armed intruder beaten in head with golf club

[Liberal_in_LA]

picture of intruder's bloody head at link

They returned inside, where the woman gave suspect Keon Kim, 26, her wallet, Corona said. Unsatisfied with the $120 he found inside, Kim, a Korean national, took the woman into the bathroom and demanded to know who else was home, police said. She told him her boyfriend was.

When Kim left the bathroom to find the woman’s boyfriend, the woman screamed, waking her boyfriend.

The two men, Corona said, began to fight, throwing punches and scratching. The altercation spilled into the bathroom, then back outside the apartment -– all while the suspect kept control of his gun.

The boyfriend called out to his girlfriend to call 911. On her way back outside, she came across a golf club. She dashed outside with it and struck the man twice in the head so hard that the club broke into two.

“At that point, he manages to get up,” Corona said. “And he decides it’s time to go home.”

But the boyfriend chased him down to the second floor, where they continued fighting until police arrived.

Kim was taken to a hospital, where he was treated for head injuries and brain swelling, Corona said.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/10/armed-intruder-in-koreatown-beaten-over-head-with-golf-club-.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/10/armed-intruder-in-koreatown-beaten-over-head-with-golf-club-.html

[leftstreet]

1. Oh....I read your thread title wrong

:-)

[truebrit71]

4. Me too...got me to thinking 'how on earth did they manage that?'

:evilgrin:

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. come on now! The rest of us have clean minds

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. oh yeah????

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. thread renamed!

[WillParkinson]

2. Wow...

Um....just wow.

(Yeah, I read the title wrong, too.)

[ecstatic]

3. I want to buy a baseball bat for protection nt

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Hope it didn't damage the putter. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. it broke in 2

[frylock]

8. i love a happy ending

:hide:

[Lance_Boyle]

9. If you're going to commit armed robbery, don't use an unloaded gun.

I love the bit about "throwing punches and scratching" though - paints a vivid picture of what the fight must have looked like.

[truebrit71]

11. I got held up at gunpoint in a store I ran once...when my employee's showed up for the afternoon...

..shift the first question one of them asked was "was it loaded?"...I told him i forget to ask..

[Lance_Boyle]

15. My point is not that the resisting couple was unwise to resist (they may have been)

but that the attacker was beyond stupid to attempt armed robbery armed only with a prop.

[truebrit71]

21. Oh I agree with you...Ijust thought it was funny that my employee's first thought was...

..."were there any bullets in the gun"?

[petronius]

13. Strange, I thought that only happened in porn movies

Unless I've misunderstood the headline... ;)

They're lucky this guy was a very unskilled robber...

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. thread renamed!

:-)

[TygrBright]

16. If golf clubs are outlawed, only outlaws will... oh, never mind. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

17. I love a happy ending!

:)

[pipi_k]

18. The only problem I have with this is...

that they had a right to defend themselves, and he got what he deserved, but when the guy got up to leave they kept beating on him.

They should have left him alone and waited for the cops to come.

[grace0418]

23. Did he still have her wallet? The article didn't say. If he did, I say they had to right

to do what they did.

[Jamastiene]

19. I wish one of the gun holster manufacturers would make her an

honorary holster for golf clubs. I love it!

[KamaAina]

20. Tiger trying to reconcile with his ex?

:evilgrin:

[rocktivity]

22. A REAL golf club?

Oh, phooey--I thought this was going to be porn!

:(
rocktivity