Posted on 07/07/2012 5:03:56 AM PDT by lowbridge
A tough-as-nails jiu-jitsu expert made such quick work of a purse snatcher in Central Park Thursday, a group of other would-be crime-stoppers could only stand by and watch his martial artistry.
Gaston Cavalleri, a 32-year-old British tourist, used his skills to hold 16-year-old accused crook Charles Williams until cops came.
Unfortunately for Williams, Cavalleri had studied jiu-jitsu at one of the world’s best schools in Brazil — meaning he needed about as much help as Batman would have needed from a group of Gothamites.
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Which reminds me of Vachel Lindsay’s poem, The Congo.
“Then along that river-bank
A thousand miles
Tattooed cannibals danced in files”
http://www.waterbug.com/calhoun/bio-ref/congo.html
(As racially non-PC as it starts, the poem is actually one of the redemption of savages by Christian missionaries. So it is doubly-damned by the left.)
HA HA HA! Classic!
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