Toxic Masculinity: 88-Year-Old British Korean Vet Comes to Aid of Woman Accosted by Knife-Wielding Thugs

Apparently they thought they would just flash the knives and there wouldn't be a fight at all.

They were wrong. This guy, at four times their age but also four times their Testosterone levels, decided they would have to fight after all.

They made the classic mistake: They brought knives to a real-life fist-fight.

John Nixon, who fought in the Korean War, said he stepped in when he noticed five youths grab a woman's handbag and clothes while walking down Raglan Street, in Kenthish Town, last month.

"My initial thoughts were to divert their attention away from the girl who was screaming. I shouted 'eave her alone,'" he told the Evening Standard. "But they turned on me, saying ‘We’ll take your money instead,' and I said, 'No you don't' Kids this age are full of bravado, you see, they weren’t expecting a surprise."

Nixon said his military training kicked in and he fought back at one of the suspected thieves, slugging one in the neck.

"I disabled one but another pulled out a knife so I had to try and deal with him too," he continued. "I tried to disarm him and in the process I got stab wounds here, there and everywhere. There was a lot of blood. He wasn’t trained and it was more of a pocket knife. Luckily my wounds were shallow."

The punks fled. The hero went to the hospital to have his wounds cleaned.

"Fear is not part of my vocabulary," he later said.

I'm as taken with this guy and his uncommon valor as the liberal Republican cucks are with Jake Tapper and his courageous retweeting of the stupid things they write on Twitter (while never actually bringing up any of these points on his actual tv show).

posted by Ace at 06:24 PM

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