Wednesday - November 04, 2009

Drunken yob got more than he bargained for when he challenges his betters.

The video runs three minutes, pretty frustrating at times cos it’s often hard to see what this article is describing. But you’ll still get the sense of things and what ordinary ppl are putting up with here, and especially in London.  Altho of course it isn’t restricted to that location.
See this LINK for the still photos.

This looks to have taken place around 6:20pm. Hell, I suppose any downtown city anywhere in the world can be a problem.  I get to feeling a bit guilty always hammering on about this sort of thing here in the UK.  I don’t mean to make it appear a unique thing to this culture and lord knows we have enough bad guys in the states. Right?  Maybe I need to read more USA based news and I’d find an equal amount. Ya think?  Cos honestly I have my doubts about that.  What I mean is, I doubt there’s the same kind of street crime in America on the same level.  Partly no doubt because so many are armed at home.  I don’t think we have the binge drinking all hours in the USA that they have here.  And we sure as heck don’t issue ASBOs, unless we do but under another name.  Our criminal justice system is surely just as fouled up. I know that.

Oh, btw ...  another poor soul was kicked to death this week by a gang of five men and two women, it has been reported.  That’s what I mean.
I have my doubts that kind of thing occurs in the USA with the frequency that it does here. If it happens at all and I’m sure it must given the nature of the criminal animal.

Caught on CCTV: The moment BBC presenter floors taunting yob with his karate expertise

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:41 AM on 04th November 2009

This drunken yob got more than he bargained for when he picked a fight with a BBC presenter who used to be an international martial arts champion.

Reporter Paresh Patel had been followed for half an hour through Manchester city centre by two youths, who subjected him to a barrage of abuse as he attempted to set up a live broadcast.

The North West Tonight journalist had been preparing a report in Sackville Gardens, central Manchester, when a group of drunken louts began harassing him and his cameraman Steve Capstick.
Watch the video below

He floored one of the unsuspecting thugs with a kick to the groin followed by a lightning-quick punch in the face.

The dazed victim can then be seen in CCTV footage scrambling to his feet just as police arrive to arrest the man as Mr Patel, dubbed the ‘BBC Bruiser’, calmly walks away.

A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said: ‘The accused persistently followed the victim and told him not to call the police and a woman poured a pint over him at one point. 

‘The other two defendants continued to follow Mr Patel to Princes Street, where the victim was punched in the face and threatened with violence. 

‘One of them picked up a bit of street furniture and also threatened the victim - he tried to walk away but still he was followed by the suspects. 

‘Both had been drinking and appeared very drunk. But what they hadn’t realised was that the victim was a black belt in karate.’

Mr Patel can be seen in the footage punching one of them in the face before kneeing him in the groin after being attacked as he planned a live broadcast from the statue of Alan Turing in Sackville Gardens, following Gordon Brown’s decision to grant the computer pioneer a posthumous apology. 

Sean Brady, prosecuting, told Manchester Magistrates’ Court that when Mr Patel phoned his studio, two of the group John Nugent, 22, and David McKenna, 27, thought he was ringing the police and started swearing threatening him.

At the sentencing of the pair, Judge David Hernandez said: ‘He defended himself, he delivered a blow. I say good for Mr Patel.

‘He had no reason to be subjected to that level of abuse and threat by you.’

The CPS spokesperson added: ‘The defendants claimed that Mr Patel has threatened them and told had them not to “mess with him” because he was a “Thai boxer” and that he would “sort them out”.

‘They insisted they were just having a laugh. And that they only picked up the chair so that he could have a sit down.

‘Even when they were shown the CCTV footage they came up with the same explanation.’

Gee, what patience the BBC guy showed.  If I were fortunate enough to have his skill and training, I would not have waited that long before turning on the damn punks.

Posted by peiper     on 11/04/2009 at 06:36 AM   
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