A karate academy was not the best target for a robbery

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:05 pm

BOGOTA (Reuters) - A karate academy was not the best target for a robbery, a Colombian thief found when his attempt got the chop from practicing students, police said on Friday.

The robber was recovering in a hospital in Santander province north of Bogota after the martial artists used their combat skills and took away his gun.

"An individual entered a martial arts school with a firearm but they managed to react, put their knowledge to use and disarmed him," Santander police commander Col. Julio Cesar Santoyo told local Caracol radio.

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:10 pm

Another version:
Karate school robbery leaves thief hospitalized

Bogota - A feckless stick-up man chose the wrong target when he was beaten and hospitalized in an attempted robbery of a karate school in Bucaramanga in northwestern 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.

Police arrived at the scene only to take the would-be robber to hospital for treatment of multiple contusions at the hands of the karate students.-- AFP

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:51 pm

Another one of a similar theme:
Mugger in Germany foiled by blind judo expert

BERLIN (Reuters) - A blind judo expert astounded a mugger by pinning him to the ground after he tried to steal his cigarettes, police said on Monday.

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 southwestern 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.

IJ · Post by IJ » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:03 pm

In a similar vein, a blind new yorker killed a (failed) robber with a mean throw, if memory serves.

Note to karate students: Gi not guaranteed to deflect bullets.

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:17 pm

Of course it's not the Gi, it's the extra wide black belt combined with chi/qi/ki that deflects bullets!

Chris McKaskell · Post by **Chris McKaskell** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:06 pm

Golden Bell!