Man, 74, breaks thug’s wrist
02/08/2004
Johnnie Moors, 74, who sorted out an attacker with a ju jitsu hold.
Bloemfontein - A thug has learnt a painful lesson from a pensioner: Ask if you need something, but if you grab, you’ll get what you deserve. A broken wrist will remind him of this for the rest of his life.
Johnnie Moors, 74, used his knowledge of Eastern martial arts, which he mastered more than 50 years ago, to get two young robbers to flee within seconds - one of them so badly injured that he won’t be able to steal again soon.
Moors was on his way to buy a Lotto ticket on Saturday when he was grabbed by two robbers near his house. The two probably are still wondering why they did anything so foolish. Moors said: "They probably thought, ‘The old man with the grey hair is a soft touch’.
"One grabbed me around my waist. I grabbed his arm in a ju-jitsu hold and flicked the wrist back. "If it hadn’t been for the wall behind me, I would have broken his arm. "I heard and felt his wrist breaking. He yelled: Itshu!. I could feel something was broken, by the way he screamed.
“When he started pushing and shoving me, I pinned him to a wall. The second one came from the front. I wanted to kick him in the right place, but managed to kick him away, anyway.” While he was “dealing” with the first thug, the man was shouting so loudly that both of them took to their heels within seconds.
Moors learnt the “gentle art” of ju-jitsu in Kroonstad from master Loubser when he was 19. That was back in 1948. More than half a century later he demonstrated the iron grip that had the assailant wailing. “There are certain things one just doesn’t forget,” he said.
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