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[GeneChing]

Wise looks like a kid who just got schooled.

Burglar wins several parting gifts after breaking into home of kickboxer
Rick Chandler
Dec 10, 2012, 10:02 AM EST


When choosing a house to burglarize, it’s probably wise to make sure that the owner isn’t a kickboxer. The guy in the mugshot here is Jonathan Wise, whose first mistake was choosing a life of crime. His second (and third, fourth, fifth, etc.) was throwing a punch at the homeowner after he got caught in the act.

That’s because the guy whose house he was attempting to burglarize, Norm Houston, is a kickboxer and personal trainer. After Wise landed the first blow, Houston proceeded to land all subsequent punches. Any news report that includes the sentence “the man was taken to jail after a quick stop at the hospital” is a good news report.

KFOR:

“The burglar started out by apologizing to him for getting into the garage and said he had fixed the damage only to follow that up by punching him in the face,” OKC Police Master Sgt. Gary Knight said.

Although he didn’t throw the first punch, Houston beat up Wise.

“You know I ain’t the toughest but I can hold my own,” Houston said.

In Oklahoma City, that’s how they roll.

[GeneChing]

nasty vodka thief

MMA Fighter Stops Crime, Thwarts Thief In Missouri
Posted: December 28, 2012

An MMA fighter stopped a crime in progress in a Missouri greocery store, the area’s Patch reports.

The MMA fighter who stopped the crime is professional kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter Jesse Finney, and Finney happened to be in the store in Crestwood when a fellow patron decided to lift some bottles of vodka.

Unluckily for the thief, the MMA fighter stopped the crime, unwilling to allow the theft to occur unchecked on his watch. Finney — who was shopping for chocolate for his wife on December 21 when he thwarted the criminal — stepped in unaware of the crime that proceeded it, after he spotted a female employee of the shop pursuing a fleeing man on foot.

Finney says:

“I didn’t know if he had robbed the place, or if he’d assaulted somebody, I just saw her. He was pushing her off.”

Patch says the MMA fighter’s skills came in handy to stop the crime in progress, reporting:

“Finney grabbed the man by the coat. When he resisted, Finney slammed him to the ground and subdued him in a hold until Crestwood police could arrive, Finney said … As it turns out, the man had stashed several bottles of vodka before attempting to leave the store, Finney said. One of the bottles shoved in the man’s coat arm busted when he hit the ground.”

Finney credits the discipline and judgment he has developed as an MMA fighter for the relative restraint he used when stopping the crime — he says:

“In the martial arts, it teaches you discipline and respect. If I wasn’t disciplined, I probably would have hurt the guy … Instead, I took him down and a bottle broke in his jacket. That’s what we really try to focus on at the gym here in Crestwood … My wife was like, ‘What if he had had a gun?’ but at the end of the day, I just acted on instinct. I’m not going to let a man push a woman. It was pretty amazing, I was able to stop him, and nobody got hurt.”

While the MMA fighter did manage to stop the crime, the store says it does not encourage customer intervention to prevent shoplifting.

[GeneChing]

More on Jianzhong here.

If Bruce Lee faced forced eviction in China
The tough guys who descended on Shen Jianzhong's home didn't know what they were in for. The incident prompts a few sad remarks about social conditions in China.
December 29, 2012|By John Hannon, Los Angeles Times


When Jianzhong and his son used kung fu to drive away thugs hired by developers who want the family's land in Bazhou, China.


BEIJING — The men who barged through Shen Jianzhong's door probably thought it was a routine assignment: Break in and beat Shen's family into submission. Forced evictions to make way for real estate development are an everyday occurrence in China, and the family may have seemed no different from any in that situation.

It was only after they forced open the door, threw Shen's wife to the ground and began to beat her that they learned the 38-year-old Shen and his 18-year-old son are kung fu masters.

"I take Bruce Lee very seriously," said Shen in a telephone interview a month after the incident.

Shen says he does not recall exactly what happened during the fight, but an eight-minute video of the aftermath shows seven of the hired hands piled in a motionless heap in Shen's doorway. Blood pools around the cheek of one; another lies halfway through the doorway, crumpled on the curb. Survivors mill about unsteadily on the street, glaring at the camera.

The video, shot by Shen's wife, has attracted nearly a million views and many admiring comments since it was posted online Oct. 30. It has turned Shen into a minor folk hero in China, where many villagers have been forced out of their homes by da shou ("beating hands" in Chinese) who work for real estate developers.

Land confiscation is one of the most contentious political issues in China and accounts for many of the mass demonstrations that occur with regularity across the country. A report by Amnesty International this year estimated that confiscations have occurred in 43% of Chinese villages in 15 years.

Shen and his family live in Bazhou, a city in Hebei province 60 miles from central Beijing. Shen says he has trained in Lee's Jeet Kune Do style of kung fu for 20 years. He has also been certified by the Hong Kong-based World Record Assn. for completing the highest number of roller push-ups in a minute. The exercise, which involves folding and unfolding at the waist like an inchworm while propped up with a small wheel, is more than a pastime for Shen. He and his wife run a small business teaching the exercise at home and around Bazhou, and they fear that the loss of their house would damage their livelihood.

Shen says he was teaching at a nearby gym on Oct. 29 when a group of more than 30 men assembled outside his house, which a local Communist Party official was planning to redevelop into an apartment complex. The men threatened and verbally abused Shen's wife as she returned home with groceries.

Once Shen arrived and confirmed to the leader of the group that his family would not leave before receiving guarantees for housing, the assailants, he said, burst through the front door and began to beat his wife. In response, Shen and his teenage son, a graduate of traditional martial arts schools, entered the fray.

Many who have seen the video, which has not been blocked by Internet censors, applauded Shen's victory. But the incident has also prompted a number of mournful remarks about social conditions in China.

"So do all Chinese people have to go to the Shaolin Temple [a historic martial arts academy] and study kung fu to do something about forced evictions?" wondered one recent blogger.

Shen said his troubles have actually increased since the attack. The next day, he said, nearly 100 men arrived in buses from out of town and surrounded his house. When the police refused to drive off the men on grounds that they were behaving peacefully, Shen fled with his wife to Beijing, hoping that media attention and the central government would help his family.

Shen said that in his absence his house has not been demolished, but that shortly after his departure for Beijing, the Bazhou police arrested his son.

Gangs like the one that attacked Shen's home often operate with the consent of officials. After tax reforms cut into revenue across the country in the 1990s, local governments began exercising their right to rezone and sell land for real estate development. Chinese reports have said that the proceeds from recorded land sales, which go directly to the governments, far exceed the compensation offered to evicted inhabitants.

Rural Chinese, who receive plots of land allocated by local governments, have no individual land rights and cannot dispute rezoning plans drawn up by officials. But when officials do not offer sufficient compensation to households to relocate, the residents sometimes refuse to leave. Developers then evict the holdouts by force.

These forced evictions can provoke desperate responses. Some villagers have set themselves on fire, according to Chinese media reports.

Spectacular cases of armed resistance have also attracted attention, as when a farmer named Yang Youde used a homemade rocket launcher to drive away assailants from his house near Wuhan in 2010.

Chinese prosecutors often bring serious criminal charges against individuals who fight back. In a similar case in north China in 2009, a man named Zhang Jian was charged with murder after he stabbed and fatally wounded a man beating his wife during a forced eviction.

Shen returned to Bazhou on Nov. 28 to negotiate his son's fate with the police and the developer. He says his son is still in detention, and unless he comes to an agreement with the developer he is afraid criminal charges will follow.

So while Shen is hopeful that the compensation for his property will increase, he also knows where the hard-won money is bound to go: He's had to retain a lawyer for his son.

Hannon is an intern in The Times' Beijing bureau.

[GeneChing]

56-year-old dude has a 31-year-old gf, a samurai sword and a road flare at bedside. Nice.

Santa Cruz burglar thwarted by man with samurai sword
By Stephen Baxter - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Posted: 01/02/2013 05:21:13 PM PST

SANTA CRUZ -- A man on Walnut Avenue used a samurai sword and a road flare to protect his girlfriend from a burglar early Tuesday morning. A few hours later, another woman was awakened by a burglar who took a pair of her panties, authorities said.

About 4:25 a.m., a 31-year-old woman was asleep in bed with her 56-year-old boyfriend, said Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark.

She woke up and saw a 23-year-old man standing over her. The boyfriend woke up, grabbed a samurai sword in the room and fended off the intruder, Clark said.

The woman then grabbed a road flare from her night stand drawer and lit it, according to police. Her boyfriend took the flare and chased the burglar out of the home.

They called 911. No one was injured.

Police arrived and found Jose Manuel Gomez urinating on the home's front door.

Gomez was arrested on suspicion of burglary about 4:35 a.m., authorities said. He is being held in Santa Cruz County Jail on Wednesday in lieu of $50,000 bail, according to jail records.

Gomez, a transient from Watsonville, was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor offenses four times in 2011, according to Santa Cruz County court records.

He was arrested on suspicion of battery, trespassing and disturbing the peace in separate cases, as well as obstructing business at Wells Fargo Bank on Main Street in Watsonville, according to records.

All the cases were dismissed. In his most recent case in the fall of 2011, a county mental health official asked a judge to place Gomez in a locked psychiatric care facility.

It was not clear if Gomez received care because health records are not public. A call to Gomez's public defender was not returned Wednesday.

"For someone to be at the level where he's at -- to be able to stand over a woman in their house -- tells me that this is not their first foray," Clark said. "It demonstrates some serious behavior and hopefully the courts will take notice."

[GeneChing]

Score another for kung fu. Or maybe score one for China viral vid fraud.

China's 'Beautiful Leg Heroine' Goes Viral After Kung-Fu Kick Appears To Stop Woman Wielding Blade

The Huffington Post UK | By Jessica Elgot Posted: 08/01/2013 11:22 GMT | Updated: 08/01/2013 11:22 GMT

Hot chick in China kicks blade out of madwoman's hand, dubbed "Beautiful Leg Heroine)

A high-kicking, high-heeled heroine has taken China by storm, as a video emerged of a young women in bare legs apparently subduing a weapon-wielding woman.

Dubbed "Beautiful Leg Heroine" by local media, the video gained more than 1.3million views in seven hours on Youku, according to blog Beijing Cream.

But many on social networks have raised eyebrows at the video and questioned its veracity, especially seeing as the woman is wearing bare legs in extremely cold temperatures.


Neither women in the video have yet been identified, but the clip has gone viral in China

A news anchor described the girl as “walking the street with a pair of exposed snow-white legs, and they pack some serious kung-fu. With just one move, she rescued a woman trying to commit suicide on the street.”

According to eyewitnesses who shot the video in Guangzhou at around 8pm on Saturday evening, "Beautiful Leg Heroine" subdued a woman who was "screaming about the end of the world", holding a knife or a pair of scissors, with bleeding hands, looking like she was "preparing to kill herself."

She began to throw money onto the floor, Chinese media described, chucking aside 50 and 100 RMB notes (£5 and £10). The young heroine appears to approach the woman to offer her the money back, and quickly smashes the blade out of her hands.

Chinese news channels recreated the scene and the moments before the kung-fu kick, using an animated sequence.

No-one has traced the woman, but it can't be long before Hollywood tracks her down.

'bare legs in extremely cold temperatures'? In China, beautiful women wear bikinis in the snow?

[GeneChing]

...well, it's not really clear what style Stevens does.

How about score one for black belts?

Police praise for Canterbury martial arts instructor Darren Stevens' aid at drink-drive arrest


Black belt martial arts instructor Darren Stevens
by Jamie Bullen

A drink-drive suspect accused of attacking a policeman was arrested after a martial arts expert stepped in to help the struggling officer.

Black belt Darren Stevens was driving through Broad Oak, near Canterbury, when he spotted the PC pepper-spraying a man he was attempting to arrest.

He pulled over and jumped out of his car to help restrain the man, who was said to have injured the officer in the struggle.

Mr Stevens, who runs Fusion Martial Arts and Fitness, in Broad Oak Road, was praised for his actions and even received a letter from police applauding his bravery.

He shared the story on Fusion's Facebook page, winning resounding support from hundreds of people.

He wrote: "A copper in front of him [the suspect] had been hit by this guy and was unloading a full can of spray in this guy’s face; didn't work and the copper was alone at this time, truly scared at the aggression of this monster.

"So me being me, 5ft 6ins, stopped and took this guy down to help the officer.

"Note to all my students, no matter how small you are or what sex you are, with true martial arts training you can have the confidence to take on any situation, but it takes dedication and persistence in your training."

Police inspector Kevin Dyer wrote to Mr Stevens on the day of the incident to thank him for his help and avoiding serious injury.Black belt martial arts instructor Darren Stevens helped police arrest a suspected drink-driver


Instructor Darren Stevens helped police arrest a suspected drink-driver

Insp Dyer wrote: "I am writing to thank you for the assistance you gave to my officers today.

"Not all members of the public would put themselves into such situations and having spoken to the officers they are very grateful for your assistance.

"As a result of your help the male was detained with only minor injury to one of the officers."

Martin Barnard, 33, of Ashburnham Road, Ramsgate, is due before Canterbury magistrates on January 21 charged with failing to provide a breath specimen and assaulting a police officer.

"With true martial arts training you can have the confidence to take on any situation..." – Darren Stevens

[GeneChing]

You know where to get your nunchuks. Get them right here (unless you are in CA, MA or NY )

85-yr-old nunchaku wielder defeats 3 armed robbers
Tuoitrenews
Updated : Mon, February 4, 2013,4:13 PM (GMT+0700)


The 85-year-old man used this nunchaku to fight back one of the three robbers on January 31, 2013
Photo: VnExpress

Words are spreading that an 85-year-old man managed to disarm and defeat three young men who used scimitars and knives to attack him to rob his motorbike on January 31, 2013 in Phu Xuan Commune, Nha Be District, Ho Chi Minh City.

The aged but strong man is Mai Van O, a native of An Giang Province, who learned martial arts from three instructors when he was a child. When he was 20 years old he defeated three robbers armed with guns in Cambodia where he was a trader.

After working as a stevedore for six years, he arrived in the commune and made a living as a duck breeder.

At 2 am on January 31, O was startled out of his sleep after hearing the voice of a young man. The old man immediately sat up and crawled out of the mosquito net.

O noticed a young man moving his motorbike out of his hut (where he was sleeping to tend to the ducks he was raising nearby). He then felt a sharp object pressing against his hip and heard another voice “Keep silent, or I will stab you to death.”

O understood that at least two robbers were in the hut and they had switched off the light. The old man raised up his hands but when seeing the robber approach closer, O gave him a hard kick, causing him to fall to the ground but the robber immediately stood up and brandished a scimitar.

O rapidly took a 2-meter pointed bamboo bar that had been stuck on the wall and used it to shield off the stabs from the robber and finally wrestled the knife from him.



Mai Van O, 85, recounted what he had done to fight back the robbers (Photo: VnExpress)

"I then thrust the bar into the robber’s face and then into his chest. The robber fell onto another robber who was taking the Honda dream motorbike out of the door. I gave the second robber several strikes with the stick when he rushed up to me”, he told the media.

O had by then become worn out and collapsed onto the hut wall. At that time, the third robber who was standing watch outside the hut rushed inside with a scimitar in hand.

At this time, O took a nunchaku (a weapon consisting of two sticks connected at one end with a short chain, often seen wielded by Bruce Lee) from a corner of his bed and used it to strike the robber, causing the scimitar to drop from his hand.

O then shouted loudly, “Help me, help me!”. Two neighbors rushed to the hut and the three robbers fled, leaving the motorbike behind.

After the robbery, O sold out all his ducks and has returned to his house nearby. He no longer sleeps in the hut now.

He said he bought the motorbike for VND3.4 million (US$163) a few months ago with the money he had saved for years. Currently, he wanted to sell it to have money for the coming Tet.

A few days before the robbery, two of the three robbers came to the hut and asked him for advice on selecting the best fighting ****s.

During their talk, the young men also asked about the motorbike and said they would seek a buyer for him, the old man told police.

Co is married with 5 children.



The old man said when he was 20 he defeated three robbers armed with guns in Cambodia (Photo: VnExpress)

[GeneChing]

Sawed-off handgun?

Martial arts skill trumps gun in Newton road rage conflict
By Deirdre Fernandes
| Globe Staff
February 16, 2013

A road-rage rumble that erupted along a quiet Newton street Thursday afternoon pitted one driver carrying a sawed-off handgun against another armed with his championship martial-arts skills.

The Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu *expert prevailed.

He put the other driver in a chokehold, landed a couple of strikes to his head, and wrestled the gun away, all before the police arrived, according to court documents.

Police later arrested Byung Jin Kang, a 21-year-old college student from Newton, who is accused of pulling out the *revolver and threatening the Jiu-Jitsu-trained driver.

Kang pleaded not guilty Friday to assault and gun charges. He was ordered held on $5,000 cash bail at his arraignment in Newton District Court. Kang took out the gun in self-defense, said Alice Purple, his lawyer. Kang plans to file assault charges against the other driver, she said.

“He was afraid,” Purple said.

The judge withheld the name of the other driver, *described in a Newton police report as the co-owner of a mixed-martial arts school. The two did not know each other, police said. The driver declined to comment when reached by phone Friday.

The confrontation began around 3:40 p.m. when the martial arts instructor made a right turn and pulled out in front of Kang’s car on Dedham Street, according to the police report. He told police that a snow bank blocked his view.

Kang blew his horn, flashed his lights, and continued to follow the driver, the report said.

They pulled over onto a residential side street and got out of their cars.

According to the martial arts instructor, Kang pointed the gun at him and said, “Do you want to go?” He tried to calm Kang down and told him “to put the gun away because he had a wife, and kids and didn’t want to be shot,” the police *report states.

The martial arts instructor persuaded Kang to put his gun in his pocket, the report said. Then he charged Kang, pushed him to the ground, and wrapped his arm around his head.

When Kang struggled, the martial arts instructor struck him in the head and grabbed the gun, the report said.

Kang left the gun there, got in his car, and drove away, accord*ing to the report. He was stopped by police nearby.

Kang faces one charge of *assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a firearm without a license, and illegal possession of ammunition.

“This was a very dangerous assault on a stranger,” said *Alexandra Watson, a lawyer with the Middlesex district *attorney’s office.

Purple declined to comment on how Kang allegedly got his gun. MassBay Community College, where Kang is a student, is awaiting a report from the Newton Police Department *before making a decision on Kang’s enrollment status, said Jeremy Solomon, a school spokesman.

“A violation of state or federal laws is subject to disciplinary action under the student code of conduct, up to and including expulsion from the college,” *Solomon said in an e-mail.

While this case ended without any serious injuries, Lieutenant Bruce Apotheker of the Newton police warned people against charging toward anybody armed with a gun.

Instead, get a good description of the assailant and call the police, Apotheker said, unless your life is in immediate danger.

“Don’t try to be a hero,” Apotheker said. “Don’t try to do something stupid.”

[GeneChing]

But I think we should score this one for Kung Fu.

Thursday February 28, 2013
One robber seriously hurt and others flee after martial arts man puts up a fight
Compiled by NICHOLAS CHENG, ALLISON LAI and A. RAMAN

FOUR knife-wielding robbers ran out of luck while trying to rob a martial arts master of his gold chain in Kepong.

With help from one of his students, 33-year-old Wong Yaw Min overcame the robbers with his bare hands.

One of the robbers was severely injured during the fight, reported China Press.

The incident happened on Tuesday, right after Wong had finished having breakfast with his student.

Four men on two motorcycles, who were armed with knives, approached him.

One of them tried to grab his gold chain.

Wong fought off the attackers and when his student saw the scuffle, he jumped to his master's aid.

One of the attackers managed to escape unhurt while two others were knocked off their motorcycles before fleeing on foot.

Policemen, who arrived later, took the injured robber to the hospital.

[GeneChing]

Although it might just be called so because it was a Chinese buffet...

Rowdy couple tackled by kung-fu waiters
Published on Tuesday 12 March 2013 09:19

A COUPLE got more than they bargained for at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet when they attacked restaurant staff and were tackled by waiters like “extras from a Bruce Lee film”.

Waiters served up high kicks to detain Ann Simpson and Jonathon Johnson after the pair caused chaos.

Newcastle Crown Court heard how staff and the public gathered around as the scenes unfolded outside, ending when police arrived and arrested the pair.

Simpson, 26, and Johnson, 30, had appeared drunk when they turned up at the No1 Buffet in Stowell Street, Newcastle, and were refused a table by concerned staff, who told them that all of the tables were reserved.

The couple left the premises, but on seeing empty tables through the window, decided to go back in, and made their way to the back of the restaurant.

They were asked to leave by a waitress. Simpson responded by poking her and punching her, before Johnson grabbed a baby’s highchair and flung it at her.

The scuffle, which happened on September 14, moved outside, where Simpson grabbed hold of the waitress again, and was pulled away by male members of staff.

Johnson punched a male member of staff in the face, leaving him with swelling to the right side of his jaw. More staff emerged, and detained the couple with high-kicks, although none connected.

Katherine Dunn, defending Simpson, said that she is currently overcoming a heroin addiction and has been making progress while in custody.

John Wilkinson, defending Johnson, said “He admits he threw a punch. But the members of staff were less than helpful.

“They were like extras from a Bruce Lee film.”

Simpson admitted affray and common assault and Johnson pleaded guilty to common assault.

Mr Recorder Woolfall, sentenced Simpson, of Spencer Walk, South Shields, to 12 months in prison, including three months for theft in a separate incident.

Johnson, of Buxton Close, Jarrow, was sentenced to three months in prison, which he had already served on electronic tag.

[GeneChing]

Chinese Woman on Trial for Killing Man by Squeezing His Scrotum

2 days ago by Master Blaster


On 8 April, the trial began for a woman accused of killing a man in an excruciating fashion.

It all started on 19 April of the previous year. The suspect was picking up her child when she parked an electric bike in front of a shop. The man running the shop came out and shouted “you’re blocking my business!”

The resulting argument must have gotten pretty heated as it resulted in the mother clutching the shopkeeper’s testicles in her vice-like grip.

As she held the man in a nut lock, witnesses reported her to have shouted, “I’ll squeeze it to death, you’ll never have children again!”

Apparently she didn’t know how right she was, because soon after the man went into shock from the pain. Paramedics rushed to the scene and treated the victim but he was soon pronounced dead.

With the trial ongoing, the result may hinge on the woman’s alleged statement of “squeeze it to death.” Depending on how it’s interpreted, she may be convicted of murder.

However, it seems this falls under the capital offense of intentionally inflicting injury which states under China’s Criminal Law Article 234.

“if he causes death to the person or, by resorting to especially cruel means, causes severe injury to the person, reducing the person to utter disability, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death”

I think all the male readers can agree this case counts as “especially cruel means.” So any way you slice it this lady is likely to get a heavy punishment.

What a way to check out.

[wenshu]

Kent Hendrix, 47, draws his sword near his house Tuesday, April 23, 2013, in Salt Lake City. Hendrix, a Samurai sword-wielding Mormon bishop came to the aid of a woman who was being attacked in front of his house. Hendrix woke up Tuesday to his teenage son pounding on his bedroom door and telling him somebody was being mugged. Hendrix grabbed a 29-inch Samurai sword and rushed out the door. He says the man attacking a woman jumped back and ran down the street after he drew the sword. The man was chased until he jumped in his car and drove away. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

http://news.yahoo.com/mormon-bishop-...233001935.html

[stoic]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1325905

[mawali]

ah luv it!
The hero was a samurai sword raising LSD bishop pun intended!

[GeneChing]

Victim Fights Off Attacker, Sends Suspect Running for the Hills

Here's a look at some of the incidents that have been handled recently by the Chamblee Police Department, from Officer Alex Cushenan.

By Brookhaven Patch Staff
April 19, 2013

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4/7/13 - Criminal Attempt, Robbery, 1800 block of Chamblee Tucker Road, 8:45 pm. Victim was walking home from the store when he was attacked from behind by a White or Hispanic male, 6’2 ft, 200 pounds with short black hair and wearing a black shirt and red and black Nike shoes. The suspect told the victim, “Don’t fight me, white boy.” The victim studies martial arts and while on the ground punched the suspect in the face, fought his way back to his feet, and kneed the suspect in the groin. The suspect then fled on foot towards the trail behind Wal‐Mart that leads to Keswick Park.

Score one for the white boys!