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..."
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