I always like the UL about the little Japanese octogenarian assaulted by a gang while taking a walk in the park, and having nothing to defend himself with except a walking cane. Oh, and being a Kendo master, too.
But I feel for this Marine, all right. For the reasons already stated very capably.
<Yoda voice>Mess with me you won’t.</yv> 
Another hat tipper, and one who hopes that Mr Autry won’t let this take the joy from his life.
As almost everyone here knows, I’m a Yankee liberal. However, being a 5’3" Yankee liberal, I always enjoy stories of an innocent person, involved in an overwhelmingly unfair confrontation, somehow managing to overcome those nearly impossible odds and emerging as the winner.
And I’ll add my name to the growing list of hat-tippers for Mr Autry.
Airman Doors, USAF and Arnold Winkelried - I know you were joking, but I hope no legislator is so assinine as to even think of introducing any more restrictions on self-defense. Then again, maybe I’m hoping for too much. 
I think that the town should honor him. I hope that the surviving gang members get charged with felony-murder, the one where you get charged with murder if you commit a felony and somebody gets killed.
I normally like to cut people some slack, even if they are committing a crime, but these freaks! A man running off and screaming, and they were *still * trying to kill him. I hope that the wanna be gang members will take a clue, but for clueless people, that is a too tall order.
C’est la vie!
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I wish I had a link, but the story is old, I remember years ago a guy tried to rob a convenience store in my city, and the clerk was a well-trained martial artist, female martial artist.
The guy crawled from the store to police to get away from her.
Yes. I use that video in my school to demonstrate the effectiveness of a brachial plexus stun.
And I salute Mr. Autry. He did the right thing.
Is anyone else reminded of the opening of A History of Violence? Let’s hope no shady characters from Mr. Autry’s past come looking for him! :eek:
Seriously, though, another hat-tip to the man from me.
What’s the “brachial plexus”?
It looked like he went upside the pimp’s head.
Thank you, I was wondering what that was that knocked him on his ass so completely. He couldn’t even walk!
Wow, he dropped like a bag of shit tossed from a highrise. Where exactly did Mr. Lee strike the pimp to incapacitate him like that?
It’s a group of nerves that originates in the spine and runs through your armpit and into your arm, thus innervating the arm.
There was another case of “picked the wrong store to rob” recently that was caught on the store’s security cameras. The cashier was the owner of the store, a short, slender middle-eastern man in his mid-30’s (Israeli, I think). He was very well-trained in hand-to-hand fighting, and the would-be robber only had a knife. Well, he had it for about three seconds! The owner chased the robber out of the store, then took a photo of the thief’s license plate with his cell phone. The thief was caught later that day.
I went to get my mum’s old bobble woolen hat just so I could tip it. Good on Mr. Autry.
Well, it looks like the karate guy delivered a blow to the temple with his left arm.
It’s hard to tell what the right arm was doing, but it might have struck pimpy there.
Even so, it looks like the blow to the head was the knock out blow.
Well, if we’re bringing up movies, these thugs should have watched Under Siege; the guy is a former Marine cook. “You’re no cook !” “Well, I also cook.”
To me, it looked like the blow caught Mr. Angry Pimp in the side of the neck; though with the low quality of the video it’s hard to tell. A good solid forearm or knife-hand to the side of the neck will knock a man down.
Wouldn’t it have been better to shout “cease fire”?
I’m not sure if this is meant as a serious question, or just a pun, Mellivora capensis. On the odd chance that it is meant seriously: I recall having heard that more people will bestir themselves to respond, and try to help, for a call of “Fire!” than any other potential call.
It seems that Mr. Autry has heard this, too.
