to steal his cigarettes, police said on Monday.
The assailant, a 17-year-old man of Asian origin, spotted the 33-year-old, who police identified only as Emil E., at a train station in the southwestern town of Giessen and thought he would be easy prey, police spokesman Rolf Wellershausen said.
But what the attacker did not know, the spokesman said, was that his victim was a world-class blind judo wrestler.
The 17-year-old threatened the blind man, then punched him in the face, at which point the martial artist flipped him and held him down until police arrived |
Credit: Yahoo.com
Every once in a while there is a heart warming story that pops up on the news...
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A "world-class blind judo wrestler" still smokes |
Everyone's got their vices...
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