Miscellaneous news items.

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Boys with 'Warrior Gene' More Likely to Join Gangs (http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090605/sc_livescience/boyswithwarriorgenemorelikelytojoingangs)


Boys who have a so-called "warrior gene" are more likely to join gangs and also more likely to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, a new study finds.

"While gangs typically have been regarded as a sociological phenomenon, our investigation shows that variants of a specific MAOA gene, known as a 'low-activity 3-repeat allele,' play a significant role," said biosocial criminologist Kevin M. Beaver of Florida State University.

In 2006, the controversial warrior gene was implicated in the violence of the indigenous Maori people in New Zealand, a claim that Maori leaders dismissed.

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Seattle bank teller chases robber, loses job (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hIv4UvN__tvsr-Jq_P_0lnvX9TTwD99QSNMO0)


A Seattle bank teller has lost his job because he ran down a would-be bank robber and held him until police arrived. Jim Nicholson, 30, who had worked for more than two years at a Key Bank branch near the Seattle Center, says he understands the bank's strict policy that employees comply with robbery demands and avoid confrontations.

But he told The Seattle Times that instinct took over when a thin man in a beanie cap, dark clothing and sunglasses pushed a black backpack across the bank counter on Tuesday and demanded money.

Nicholson threw the bag to the floor, lunged toward the man and demanded to see a weapon. The man bolted for the door with Nicholson in pursuit.

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Obese Texas inmate hides gun in his flabs of fat (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_fat_hides_gun)


An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh.
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The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that Vera was originally arrested on charges of selling illegal copies of compact discs.

The 500-pound man was searched during his arrest and again at a city jail and the county jail, but officers never found the weapon in his rolls of skin. Vera admitted having the gun during a shower break at the county jail.

Well, there are worse places you could hide a gun on yourself when going to prison...

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Md. Double Stabbing Was Self Defense, Police Say (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090302946.html?hpid=moreheadlines)


Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a College Park man accused of fatally stabbing one man and wounding another during a domestic dispute last month, according to police and online court records.

Roberto Edmundo Cruz, 45, was cleared of a second-degree murder charge after investigators found the incident to be "a case of self defense," police said. According to online court records, he was released from jail on August 26.

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Gary Moscowitz, Rabbis Teach Temple Self-Defense Classes (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/04/gary-moscowitz-rabbis-tea_n_277554.html)



The New York Post reports that a group of "badass rabbis" is teaching a synagogue self-defense course to terrorist-wary temple-goers. Lessons include "how to take down a terrorist by the neck, how to use a table as cover from gunfire and how to execute a nifty running somersault while drawing a gun."

The group, known as the International Security Coalition of Clergy, is lead by Rabbi Gary Moscowitz, a former NYPD cop, who says things like "Jews are not like Christians... if I turn my cheek, I'm coming around to make a kick."

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Cops: Suspect falls asleep, hostages flee home (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32813796/ns/us_news/)

Man was wanted in connection with killing in Colorado (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32813796/ns/us_news/)



Two newlyweds held hostage in their eastern Kansas home on Saturday escaped unharmed when the man holding them captive fell asleep, after they gave him pillows and a blanket, authorities and family members said.

Jesse Dennis Dimmick, 23, was shot and injured when confronted by officers as they stormed the beige, one-story ranch-style house in Dover, a tiny town about 15 miles west of Topeka. Police said Dimmick — wanted in connection to a homicide in Colorado and burglaries in three states — crashed his car into the couple's front yard after leading police on a chase.


If self-defense means giving a man a pillow...give him a pillow!

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Woman uses judo throw to hurl car thief to ground (http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090915p2a00m0na021000c.html)



A woman used a judo throw to overpower a man who attempted to steal her car here early Tuesday morning, police said.

"I was desperate," said the victim, Mariko Yamauchi, 45, a housewife from Daito, Osaka Prefecture.


The suspect, 24-year-old Ryo Aoki, was arrested for robbery resulting in injury.
[...]

Yamauchi hurled the man onto the ground using a judo technique called "tomoenage" after wrestling with him for several minutes. She suffered slight injuries after being hit by Aoki on the face and stomach.


Aoki had been reportedly restrained by Yamauchi and unable to resist by the time officers arrived at the scene in response to an emergency call from a passer-by.


Yamauchi, who also has a rank of third dan in karate, was on her way to a sports club with a 46-year-old woman.

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Stickups and Burglaries Are on the Rise—at Work (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431804574539754148537802.html)



Around 6 p.m. on Oct. 27, two men entered a Houston business establishment and robbed the place while holding a pregnant employee at gunpoint. The robbers made off with an estimated $500, plus $50 and a cellphone from Karina Monita, the expectant mother.
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The location wasn't a bank or convenience store—cash-heavy businesses that typically attract thieves. It was Don Francisco Insurance & Services, a quiet insurance company that generally keeps little money on hand, according the owner, Francisco Diaz. Local police say the perpetrators, who remain at large, are suspected of robbing at least 29 other insurers in the area since May.


These days thieves are really reaching. As traditional targets for theft have beefed up their security and the recession has driven people to desperate measures, robbers are infiltrating corporate offices. Many of the incidences involve small companies with ground-level offices that offer easy access. And sometimes the perpetrators are armed, heightening fear among office workers who thought their sleepy cubicle farms were safe.

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The Officer in Uniform Is Real; The Badge May Be an Impostor (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/nyregion/01badge.html?hp)


Perhaps no tool in police work holds the legal or emotional significance of the badge, a few ounces of nickel alloy that is covered by an insignia and a shield number. Badges are routinely handed down from father to child in police families. As rookies, officers are taught to guard them closely and generally to keep them on hand, on duty or off.

But in New York, a city that has become almost synonymous with high security, where office employees wear picture IDs and surveillance cameras are on the rise, some officers don’t wear their badges on patrol.


Instead, they wear fakes.



Called “dupes,” these phony badges are often just a trifle smaller than real ones but otherwise completely authentic. Officers use them because losing a real badge can mean paperwork and a heavy penalty, as much as 10 days’ pay.

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Area women learn basic self-defense in wake of recent crime (http://www.kcby.com/news/local/78273612.html)



East West Karate in North Bend was the site for the free course taught by karate instructor Jason Reiss on Saturday.

Part of the idea for the course came after two separate acts of violence against women over the past month in Coos County, left one dead and one in critical condition.

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Martial Arts Training for Indian Police (http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_asia/2009-12-03/933537486850.html)




"We are giving special training to our Tamil Nadu commandoes. Already we are giving training to the NSG Black Cats. Our main instructors in Delhi they are teaching them in self-defense techniques. We are teaching the personnel from CRPF, Assam Rifles, Indo-Pakistan border police and Border Security Force."

During training, under the watchful eye of ace martial arts instructor Kyoshi Maesra, the uniformed personnel are learning the latest Kubodo methods on arresting criminals and restraining people.

This training workshop has been an extended part of an international Kubudo seminar.

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Self defense techniques for children (http://www.wptv.com/content/specialreports/story/self-defense-kids-fighting-chance-rick-seid-wptv/zUnme9O9uky1CFm1yuaDVg.cspx)


And you do not need years of martial arts training. He says the moves that may save a child's life are natural responses. Seid instructs children to attack the tender targets of an attacker such as the face, throat, groin and shins.



He says a swift unexpected kick to the shin usually gives the child a few extra seconds to run away.




I teach the same, but I have to wonder...saying it usually works for a child is a strong statement. I'd suspect that usually the child doesn't kick with enough force to make that happen. Here again I'd like to see a study, some statistics, to back up the advice given so cavalierly.






Clearly a child will often never be able to take down an attacker but Seid says they don't have to. They just have to be able to buy themselves a few seconds.


This I certainly agree with...and it's a great reason for even a young kid to have a cell phone with them and on to reach 911 in those few seconds.

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67 year old crazy vet defends self vs 50 year old drunk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTp_f15TfzA

Follow up videos
Viet Nam Tom goes whacko and gives bogus info in interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5fnjFVPCek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csQjo6iInIU

The guy who got beat down is interviewed on the radio and is apparently slingin some bs too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I1r3dhMUO4

Despite who started what, the clash happened fast and the response was quite effective.

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While searching for something on tasers I stumbled across a page with this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zAcxAXPLZY&feature=player_embedded

Here's another one said to be of Russian police, with two great stop-kicks followed by, of all things, a jumping kick to the chest by another officer. I love the confidence of the cop in the pale blue shirt:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4v2GEVYPIA&feature=related

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http://faketv.com/

This is a small device that makes light flashes that look like there's a big HDTV on in the room so your house looks lived-in while you're gone. It's a step up over timer lights, I suppose!

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Where a Cop's Beat Includes a Tarmac (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303591204575169803460495206.html?m od=WSJ_ArtsEnt_Travel)


The TSA finds banned items in carry-on luggage several times a day on average at LAX. Most knives are simply confiscated. But officers will arrest people carrying illegal weapons like switchblades and guns. TSA mandates that local police always be within a five-minute response time to a TSA checkpoint, but LAX stations officers at desks behind screening lanes full-time.


Typically, when a weapon is discovered in a bag, the owner says he or she simply forgot it was there. On a recent day, a 63-year-old woman carrying brass knuckles designed to look like a children's toy said her husband gave the item to her and she forgot she had it. The woman was questioned by police and released to catch her flight after TSA confiscated the potential weapon.

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Defending the Self-Defense Case (http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/0/f587d7d10c34fff2852572b90069bc3c?OpenDocument)



Was the Client’s Belief Reasonable?
“[D]etached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of a knife.”
– Brown v. United States,
256 U.S. 335, 343, 41 S.Ct. 501, 65 L.E.2d 961 (1921).

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Police: Woman bites man after being called fat

(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36832037/ns/us_news/)


Flood said officers later learned that the injured man and two others had been arguing with other people at the birthday party. Flood says the man told 21-year-old Anna Godfrey that she was fat.

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Officers said Godfrey then tackled the man and took a bite.


This sounds liek a very preventable situation to me!

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Fan tasered after running onto field in Philly (http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/05/fan-tasered-after-running-onto-field-in-philly.html)


I loved this "just before" picture:944 (http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/05/fan-tasered-after-running-onto-field-in-philly.html)

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Bungled Burglary Hard to Swallow (http://blog.trutv.com/dumb_as_a_blog/2010/05/bungled-burglary-hard-to-swallow.html)


Lois Harvey tried to rob a bank in Columbus, OH yesterday, according to Buckeye State cops.

What did her in?


The uniformed police officer waiting in line behind her.

Harvey, pictured, allegedly handed a teller a note demanding cash and threatening to kill the bank employee and detonate a bomb. As she waited for her ill-gotten booty, she noticed the cop waiting in line behind her, unaware of the crime going on.



Harvey, 40, then tried to leave the bank, but tellers alerted the officer of the attempt and he ran outside to apprehend her.

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Parking attendants trained to watch for terrorists (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iYTXjWXPgWkvZOrAQa0jNoq-YQdgD9FMPHP00)


Parking attendants and meter maids could be the nation's latest line of defense against terrorist attacks.

A new government program aims to train thousands of parking industry employees nationwide to watch for and report anything suspicious — abandoned cars, for example, or people hanging around garages, taking photographs or asking unusual questions.


Organizers say parking attendants and enforcement officers are as important to thwarting attacks as the two Times Square street vendors who alerted police to a smoking SUV that was found to contain a gasoline-and-propane bomb.
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Would-be terrorists may attempt to gain access to sensitive places or materials by applying for jobs or asking employees strange questions, said Jeff Beatty, a former FBI and CIA agent who led the training in Las Vegas.


Seems like good thinking...but it amazes me what we're doing to adapt to the new realties.

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John Albert Gardner's Tears an Act, Expert Says (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/15/earlyshow/saturday/main6486302.shtml)



Gardner was sentenced to two consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole for killing Chelsea King, 17, and Amber Dubois, 14. He also got a 25-year minimum for the attempted rape of Candice Moncayo, a jogger who was able to escape by smashing him in the nose with her elbow.


I hadn't heard of the jogger escaping before this, or hadn't appreciated that she successfully defended herself at least. From another story (http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-03-17/local-county-news/crime/candice-moncayo-talks-of-attack-similar-to-chelsea-kings#ixzz0o1IoJ04a):


Moncayo said her assailant tackled her at the end of her run, pinned her to the ground and threatened to kill her. She screamed and he told her to shut up, but she refused. Moncayo told him if he wanted to rape her, he’d have to kill her first, she said.


“He told me that could be arranged,” she said calmly.



He swore at her and shook her “like you’re not supposed to shake a baby,” then she bashed him in the face with her elbow, she said.


“He grabbed his face and turned away from me and yelled some things, and I got up and ran faster than I think I ever ran in my life,” she said.[...]
The day after the attack, she went running again, this time with a pit bull.


“I felt if I didn’t get back on the horse right away, that I never would,” she said.



I found myself wondering if she knew any martial arts or was just willing to fight back. She did have some training, according to this story (http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/2855):



Candice Moncayo, a jogger attacked last December in the same park where King vanished, has positively identified John Gardner as her assailant[...]
According to an account written by Moncayo’s sister for the Silver Spur, a Rancho Bernardo High School paper, Moncayo was tackled while running through the park and thrown to the ground. The attacker demanded money, then “picked her up by her shoulders, shaking her relentlessly, which left bruises,” when told that she had no money. Moncayo, who had training in martial arts, fought back by elbowing her attacker in the nose. The move stunned him long enough for her to escape.

DNA evidence swabbed from her elbow reportedly matched Gardner’s—which also matched a DNA sample on Chelsea King’s underwear found near Lake Hodges.

He later claimed (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37165893) while in the courtroom that she didn't successfully hit him. There are more details and a screen hot of the woman here (http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_bf032eb1-8155-5219-b75a-dc2334555be0.html).

If you're running a martial arts school and teaching useful material with liveness in your training, you're doing something good! This woman: a.) escaped unharmed, b.) remembered to not wash so she could give a DNA sample, c.) described the assailant for police, and c.) identified the assailant after his arrest. (Police stepped up patrols in the area where it happened and arrested him there from her description.) This is an individual who raped and murdered two girls (and had previously been convicted of forcibly molesting another) and who would have done the same to her...and others if not for this woman's actions.

Oh, and if you've ever been guilty of saying (or thinking) that a woman can't beat a bigger man...this guy is doing two terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, one term of twenty five-years to life imprisonment, and an additional twenty-four years' imprisonment, and the jogger is still jogging.

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Cops: Woman forced to perform sex act shoots suspect with own gun (http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/05/cops_woman_forced_to_perform_s.html)



A woman told police she was walking in Fort Pierce when a man on a bicycle approached and offered her money for sex.



She declined.


She said the man, later identified as Major Lee Barnes, 19, then pointed a handgun at her and told her to take off her pants. She said he searched her private area for money and stole her cellular phone[...]
Barnes then ordered the woman to get on her knees and perform a sex act on him. Intimidated by the man, she did as she was told.

During the sex act, the man put the gun in his pocket “as he put his arms back in an apparent relaxed gesture,” the arrest affidavit states.


She seized the opportunity and grabbed the gun, then pointed it at him. When he charged toward her, she fired. The man fled the area.

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Teen saves little brother from kidnappers (http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-attempted-kidnapping-052110,0,7664325.story)

Two young boys fought back during an attempted kidnapping on the southwest side. Now, police are searching for the men who tried to grab them. (http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-attempted-kidnapping-052110,0,7664325.story)


"He grabbed me by my wrist, then I was trying to fight him off," said Tyler.

Older brother Nigel was a few steps behind. Nigel pulled his brother away, and pinched the man on his arm.

Reporter: "Just like that? Then he let go?

Nigel: "Then he had my jacket and I took that away."
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What made the kids fight back? It could have been instinct, but a few months back the boys took a "child escape" course, a one-hour course at a karate studio at 38th and High School Road.

"They showed them different ways how to get away from someone that grabs them, what to do in situations like that," said their mother.

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Mass. writer who kicked gun from RFK's killer dies (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hGHhpA0LkaA10u-1KRhSrzq0Y8_QD9G611800)


A longtime reporter and editor for the Boston Globe who is credited with kicking the gun from the hand of Sen. Robert Kennedy's assassin has died. Robert L. Healy was 84.The Boston Globe says Healy died Saturday of a massive stroke at his home in Jupiter, Fla. He had served at the paper as executive editor, Washington bureau chief, political editor and columnist.
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Healy was the last reporter to speak to Kennedy the night of his assassination in June 1968. He is credited with kicking the gun from the hand of Sirhan Sirhan after the assassin was wrestled to the floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.



When I read he had kicked the gun from his hand I was picturing something much more Billy Jack at first!

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Taser used to subdue man with sword (http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3806793/Taser-used-to-subdue-man-with-sword)


Police used a taser on a Coromandel man today after he inflicted injuries on himself using a sword.



Police were called to a residential address in Te Kouma, at around 10.30am where a male was "using a sword and other weapons to inflict injuries on himself", a police statement said.

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Police to review officer's actions in videotaped punch (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012122660_coppunch16m.html)

Seattle police will conduct a review of the Monday confrontation in which an officer punched a teenage girl in the face after she shoved him. The incident was captured by a witness on video. (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012122660_coppunch16m.html)


I watched the video at this link. His actions seemed very reasonable to me--she was very resistive and a friend of hers was also helping her resist at the point in question. I'm actually surprised he didn't pepper-spray her or something.

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Rising above crime amid the South Africa World Cup (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0619/Rising-above-crime-amid-the-South-Africa-World-Cup)

Inspired by the birds, one man built a thief-proof house without alarms, electric fencing, or security beams in crime-ridden South Africa, host of the 2010 World Cup. (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0619/Rising-above-crime-amid-the-South-Africa-World-Cup)


Fed up with being burgled, entrepreneur Jelle Mijlof decided to combat crime by designing and building his own thiefproof house. The result was a curious-looking, goblet-shaped family home with stunning views over Cape Town and something quite rare in South Africa: no alarms, electric fencing, or security beams.

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When Neighbors Help Neighbors Fight Crime (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-dimond/when-neighbors-help-neigh_b_642175.html)


On a bright sun-shiny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina a few weeks ago there was no time for a girl we'll call Sally to ask for help. As this 18 year old daughter jogged along the streets of her university town she was suddenly set upon by a fiend. A car rolled up, a would-be kidnapper jumped out and hit Sally in the face with a blast of pepper spray.



She didn't have time to ask for help but Sally's neighbors stepped up anyway. Two brothers, Joey and Freddie Shelton ran to her aid. They are American heroes in my book.

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Blinding laser beam newest police tool (http://www.king5.com/home/BLINDING-LASER-BEAM-NEWEST-POLICE-TOOL-98973794.html)


One of the newest and most unusual less-than-lethal weapons to hit the market is the "Dazer Laser." It’s a powerful laser gun that can temporarily blind and disorient a suspect with a large modulating pool of green light.


"If you can impair their vision where they can’t effectively target or locate you, you're controlling them, you have those couple seconds you need, which in law enforcement is a year," said Ryan Battis, who demonstrates the weapons to police departments for Laser Energetics, Inc. of New Jersey.


The Dazer Laser is being pitched to police across the Northwest as a safe alternative to tasers, which can cause burns, or pepper spray, which has to be deployed at close range.

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Lawrence woman fends off large man's attack (http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12001953700684/lawrence-woman-fends-off-attack-from-large-man/)



A Lawrence woman who said she had never been in a fight in her entire life fended off an attack from a much larger man late last month.

She’s 5-foot-1 and barely more than 100 pounds, but full of fight.

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The mother of three was caught off guard when a man snuck into her home late at night and grabbed her from behind.



“It was like covering his whole face, was a gray t-shirt,” said Marchessault.



Chief John Romero of the Lawrence Police Department said 47-year-old Edgardo Montes planned to rape Marchessault.

[...]
Marchessault kicked Montes down a flight of stairs, severely spraining his knee. She then punched his face so many times that she hurt her own hand.



“Then when we were halfway up the driveway, my hand was killing me, so that’s when I picked up the trash barrel and then just kept whacking him in the head,” said Marchessault.

[...]
“He couldn’t get up anyway. He kept trying to get up and I just kept stomping on his leg,” said Marchessault.



Montes, who is already a Level 2 sex offender for a 1995 rape conviction, is back behind bars.

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One thing about many self-defense classes offered, and martial tactics taught to LEOs etc., is that they aren't practiced daily. Will they still work? Well, I'm amazed at how often I can still pull off a technique I learned in wrestling 30 years ago. This story is about weight-lifting but sheds some light on the matter:

Muscles remember past glory (http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/62297/title/Muscles_remember_past_glory)
Extra nuclei produced by training survive disuse (http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/62297/title/Muscles_remember_past_glory)


Pumping up is easier for people who have been buff before, and now scientists think they know why — muscles retain a memory of their former fitness even as they wither from lack of use.


That memory is stored as DNA-containing nuclei, which proliferate when a muscle is exercised. Contrary to previous thinking, those nuclei aren’t lost when muscles atrophy, researchers report online August 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The extra nuclei form a type of muscle memory that allows the muscle to bounce back quickly when retrained.

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Suspects With Face Tattoos Make Things Easy for Police (http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/suspects-with-face-tattoos-make-things-easy-for-police/19584493)

There are several examples given, but I liked this one best:


Earlier this year, police in Pueblo County, Colo., easily locked up a home-invasion suspect after the victim told officers one of the attackers had the words "East Side" tattooed across his upper lip. The suspect, 20-year-old Anthony Brandon Gonzales, also has the numeral 13 inked across his chin.1000

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Rider Asks if Cabby Is Muslim, Then Stabs Him (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/nyregion/26cabby.html?_r=1)


Once the fare, Michael Enright, a 21-year-old film student who had been recently trailing Marines in Afghanistan, settled in the back, he started asking friendly enough questions: Where was the driver from? Was he Muslim?
The driver, Ahmed H. Sharif, 44, said he was from Bangladesh, and yes he was Muslim.

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Passerby thwarts sex assault (http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Passerby-thwarts-sex-assault-102254779.html)


At about 3:45 a.m. on Saturday morning, an 18-year-old woman was walking near Sargent Avenue and Langside Street when she was approached by an unknown man.


The man attempted to start a conversation, making some small-talk comments to suggest that he knew the woman, police said Sunday. When she ignored his advances, the man grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her into a nearby back lane, where he began taking off her clothes.


The woman began screaming and resisting the attacker. Her screams drew the attention of an unknown passer-by, who saw the struggle and started yelling, "What are you doing?" at the attacker.


Once spotted, the suspect fled.


Yes, you still need an answer for the wrist grab--and it needs to be something you can do while a larger person is dragging you by them.

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83-Year-Old Marine Fights Off Teen Attacker (http://wbztv.com/local/marine.fights.teen.2.1900362.html)



An 83-year-old marine fought off a teen who allegedly broke into his Yarmouth home last Monday.

According to police, 19-year-old Alan Menchin of South Dennis allegedly broke into the man's South Street home and attacked him with a glass candlestick as he sat in the living room watching TV.

The unidentified victim's wife ran downstairs when she heard the commotion and immediately called police. But before police could arrive, the retired U.S. marine and WWII veteran fought back against the teen, and drove him out of the house. "It was quite a fight," said Yarmouth Police Lt. Steven Xiarhos. "There was blood splattered throughout the house, broken glass basically signs of a violent attack."

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Dog Gets Award For Saving Sex Attack Victim (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100925/tuk-dog-gets-award-for-saving-sex-attack-45dbed5.html)



Jake, a former rescue dog, was on a walk in a park with his owner when a woman's screams were heard in the distance.


The fearless hound darted off into a woodland area and found Esmahil Adhami, 18, molesting a woman, aged in her 20s.


Jake lunged at Adhami and chased him away - and stayed with the distraught victim, circling her "like he was guarding", until the police arrived.