seen these on another forum;

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_on_fe_st/odd_pickpocket_pummeled;_ylt=AgNx30bBdjwnh23KCrlEJngDW7oF

 

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash.

 

He immediately grabbed the person's wrist with his left hand and started throwing punches with his right, landing six or seven blows before a store manager intervened.

 

"I guess he thought I was an easy mark," Barnes, 72, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story Tuesday.

He's anything but an easy mark: Barnes served in the Marines, was an accomplished Golden Gloves boxer and retired after 20 years as an iron worker.

 

Jesse Daniel Rae, the 27-year-old Newaygo County man accused of trying to pick Barnes' pocket, was arraigned Monday in Rockford District Court on one count of unarmed robbery, a 15-year felony.

 

Barnes said he had just withdrawn the money from a bank machine and put it in the pocket of his shorts before driving to the Marathon service station and Next Door Food Store in Comstock Park, a Grand Rapids suburb.

 

He remembers noticing a patron acting suspiciously, asking the price of different brands of cigarettes and other items. While turned away, Barnes felt the hand in his pocket, so he took action.

"I guess I acted on instinct," he said.

 

Kent County sheriff's deputies said the store manager quickly came around the counter. The three of them struggled through the front door, where two witnesses said the manager slammed Rae to the ground and held him there.

"There was blood everywhere," said another manager on duty, Abby Ostrom, 25.

 

Barnes was a regional runner-up in Golden Gloves competition in the novice and open divisions before enlisting in the Marines in 1956.

He lived most of his adult life in Comstock Park with his wife, Patricia, before recently moving to Ottawa County. The couple have three children.

After retiring as an iron worker, he now works part-time as a starter at a golf course.

 

Barnes said he'd probably do the same thing again under the same circumstances, if for no other reason than what he would face back home.

"I wouldn't want my wife to give me hell for lettin' that guy get my money," he said with a smile.

 

 

and someone replied with this one;

 

A friend of mine recently related to me a story about a former National Guard guy who put down a carjacker.

 

Car drives up next to the former NG guy at a red light. Dude with a gun jumps out an hops into NG's car, puts the gun in NG's face and orders "Get out of the car!"

 

NG Guy: "No."

 

Jacker: "Don't be stupid! Get out of the car!"

 

NG guy shoves the jacker's gun arm wide with his left, draws his own concealed gun with his right and shoots the jacker in the stomach. The jacker's buddies peel away from the scene, and NG kicks the jacker out of the car.

 

He then puts his gun on the ground a good 15 feet away from his car, and puts his hands on the hood as the police pull up.

 

Cops ask NG what happened. Without looking up from the hood, hands still planted, "The man over there bleeding from the stomach tried to carjack me, so I shot him. My gun is about 15 feet over there. My concealed carry permit is in the glove box."

 

The NG had recently moved to the area, and was completely studied on the laws regarding firearms, and defending your personal property. Shooting the jacker that was threatening deadly force was completely legal.

 

The officers on the scene loved it. They were bragging about NG to their other officer buddies. Turns out later, the would-be jacker ended up trying to sue the NG. NG showed up in court with a posse of local law enforcement, including those that arrived on the scene to testify. The judge looked over the evidence, and ordered the plaintiff and his consul out of the courtroom.

 

i must say, i love both stories, serves the bad guys bloody right

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