An old man knocks out 2 would-be muggers with his fists. They didn't know he was a boxer..

[ariesgem]

Wow... Score TWO for pops!

[SheilaT]

1. Excellent.

And further proof that you don't always need a gun.

[TeeYiYi]

3. I would've needed a gun. ..nt

TYY

[SheilaT]

5. I can tell you that I've never owned

or fired a gun, so it wouldn't be a very good idea for me to have one.

I'd have to rely on pulling my "I'm old enough to be your grandmother" routine. Which works for getting out of traffic tickets. I've never been mugged, so don't know how well it would work there.

[pipoman]

4. "You"? ...Well maybe if "you" happen to be a freaking boxer....ffs..

[SheilaT]

7. generic you.

You'uns, Y'all, youse guys. Non specific other.

Or I could reword it more formally: As it happens, I have never owned a gun. Nor fired one. I simply rely on my gray hair and obvious age to pull the "I'm as old as your grandmother" card to get out of traffic tickets.

Definitely not a boxer.

[Hoyt]

14. At least the perps lived. At best, assuming they don't take your gun and shoot you, everyone

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lives when some paranoid fool is not carrying a gun to go th Chuck E Cheese. Most street robbers really aren't out to kill you, so leave your guns at home. Your gunz make you feel tougher, but that won't do anyone any good in a situation like the video.

[pipoman]

20. Yeah, not everyone is proficient in bean can self defense either...lol

[Hoyt]

21. Better than being proficient at shooting unarmed people who only want your wallet.

[Lizzie Poppet]

23. Since I'm not a mind reader...

...I couldn't know that's all they wanted. Enough such crimes end in serious harm to the victim that I feel completely justified in using (potentially) lethal force to defend myself. It's far from a remote possibility.

[Hoyt]

24. You tuck a gun in your pants believing you may need it when you go to store.

Property is not a reason to kill, well for most people.

[Lizzie Poppet]

25. Do you even read replies to your posts?

Doesn't seem like it...

But I'll repeat myself this once: it's impossible to know that a mugger intends only to take your property. Even if that is their initial intent, such crimes result in violence with sufficient frequency to make it unreasonable to simply assume that theft will be the only outcome. This is particularly true when the victim is a woman.

[Hoyt]

26. Most of time, their intent is to take your wallet and get away quickly. What's your intent

when you buy an new gun and tuck one in your pants to go to Chuck E Cheese or something?

[Lizzie Poppet]

34. "Most of the time" isn't good enough.

If you wish to accept that probability, fine. I'm not.

[Hoyt]

35. Sure it is if shooting someone is not on your bucket list. Plus, there are plenty

of ways to reduce the very small risk even further, and carrying a gun ain't one of them. Maybe someday you'll admit the truth of why you strap a gun on to walk down the street.

[Lizzie Poppet]

36. Don't try to psychoanalyze me.

You're spectacularly under-qualified, and you just make a fool of yourself.

You also are, apparently, completely ignorant of the statistical reality of female crime victimization. Imagine my surprise...

[cherokeeprogressive]

38. I get so sick of you making excuses for and defending criminals...

Awww... all they want is your wallet. Go ahead and give it to them and no one gets hurt. See how easy life is when you don't question their motives or resist them?

You know what? Come take my wallet. I dare ya, and no, I don't carry a gun. I'm not a boxer, but we're going to wrestle and you're not going to walk away until you do it in cuffs.

[Hoyt]

44. Tough guy? LMAO. I seem to remember you in the Gungeon arguing it's OK

to shoot people over property. I may be mistaken, but seems like you were OK with shooting some fleeing in the back.

Sorry, I don't support gun toting, or shooting folks over property. If that makes you sick, too bad.

[cherokeeprogressive]

45. I would never advocate for shooting anyone in the back and fuck me but do you read? I don't "tote".

[Hoyt]

46. Calm down, gunz and anger don't mix. I might have you mixed up with another Gungeoneer.

They all seem to pretty much think alike.

[cherokeeprogressive]

47. Now I'm certain of it. I was only suspicious before, but now I am definitely certain.

[Positrons]

49. Keep your hands off of other people and their property...

... And it won't be an issue.

Kindergarten rules...

[Hoyt]

50. Don't carry a gun and shoot people fleeing in the back, and it wouldn't be a problem.

Nor, would it be more likely the gun toter's kid might shoot himself with the gun, the toter's spouse might take one center mass, a mugger would take toter's gun and shoot them, etc.

[the band leader]

6. Yes, elderly people should all take note of this video because it wasn't atypical at all.

[TeeYiYi]

2. k+r...

Wish I could hear what they're saying.
Good job, old man!

TYY

[Warpy]

8. One of them was out cold

I hope "get a job, punk" was part of what he said to the other one.

[ariesgem]

15. lol...

That was my thought!

[nsd]

9. Is this real?

If so, fantastic. But it seems too good to be true: he knocked two of them out with one punch each? That happens in movies, but in real life?

[zeemike]

12. Not really if you know how to do it.

And boxers know how to hit them in the jaw in the right place to rattle the brain and knock them out.
And they presented their jaw to him as a perfect target.

[bvar22]

48. The tip of the jaw has a name among boxers.

They call it "The Button".

That is why the managers and corner men are always hollering at their boxer to "Keep your chin down!!!!

[zeemike]

51. Yep and they led with their chin.

Especially the guy that threw that punch, his chin was right out there in perfect position.
And they were much bigger than him...no doubt thought they could intimidate him.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. I have actually seen something similar happen.

A couple years ago, hubs and I pulled up to a red light, and saw two kids just about like those in this video run up at an old guy who was walking down the street. Hubs puts on signal to turn right to try to scare the kids off, and next thing we know, the old guy has both those kids on the ground and is just wailing on them. Kids run off.

We pull up, hubs laughingly asks old guy if he needs help. Old guy got a huge smile on his mug, and says "Nah, I think I'm okay, they probably won't bother me anymore." Hubs says..."Guess not".

It was great.

[Ed Suspicious]

10. That should just about put an end to picking on old people for those two so firmly planted on

their backsides.

[Lulu Belle]

27. Or they might just shoot,or stab him first, and then take his wallet.

Muggers and stickup men are the most dangerous common criminals.
They are desperate enough to rob their victims face to face, knowing that the victims will see them, and can ID them.
Their behaviour is unpredictable at best, and violent at worst.

[Ed Suspicious]

28. You gunners truly live in a war zone.

[Lulu Belle]

29. You have no idea

If I am a "gunner" or not.
I simply stated that those types of criminals are the most dangerous to their victims.

[Ed Suspicious]

32. I have a pretty good idea. One needs to stay armed, mentally, in this DU warzone.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. ouch

[pansypoo53219]

16. no sound? dang.

that larger dick was gonna try + hit a much older man.

[boomer55]

17. Ignore the title and wstch the vid

Mugging a guy while texting? Yeah, don't think so.

[IcyPeas]

18. a Short Sharp Shock right in the noggin. /nt

[Alfalfa]

19. This made my day

[Schema Thing]

22. Er.. how exactly did we determine that these boys were "muggers"?

Or even aggressors for that matter. The older man certainly got physical first.

[Smarmie Doofus]

33. Exactly.

With no dialogue.... and no caption??????

And how "elderly" is this guy, exactly? He appears slight and has thinning hair.

You know... like Al Capone.

The assumptions people make.... on the basis of , essentially, nothing !

[WorseBeforeBetter]

39. Exactly.

The guy with the bag looked more as if he were trying to *reason* with the older guy. It almost looks as if it might be a parking dispute. Or a dispute over something, but not a mugging.

[demmiblue]

43. I agree.

The older guy basically sucker punched him.

[MrMickeysMom]

30. Sure, they could have shot him...

But, he kicked their fucking ass instead.

Enough is enough, if you know what I mean.

[3catwoman3]

31. That clip needs the entertainingly primitive...

...graphics from he old Batman TV show - BAM!! POW!! (Tell me you'e not humming the theme music now.)

[stone space]

37. I don't understand all the cheering going on here.

Is there some reason to believe that there was an attempted mugging here?

Or do we just enjoy seeing folks get punched out?

[Smarmie Doofus]

41. I think you know the answer to that question. n/t

[Jamaal510]

40. They went "Night Night"

like on that one song from Consequence.

[uponit7771]

42. ....that's one of the strangest "muggings" I've seen