Passerby rescues truck driver from abduction, robbery attempt
A truck driver on the French-Belgian border has had a lucky escape from a robbery attempt thanks to a bold passerby.
Security footage of the incident, which occurred on Friday morning, shows two men attack a truck driver as a third pulls up behind them in sedan.
As the driver leaves the vehicle he is set upon by two men, before the boot of the silver Mercedes opens, apparently so the criminals can load the driver into it.
However, an older man soon enters the scene and injects himself into the middle of the violent attack.
As the would-be thieves strike the driver and frisk him in an apparent attempt to take his keys, the man harasses them until the give up on the robbery.
The men quickly retreat into the sedan, which was bearing French number plates, which then retreats backwards down the one way street.
Video of the incident was uploaded to Facebook over the weekend and has since been viewed more than 300,000 times.
According to reports, the attempted robbery was reported to police, however, the culprits have not yet been caught.
Grandmother fells ex-boxer with vicious right hook
It’s not the size of the grandma in the fight, but the size of the fight in the grandma.
This former boxer got a crystal clear lesson in the virtues of respecting one's elders when he lashed out at a female co-worker in front of a security camera in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The man is reported to be a famous ex-boxer from Kurgan, according to the woman who felled him. She also added the word “hooligan” to his biography.
Watch the road
We get it – there’s a lot going on on the roads and emotions can get the best of all of us. Still, it pays to watch what’s going on in front of you, even when the driver behind you has just given him a full belt of their horn and you feel honour-bound to respond.
Earlier this month a cyclist in Hampshire, UK, learned this lesson the hard way when he took a moment to flip off the Mazda MX5 he’d just cut off.
Foresight can fail you too
If you’re going to get into a fight outside of a pub, you are obviously not planning on losing. Of course, the best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry and leave you nought but grief and pain.
So it was when the elderly looking gentlemen at the heart of this tense conversation turned out to be a former boxer and left a couple of larger, younger gentlemen reconsidering some of their choices.
Pride comes before the fall
We get it – you’re a free citizen, a sovereign citizen even, and you don’t acknowledge the authority of the police to pull you over for random breath tests.
When this driver blew past a police road bloke, recorded the ensuing chase and commentated the entire episode, we assume you had a plan in mind. He at very least appeared to have a point to prove.
Unfortunately, the police also had a point to prove when they finally caught up and the high pitched wailing issuing forth from the driver’s seat seems to indicate Australia’s answer to William Wallace had absolutely no idea it would end this way. Live and learn.
Exit strategies matter
This West Australian crook might have had better luck if he'd scouted the exact location of the doors before he stole a woman's bag and crashed full-steam into a glass pane.
We’re not in the business of giving crooks tutorials, but this lesson applies to anyone prone to rash actions – situational awareness is important. Without it reality will hit you hard. In your face.
