Suspected burglar accidentally stumbles on MMA fighter's home, instantly gets put in chokehold
There are plenty of reasons why you shouldn’t commit a residential burglary even if you are a habitual career criminal.
Between ubiquitous home security systems, angry dogs, and good old Castle Doctrine, it’s a pretty good way to end up arrested, badly injured, or in the worst case for the criminal, six feet underground.
All this, it would seem, is obvious, and it explains why the U.S. crime rate in 2016 was just half what it was 25 years before.
But, of course, anything less than a 100 percent decline means there are still people out there breaking into houses, and every so often some would-be criminal gets a nasty surprise when he breaks into the wrong house.
Which brings us to San Diego, where according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, MMA fighter Sergio Hernandez Jr. came upon a burglar breaking into his father’s home Monday morning.
The burglar claimed he was in Hernandez Sr.’s yard because he was running away from a dog, but Hernandez didn’t buy the story and called the police.
The suspect, figuring out what was afoot and not wanting to be anywhere near the area when the squad car showed up, legged it out of there.
Or, well, he tried to.
Hernandez caught the crook, put him in a headlock with his legs, and said, “don’t move, I don’t want to put you to sleep, bro.”
Hernandez told the Union-Tribune “I felt bad for him. That’s when he tried to escape and I did a judo throw into a triangle hold.”
The whole thing was captured on video as well.
https://www.facebook.com/FOX10Phoenix/videos/10155960831393525/
Hernandez has been doing Jiu Jitsu for 13 years, holding a black belt in the martial art, and he has taken those skills into the cage to apply them against trained fighters who are more than just criminals smashing windows and trying to take what isn’t theirs.
What’s even more ridiculous? The would-be thief didn’t even actually take anything.
Police arrived on the scene, took the suspect into custody and then did a cursory security sweep of the house.
And while the home was ransacked as if the thief were looking for something he didn’t actually find — money? Drugs? Mickey Mantle 1952 rookie card? — nothing was actually taken.
Meanwhile, a son did his father proud by protecting his house, and video of a guy getting a proper beatdown published to a major social media outlet might just do a little to help drive America’s crime rate down even further. And maybe would-be burglars will see it and think twice about risking breaking into the home of a guy whose son can beat them senseless.
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