Monday - March 29, 2010

70-year-old fends off knife wielding robber with iron bar, guy comes back and so gets whacked again

AWARDED TO THE WOULD BE IDIOT ROBBER, ... belatedly

Would a normal, smart bandit come back? 

Bravo to the old fellow for downing this jerk.  Kinda sorry though that he didn’t stop his useless breathing cos we all know in a short time, the gremlin will be out doing it all over again.

The surprise here is that the guy defending wasn’t arrested too.  Maybe violating the gremlin’s rights or some such nonsense. 

This article originates in 2009.  I do not recall seeing it before or if I did, not in this form.  But it was listed in the Telegraph on line and I just thought it was good enough and even funny enough to post. And so I am.

A 70-year-old shop worker who was threatened by a knife-wielding robber fended him off by hitting him over the head with an iron bar.

Harbhajan Singh showed no fear despite being locked in the shop and having the long 12 inch blade waved in his face.
He was working behind the till of the Costcutter store when knifeman Deryk Traylen ran into the shop claiming to have a gun and took a customer hostage.

Traylen, 35, locked the shop door then went up to the post office counter and demanded money from Mr Singh’s son-in-law.
But the brave grandfather grabbed an iron bar from behind the shop counter, then crept up behind the robber and hit him on the hand to disarm him.
Traylen then pretended to leave but came back with a 12 inch knife, so the elderly shop worker hit him over the head.

“I didn’t have any fear, my daughter and family were in trouble and I had to protect them,” said Mr Singh, who has been nicknamed the Turbanator for his heroics,
“My aim was to disarm him so I hit him on the hand to make him drop the gun, but he came back with a knife, so I hit him on the head.”

There’s more to be found HERE

Posted by peiper     on 03/29/2010 at 05:53 AM   
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