An American pensioner with a sword fought off a robber with a pitchfork who made his way into his house (2 photos)

The fight between the two men was bloody, but effective.





71-year-old resident of the city of Seattle (Washington, USA) returned home from the store and already from the threshold noticed that things were not on their own places. Then he found the kitchen window broken, and in the living room - an uninvited visitor armed with a pitchfork. You live well the pensioner did not want to part with his good, so he rushed to cracker. He was younger (10 years) and more agile, so he knocked down his grandfather on the floor and hit him in the face with a pitchfork, injuring his eye. The victim succeeded break out of the clutches of the robber and slip into his room for a gun.



However, the weapon misfired, so the brave grandfather grabbed stands a samurai sword and slashed the attacker, who after that is here ran out of the house. The arrived police detained the robber. He was given first aid, but the wound was not life-threatening.

By the way, the brave pensioner had previously had to defend your home from intruders. In the fall of 2021, they broke into him immediately three, and one of the attackers received a bullet wound.

The robber will be placed in the King County Jail after will be discharged from the hospital, and the police say that the safest the option would be to just call for help and not try to act on one's own. "Get to a safe place, call the phone 911. Wait for the police to arrive," advises Judinna Gulpan, an employee public affairs officer for the Seattle Police Department, apparently implying that the landlord was imprudent in trying to deal with the robber on your own.