Fred Kemp and his wife had just finished dinner Thursday night. As they walked out of the restaurant, a man came out of the darkness, demanding money.

At this point in the story, many people would say the proper course of action would be to “just give him what he wants”.

But this robber picked the wrong guy. Turns out 63-year-old Fred Kemp, is a former wrestler.

Failure of the victim selection process.

Thinking of his wife’s safety, the 5-foot-7 Kemp instinctively pushed the gun away. But the robber started to pistol whip Kemp in the head, police said.

Kemp didn’t give him what he wanted, but he gave him what he was asking for….

“He started to hit me, so I reacted from there,” a bruised but smiling Kemp said Friday. “I got him out into the street and held his arm. I foot-sweeped him down and I was trying to get a hold of the gun. He banged me up a little bit but my main concern was the gun.”

Pulling out more wrestling moves, Kemp maneuvered the suspect into a rear naked choke hold, or “sleeper hold,” a popular submission technique in mixed martial arts.
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“He asked me to let him go when I had him down,” Kemp said. “I said, ‘No, I’m not going to do that.'”

See? You don’t give them what they want. Period. 🙂

(full story, h/t Fark)