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Rule #27: Don't break into an ex-boxer's house!
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First off, I should apologise for posting a Daily Mail article. Sorry.

The battered and bruised face of a burglar who got on the wrong side of a 72-year-old former boxer
A knife-wielding burglar had a shock when he attacked a pensioner in his home - and discovered his victim was a retired boxer.
Senior citizen Frank Corti, 72, a former junior boxing champion is still a bit handy with his dukes.
And when he spotted the aforementioned intruder, Gregory McCalium, in his hallway he sprang into action and delivered two right hooks.
The blows were so powerful that McCalium, who had just lunged at Mr Corti with the knife, was left looking like he had been in 'a car accident'.
The pensioner then restrained him until police arrived. He was jailed for four and a half years yesterday after a judge told him he had 'got what he deserved'.
After sentencing, Mr Corti said: 'I was scared when he first drew the knife but most people would have acted in the same way. If you can't defend what's yours, where are we at?'
Oxford Crown Court heard the break-in was the culmination of a long-running dispute over noise between the neighbours, who live in Botley, Oxford.
McCalium, a barman, was having a rowdy party at his house on August 18 last year when police turned up after a complaint from a neighbour.

McCalium assumed it had been made by Mr Corti - who won the National Association of Boys' Clubs Championship in Birmingham when he was 16 - and broke into his neighbour's home at 8am the following day.
Mr Corti, who was with his wife Margaret at the time, dodged out of the way of his attacker's lunge and punched him, giving him a black eye and a split lip, before subduing him.
McCalium was found guilty of aggravated burglary at a trial in March, during which he had claimed he could not remember the incident.

John Simmons, defending, said Mr Corti, who served with the Royal Engineers in North Africa from 1956-58, had received minor injuries during the confrontation.
He added: ' Photographs of the defendant showed what looked like a car accident and photos of the scene looked more like a murder scene.'
Recorder Angela Morris said: 'Luckily, Mr Corti was an able-bodied 72-year-old who was able to defend himself.

'The jury might well have concluded you got what you deserved when you entered that property and took a swipe at him with that weapon.
'The elderly and vulnerable people are entitled to demand the protection of courts from people like you who decide to take matters into your own hands and enter a property with a weapon.'







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I believe what the judge was trying to say is "pwned".

Personally, I think it's awesome. Stupid people who do stupid things like lunge at old men with a knife should have the snot beat out of them.

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The burglar is a lucky man...Some of us never learned how to box and we're too tired to fight anyway; we'll just kill you...Ben

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I like this too. nod.gif  Well done Frank!

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We should give him some sort of award!

I hereby pronounce Frank Corti Duke of Punching.

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