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Tucson
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Date Posted: 00:44:07 08/18/11 Thu
Here in Texas we have a saying don't mess with an old man he will kill you.
>The following story appeared on Yahoo sports. It
>reminded me of Gil Evachevski and his self defense
>group.
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>63-year-old holds off robber with rear naked choke
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>A robber messed with the wrong man in Florida on
>Thursday night. 63-year-old, 5-foot-7 Fred Kemp used a
>foot sweep and a rear naked choke to disarm a robber
>who pointed a gun at Kemp and his wife.
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>The couple was getting into their car in Boynton Beach
>when a man came out of the darkness and approached
>them with what turned out to be a pellet gun. Wanting
>to keep his wife safe, Kemp returned to the skills
>that he learned as a wrestler for Hofstra University.
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>"He started to hit me, so I reacted from there," a
>bruised but smiling Kemp said Friday. "I got him out
>into the street and held his arm. I foot-sweeped him
>down and I was trying to get a hold of the gun. He
>banged me up a little bit but my main concern was the
>gun."
>
>Kemp's quick thinking led him to apply a rear-naked
>choke, then when the robber was weakened, he took the
>gun from him. The police report mentioned that Kemp
>held the robber down until the police arrived.
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>"He asked me to let him go when I had him down," Kemp
>said. "I said, 'No, I'm not going to do that.'"
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>Fighters who started as wrestlers often go back to
>rely on their wrestling skills when they get in
>trouble in a fight. Clearly, that instinct sticks with
>them, because Kemp was smart enough to rely on his
>sport when danger found him. Joe DeMeo, a friend of
>Kemp's through wrestling, was not surprised to hear
>that Kemp took out the criminal.
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>"Fred Kemp's the last guy I would rob," DeMeo said.
>"He'll go down fighting. … He does have a lot of
>physical ability. He's a no-nonsense, get-the-job-done
>kind of guy."
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>Remember that the next time you approach a diminutive
>63-year-old. It's probably not a good idea to mess
>with him.
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