Posted on 09/16/2005 11:25:20 AM PDT by Cowman
Friday, September 16, 2005 © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Frustrated by numerous auto thefts in his neighborhood, a football coach took matters into his own hands when thieves tried to steal his truck, violently ripping one of them from a getaway car before calling police.
Ken Cavallon of Seattle said he swung into action early Tuesday morning when his wife saw three people trying to break into his truck outside their home.
"I realized, enough is enough, so I came flying up the hill," Cavallon told KOMO-TV.
The coach grabbed a young man from inside the getaway vehicle as it began to pull away.
"The window was down just a little bit, so I ripped the window out, it shatters all over the ground," Cavallon said. "I try to pull him out of the car and the seat belt gets in the way, so I open up the car door, and as the guy's driving the get away car away, I yank him out of the car, throw him to the ground, pick him up, slam him on the hood of my truck, and just held him there."
Neighbor Thomas Oates, who corroborated the story, snapped a photograph of Cavallon with the 20-year-old would-be thief in his grip.
"Ken took the window out of the car, and reached in, and yanked the little puke out of the window of a moving car," Oates said. "It was unreal."
Cavallon added: "I had to yell at [the thief] at one point, and I said, 'dude, I'm three times your weight, and twice your strength, so don't even try,'"
Cavallon let him go only when police arrived at his home in the city's Queen Anne neighborhood.
Seattle Police Officer Rich Pruitt gladly took the 20-year-old, but encouraged others not to emulate Cavallon.
"Running outside, and taking on multiple suspects, I would advise against," Pruitt said "In this case, it did work out, and he was able to catch one of the bad guys."
But Cavallon hopes it will make a difference in a neighborhood plagued with car thefts.
"They seem to think this is easy pickins, and we're just not going to let it be easy pickins anymore," he said.
Seattle Police Officer Rich Pruitt gladly took the 20-year-old, but encouraged others not to emulate Cavallon
Leads to this
They seem to think this is easy pickins
I hereby nominate Ken Cavallon of Seattle as Non-Victim of the day
I would LOVE to see that photograph.
Don't mess with Coach!
If he tried that in San Francisco the coach would have been arrested for assault and the thief sent to a seminar to improve self-esteem.
It's on the page. (I am not good at posting pics)
You forgot breaking and entering.
My kinda guy
I agree that the coach took a big risk confronting the thieves the way he did. Next time, he should take along a large-caliber handgun.
Talk About Picking the Wrong Car to Steal (Previous thread of article)
Pic from news article:
Original pic as taken by the neighbor:
"I hereby nominate Ken Cavallon of Seattle as Non-Victim of the day"
Got my vote. Hell, I want him as a neighbor!
That knucklehead appears to have circulatory issues in his hands. And that is a good thing.
Wooo Hooo...he is an Eagles fan...my kind of fan.
The bad guy looks like a methhead.
Taking on 3 is not smart. That being said he got lucky and he did good.
Another, unreported, good deed happened the other day in Seattle.
Bad guys 1 and 2 attack old man for his wallet. Old man resists and bad guy 1 picks up a piece of cord from the ground and begins to strangle old man.
Bad guy 2 or old man produce a knife, who is not known, and old man either takes knife from bad guy 2 or opens his knife and sticks bad guy 1 in the neck, by reaching over his own shoulder and poking him.
Bad guy 1 releases the cord and old man, and gets arrested and taken to jail after a short trip to the hospital for a taxpayer funded exploratory surgery to ensure his jugular was not nicked.
I didn't say it was a perfect story but it did have a happy ening outside of the old man getting beat up pretty good and the taxpayer getting raked over the coals again.
I've seen that same condition and expression in babies while they are loading their diapers.
As an ex-cop, I heartily endorse the coach's actions.
Thanks for posting the pic. Now we don't have to have five or six posters speculating as to the race of the perp.
No blood?! Man, that punk would have looked a LOT worse if I were the "Coach."
He kind of looks like Andy Reid.
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