Thief in hospital after karate school stick-up

A feckless stick-up man chose the wrong target when he was beaten and hospitalised in an attempted robbery of a karate school in Bucaramanga in north-western Colombia, police said.

"The man entered the academy with a firearm, but could not intimidate the dozens of students, who fortunately reacted and disarmed him," said Colonel Julio Cesar Santoyo, police commander in the province of Santander.

- AFP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/08/2027499.htm

Hehe, thats for all those people who say that you`ll never use karate.......

Interesting that the response from the Colombian police is so different to what our police would say.


Mick

Mugger foiled by blind judo expert
Posted Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:42pm AEST

A blind judo expert astounded a mugger by pinning him to the ground after he tried to steal his cigarettes, German police say.

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 south-western 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.http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/11/2029775.htm



Here is another one!

I bet the judo expert would have loved to have seen the look on the 17 year olds face!


Better be careful Mickles, seems Martial Arts Schools are being targeted.... should be a story about that on Today Tonight soon...

But would you have to worry about dealing with assault charges or a lawsuit afterwards?

Then it would boil down to two choices: give them what they want or give them a proper thrashing? If any action is going to go against you later you might as well make it worthwhile?


Mick