# Wrestling champ pins down attempted child kidnapper at convenience store **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509 "2020-03-28T11:48:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/1 "2020-03-28T11:48:17Z")
What does it take to stop a drugged up, crazy guy from abducting 3 children? It’s quite an amazing video. Several people at the gas station tried to intervene and help this lady & her kids. The guy in the red hat tried holding the door closed to prevent the crazy guy from entering the store. Red hat guy takes a few hits to the face and retreats. Finally the wrestling champion appears and quickly body slams & pins the crazy guy. I wish the take down had been on camera. You can see the wrestler easily pin down the crazy guy. > **[Mayfield wrestling champ pins down suspected kidnapper at convenience store](https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2020/03/26/mayfield-wrestling-champ-pins-down-suspected-kidnapper-chuckys-store/5082784002/)** > > A Mayfield student is being lauded as a hero after helping to stop an alleged kidnapping and assault. > [@](#): > > Canaan Bower was filling up his truck with gas at Circle K when he noticed the commotion across the street at Chucky’s. Troy Bower, Canaan’s dad, told the Sun-News that his son soon realized that something wasn’t right. > Troy said Canaan told him he witnessed a woman on the phone, screaming for authorities to help, and a man attempting to kick down an employees-only door. > \ > “So my son — who just won the wrestling district championship weeks ago — just came up behind this guy and body-slammed him and got him in a chokehold and waited for the police to show up,” Troy said. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/2 "2020-03-28T13:25:11Z")
Video won’t play. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/3 "2020-03-28T14:06:48Z")
It plays fine for me. Shrug. I found the same video on YouTube. The wrestler is understandably being called a hero. He quickly put this crazy guy down. But Red hat guy deserves a lot of credit too. He held the doors shut against this POS for over 20 seconds. Then took a fist in the face and blood hits the floor. I wonder if it broke his nose? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SL07S9cF50g/hqdefault.jpg "Real Live super Hero (RIP) Surveilance video: District Wrestling Champion Saves the Day") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL07S9cF50g) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/4 "2020-03-28T14:14:18Z")
We hear so much about people not getting involved and helping during a crime. All the people in the store tried to stop this guy from grabbing those kids. They just didn’t know how to quickly take him down. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/5 "2020-03-28T14:18:16Z")
Video worked fine for me. There were a LOT of heroes in that place! And I am so grateful for every single one! But the young kid, the wrestling champ? He came from across the street, walked into the store, and immediately took charge! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/6 "2020-03-28T14:20:26Z")
And give some credit to the ladies. I think green top helped hold him down for a bit after the wrestler took him down and hit him a couple times with the wet floor sign, and orange shirt booted him in the head and was ready to do it again. All in all, strangers working together. Nice. Didn’t maintain proper social distance, however… ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/7 "2020-03-28T14:27:09Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > Video won’t play. It looks like it won’t play in Chrome, but it plays in Firefox. The news video includes the outside stuff, preliminary to inside the store, but **Aceplace57’s** link in post #3 is only the inside part. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/8 "2020-03-28T14:29:19Z")
I use Chrome, and it played for me. And I’m the person that things NEVER work for! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/9 "2020-03-28T14:52:03Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > We hear so much about people not getting involved and helping during a crime. Sadly there is too much chance of getting sued or shot by the bad guys these days. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/10 "2020-03-28T17:11:38Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > I use Chrome, and it played for me. Further testing has revealed that my ad-blocker, Ghostery, prevented the video from executing. This doesn’t always happen, so I like to leave Ghostery on to reduce the amount of on-screen spam. Most video links are not affected. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/11 "2020-03-28T18:55:22Z")
Seems odd that they sent only one cop in. I’d have expected a team of several at least. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/12 "2020-03-29T04:23:20Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Further testing has revealed that my ad-blocker, Ghostery, prevented the video from executing. This doesn’t always happen, so I like to leave Ghostery on to reduce the amount of on-screen spam. Most video links are not affected. That may have been the issue on my end as well. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/13 "2020-03-29T18:45:17Z")
Best part: Woman decides the yellow caution sign is not getting her point across, so she goes and get a wine bottle. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/14 "2020-03-29T19:33:41Z")
That lady was so jacked up on adrenaline. I was afraid our hero might get bashed by mistake. 😉 She was itching to whack that crazy guy. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrestling-champ-pins-down-attempted-child-kidnapper-at-convenience-store/850509/15 "2020-03-30T13:51:43Z")
When I started the video. I thought it was paused. Red hat was motionless. Once things got started, I immediately saw that wet floor sign as a potential weapon. Edge-on, that would do some real damage. A good kick to the crotch while he was pinned down could have taken the wind out of his sails, too. If you are justified in striking someone, give it all you’ve got. Great job by all.