Another “Don’t mess with oldtimers”

wrong car

A Polish thief got more than he bargained for when he tried to steal a pensioner’s car – and the owner turned out to be a karate black belt. Wojciech Chomicki, 71, spotted him trying to make off with his car, ripped open the car door, flipped the 41-year-old thief out of the driver’s seat and pinned him to the ground with a choke hold while a pal called police.

A spokesman for police in Plock, northern Poland, said: “He saw the man breaking into his car from his kitchen window, ran outside and had him completely disabled on the floor as quick as a flash. When officers got there he seemed quite relieved to be released from the man’s grip. The thief picked the wrong car to steal.”

Chomicki has been a qualified teacher in Shotokan karate for more than 30 years and has been studying it for more than 50.