I'll be 75 on Oct 26th. :)
Posted on 02/14/2005 8:53:51 AM PST by Honcho
Saturday February 12, 01:26 PM
'You picked the wrong man'
A young punk who tried to mug an 88-year-old picked the wrong man -- his intended victim turned out to be a former boxing champion who knocked the attacker out cold.
"I was visiting a friend's grave when a young, long-haired man came up to me and demanded I hand over my money," said granddad Gerhard Brinkmann of Halberstadt, Germany, who was the country's top lightweight boxer in 1936.
"I told him to come closer if he wanted it and, as he did, I landed a full-force right hook on his chin."
Consequences can be a bitch, can't they?
LoL!
Since this happened in the UK I assume that Gramps will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon....
Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Way to go old man!
My ex-girlfriend's brother tried to snatch a purse from an old lady in his neighborhood. The old lady hung on as he tried to run away, took her little Golf Umbrella, and bashed him on the head until he gave up.
Way to go, Gramps! I so enjoy a story with a good ending.
"Since this happened in the UK I assume that Gramps will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon...."
You're such a bigoted brute picking on the UK like that.
/whiney anglophile pulled thread FReeper mode.
Just damn Alert...
Here's a morning smile.
LOL!
That criminal will be embarrassed about this for the rest of his life. LOL!
Three cheers for that old guy. We had a similar incident here in my hometown. An elderly man was sitting in a bus station waiting on his daughter (who worked at the ticket counter) to take him to lunch. A thug came in brandishing a pistol and demanding all the money in the register. The old guy was carrying an umbrella. He got up and beat the daylights out of the thug with his umbrella. When the police arrived the would-be robber was lying on the floor in a fetal position crying for his momma. Hoorah again!
LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror has reported.
Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off", the paper said on Tuesday.
Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.
But after the game Huish went home, severed his testicles with a knife, and walked 200 metres back to the bar with the testicles to show the shocked drinkers what he had done.
Huish was taken to hospital where he remained in a seriously ill condition, the paper said. Police told the paper he had a history of mental problems.
Wales's 11-9 victory over England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was their first home win over England in 12 years.
and the winner for the 2005 Nelson Muntz award goes to...
Ah, the old days.
He got off the train from Connecticut at Grand Central Station and jumped into a cab. Two young punks got into the cab at the same time and tried to rob him.
Marciano KO'd the both of them.
"...they're all perfect..."
Germany?
Unless I'm misreading the article, it happened in Germany.
The article is from the UK.
BTW, where are the calls for the investigation of this attacker's Nazi past?
What leads you to believe Gerhard Brinkmann of Halberstadt, Germany, was visiting a friends grave in the UK?
I love Denny Crane....did you see him last night? LOLOLOL
Time to ban assault umbrellas...
Don't mess with us old curmudgeons! :)
What do they teach in journalism school besides plagiarism and communism these days...?
LOLOL.
What a GREAT story.
Well, he certainly removed himself from any future swims in the gene pool....
> What do they teach in journalism school besides
> plagiarism and communism these days...?
That's pretty much it.
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/school/msnvalues.shtml
The business of cranking out mindless propagandists to
work in the liberal media monopoly may not have much of
a future.
Age and treachery will always triumph over youth and skill. ;)
I can relate to both sides of this
I smart mouthed my grandpa ...... once
and a smartass 19 will wear (when ever he can afford it) a partial the rest of his life for a missed swing on me
Roger that ~ it works for me. :)
The older I get, the more I see the wisdom in it.
Forgery and Fraud.
Yo, Rock!
I'll be 75 on Oct 26th. :)
The following is excerpted from the Univ of Kansas School of Journalism website--
The mission of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications is to teach students to think critically and creatively while preparing them for careers in journalism, mass communications and related fields and for graduate study.
Our commitments:
Graduates of the School will:
Appreciate the value of freedom of expression and its importance in society.
Be able to critically analyze mass media.
Have an ethical framework for the practice of journalism and mass communication.
Demonstrate an understanding of the value of a diverse society, a diverse work place and the importance of reflecting that diversity in mass media.
Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of changing media technologies on society.
Demonstrate effective production and presentation skills for the media.
Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of research for adding new knowledge and an ability to employ research techniques for analysis and interpretation.
Demonstrate an understanding of how communications organizations function and the important management issues they face.
Adopted by a unanimous vote of the faculty on Sept. 3,1998
They've ceased teaching journalism and have gone over to teaching agit-prop....
At least he won't reproduce.
Don’t laugh, it has happened before.
The last incident I recall was Fernando Vargas in about 1998 or 1999. The way I remember it he was in a shoving/screaming match with someone and somehow got hit with a pipe while they were trying to separate them. Then he threw a few punches (that he claimed were self defense) and they hooked *him* up for ADW.
I didn’t follow it closely and never heard anything else about it so I assume they dropped it or plead it down. He was sure charged with it initially.
Then, I recall more recently that Tyson got in a scrape with a couple of people somewhere. I recall they were suing, but that would be a civil action, I guess.
That’s the other side – the civil side. He might not get charged for a criminal act, but unless the guy initiated physical contact with him, he might get screwed anyway, depending. Seriously.
A lot of people forget that. If you’re trained in boxing/martial arts, the law in a lot of places *requires* you to retreat/avoid, unless doing so is an impossibility. [And that’s not unique to “professional” boxers/kickboxers – they’re just a different “flavor” – it applies to amateurs too, and especially if you’ve ever been an instructor/trainer.]
And, when it comes to defense concerning property (as opposed to self), they’re usually more restrictive and require that the other party initiate physical contact AND that you attempt retreat AND that you use the minimum of force necessary. You can still lose that one in a civil suit. Been done plenty. Not in Europe either – in the U.S.
One I just thought of was in Pennsylvania back in the late 80’s (?). Blind guy got mugged but was an Aikido guy or something. Threw the attacker but he landed on his head and died. It was nip-and-tuck for a while but they decided not to charge him criminally.
I recall he was facing a civil suit because with his expertise he was *expected* to use force short of lethal – accidental or not – to defend himself against an attacker trying to take property.
I didn’t follow that one either because I moved to the other side of the country, but seem to remember that he didn’t have a whole lot to go after. If he wasn’t sued it was probably because he didn’t have much, IMO.
While it may make a good story, you typically don’t want to get involved in something like that if it can possibly be avoided.
Some crooks just can't win <G>
Ya beat me to it
Not bad, gramps.
Great!
Of course the thugs lawyers will try to sue the 80 year old for being a professional boxer.
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