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2003 Reader Submission
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Empoli, ITA Some chinese thieves break into an apartment owned by fellow chinese immigrants. They immobilize their victims, two women and a man, and start looking for valuables. They don't find more than a few dollars and some euro.

The rest of the story seems a typical B-movie plot: the man frees himself. He is a martial arts expert, so the thief that attacks him with a knife gets stabbed to death. The other ones try to flee, but our hero really wants to clean up his country's gene pool, so he chases them, kills another one, and seriously wounds a third. Another accomplice is currently wanted by the police.

Unfortunately, Italian law prohibits to emulate Bruce Lee, so the man has been accused of "excess of legitimate defense".

References, in italian: http://ilrestodelcarlino.quotidiano.net/art/2003/10/12/4840652

Or other news sources: http://news.google.it/news?hl=it&edition=it&q=ladri+appartamento++cinese

Note: my non-technical english prose may suck. Just like my technical one.

Submitted on 10/12/2003

Submitted by: Marcello
Reference: italian news tv, oct 11

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Loren said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
We need the bad guys to get the message, they can't always get away with it!


Jack said:
Neutral: Honorable Mention
In the past, we've given credit (at least for an Honorable Mention) for snatch-and-grab thiefs who tried to outrun an Olympic track team, and for thugs who tried to play martial arts with a seventh dan black belt, so I think that this is worthy. Let the readers decide?


Daniel said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
One assumes that a martial artiste of this capability would have some neighborhood reknown. Theives; know your victims!


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