Korean Tourists Floor Robber With Taekwondo

Would-be baddie thanks cops for saving him from beating
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 3, 2009 11:52 AM CDT
Korean Tourists Floor Robber With Taekwondo
New Zealand Olympic taekwondo athlete Logan Campbell trains in Auckalnd, New Zealand in this file photo.   (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Richard Robinson)

A group of South Korean tourists thwarted a robber yesterday in Rome with some cool Taekwondo moves that left him terrified, ANSA reports. The man assailed the group with a knife and grabbed a handbag, but one of the Koreans decked him before he could escape. By the time police showed up, the would-be thief actually thanked police for rescuing him. “I was being massacred,” he said. (More taekwondo stories.)

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