72-year-old man beats pickpocket

Skylace · Admin Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

SpursFan1902 · Pitch Queen Joined: 24 May 2007 Location: Sunshine State

Good for him! I hate the sudden rash (or maybe just the sudden reporting rash) of violent crimes against the elderly. We have so much to learn from them and this is how they get treated. It's a shame...

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

If he was so well trained he'd not have needed to hit him at all, so I hope he's charged with assault. He's more of a law-breaker than the guy he's attacked.

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

don't mess with pensioners Laughing

this one always makes me laugh

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girldorksrule · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject:

I saw that on the news and thought it was brilliant.

pirtybirdy · 'Native New Yorker' Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: FL USA

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

what's not assault about it? The pickpocket was obviously subdued - any good defence lawyer would suggest undue force... it would be worth it for the tabloid headlines alone!

eefanincan · Admin Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Canada

Aja · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:41 am Post subject:

Luther Blissett · Free the weed! Joined: 27 May 2007

Faceless is basically right. The pickpocket appeared to have used far less (if any) force than was used against him, though in saying that, I hope that a judge would issue a sentence that dissuaded the "old man" from using excess force in future, but didn't actually fuck his life up in the process (so no criminal record or custodial sentence).

I presume the tabloid headline he (Faceless) had in mind would have been "Picked the wrong pocket", although I can't be sure about that. ...Perhaps he'd conjured an even worse pun.

Smile

The pickpocket was basically very bad at his job, and thus revealed the victim's loss to him before clearing the scene, unlike someone such as Robert Maxwell, who was very good at stealing, and managed to flee the scene ahead of being caught.

nekokate · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire, UK

Assault is assault, but I can understand perfectly how people would find it amusing, kind of like when a bull gores a bullfighter for once. An old guy, supposedly easy prey, actually comes out on top for once, etc. It's kind of poetic justice, especially since the thief didn't seem to be too badly effected by the blows. It's not like the old guy put him in a coma, he just whacked him a few times 'cos he was pissed that he was trying to steal his stuff.

I had my bag stolen once in the street, and I'd have loved to be able to get a few kicks in, if I could have.