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Caught on Video: Store Owner Fights Off Knife-Wielding Attacker…With a Broom

Video: Store Owner Fights Off Knife Wielding Attacker...With a Broom

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A London jewelry store owner bested a knife-wielding attacker with a broom in a scary struggle caught on closed circuit camera.

The owner was working in Harrolds Discount Jewellers in the London suburb of Dagenham when a man grabbed a female saleswoman and held a knife to her throat.

In the video, the owner wrestles with the assailant, freeing the saleswoman, before grabbing a broom and forcing him out, all while avoiding the avoiding the slashing knife.

The attack happened in October, though police only just released the footage.

Detective Chief Inspector Ian Corner, who is leading the search for the suspect, praised the actions of the owner and saleswoman, the BBC reported.

“This was a violent attack which left the shop workers extremely shaken,” he said. “They acted with great courage to fight off the suspect and were lucky to have avoided being seriously injured.”

Comments (28)

  • meeester
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 11:18am

    What a stud.
    No hesitation.
    Hoo-Yah to you, a true Sheepdog.
    Alternatively; in Philly, radio host Michael Smerconish said (approx) “who knows what you would do in a situation like seeing Penn State coach Sanduskybanging a young boy in the ****. Unless you are there you don’t know what you would do”.
    Really?
    Some people don‘t know what the right thing to do is when ’the time comes’.
    btw; he’s also an Obama voter.
    Coincedence?

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  • Ruler4You
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 10:30am

    Gee. In a modern socialized country, too. If this guy needs to file for welfare he should do it.

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  • Ceefour
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:36am

    See…see…….no gun no injuries. (this time)

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    • txbigfoot
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 10:27am

      Your an idiot too. The same as this guy with the knife.
      I can tell your a liberal who who say this and if you had wealth and or a body guard for some reason would say its ok to let them have a gun to protect you.

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  • notreally
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 6:36am

    -01/06 BBC: “If guns are outlawed,” an American bumper sticker warns, “only outlaws will have guns.” With gun crime in Britain soaring in the face of the strictest gun control laws of any democracy, the UK seems about to prove that warning prophetic.
    -7/6/09, the Reports on Crime released by the European Commission and United Nations: In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677. America has a violent crime rate of around 466 per 100,000. Canada is around 935 shockingly enough. Both numbers are dwarfed by jolly old England’s jaw dropping 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 citizens.
    -Personal security was ranked first among an individual’s rights by William Blackstone, the great 18th-century exponent of the common law. It was a right, he argued, that no government could take away, since no government could protect the individual in his moment of need. A century later Blackstone’s illustrious successor, A.V. Dicey, cautioned, “discourage self-help and loyal subjects become the slaves of ruffians.”

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    • Unix
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:13am

      This is what you get when Big Brother takes away your guns! The people become defensless against the criminal element, well not in this case, but it could have turned out much worse had the attacker not been such a wuss!

      Our gov’t better not be planning to take our guns away – that will start a war here my friends, we are not wussified like the Brits, etc…we will NOT be sheeple.

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  • philby
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 3:00am

    Dont ever bring a knife to a gu, er broom fight.

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  • voxoffreedom
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:33pm

    Hmm seems to me the socialist brits will soon be outlawing the use of broom handles for self defence.

    “bama free in 2013”

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  • MUDFLAPS
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:11pm

    would have been so much more fun to see a pink mist where his head was as a 45 passed thru it rather quickly.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:08pm

    I like this guy’s tenacity. He didn’t need a gun. He had a broom. Reminds me of my Mother. If we stepped out of line she would let us have it. Anything makes a good weapon if you get mad enough!

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:48pm

    My broom would go BOOM…fight over….call the morgue

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:38pm

    A BroomHandle Mauser… is much better!

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  • Leeta
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:14pm

    Keep a can of wasp spray where ever you are. In your car, on your desk, on the counter, etc. It sprays 20 feet and aim for the eyes. It blinds the aggressor until they can get to the hospital and get an antidote. It’s better than pepper spray and looks like it belongs. Just a little tip.

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  • bjornskis
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:07pm

    hummmmmmmmmmm

    the crook knows the shop keepers don’t have guns

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  • 1casawizard
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:24pm

    You use whatever to protect life and/or property. Ketchup bottles have been used nicely in the past.

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  • ObserverOnTheHill
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:43pm

    Look out London, now they‘ll make brooms illegal cuz they’re weapons now !

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  • Ookspay
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:56pm

    Londonistan, LOL. No Guns allowed. What a crappy little Island. A broom? Really? Man am I glad my Great Great Great Great Grandfather Peter Wilson left Scotland for the US of A in 1790.

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  • mtnclimberjim
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:41pm

    come at me with a knife you get shot.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:39pm

    .
    Don’t you just wish that old guy was some kinda Kung Fu Master with a Staff. Snap the head off that broom and go Whack-A-Mole crazy on him…………

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  • EPROM
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:14pm

    Paper wraps Rock …Scissors Cuts Paper. …. Rock beats Scissors ……..Broom beats knife!

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:08pm

    Like Arthur Lee said in “7 and 7 is”….Bop, bip, bip. Bop, bip, bip.

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  • IMAWAKENOW
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:05pm

    This is where the remington pump would have been great.

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  • notmeatglennbeckdotcom
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:56pm

    Get a gun! Game over.

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:39pm

    “I gotta a knife”, the attacker yells.
    “I gotta a broom that is 6 feet longer than you knife, Jack-Smacker!” says the shop-keep.
    ha,ha. Never bring a knife to a fight when your victim may be within reach of a broom.
    It would have been great if the shop-keep would have beaten the robber silly with that broom!

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    • Unix
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 9:32am

      I would have shoved the broom handle up his you know what and said fly away now little turd.

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