A one-handed grandfather has been praised for stopping an alleged jewellery thief at a shopping centre in Chile.
Raul Munoz was with his wife at the Las Condes shopping centre in Santiago when he encountered the teenager.
He saw the alleged shoplifter running towards him and took him down with a karate-style kick captured on CCTV.
The 84-year-old retired engineer, who lost his hand in his 20s, banged his head on the floor after tripping up the boy and was taken to hospital for treatment.
“After that, my wife did not speak to me for about four hours,” he said, according to carbonated.tv. “I was punished. She asked me, ‘But [why] do you do these things?’”
Raul Munoz
Raul Munoz on the ground
He added: “It was instinctive. If I think, I do. I threw the kick and then I forgot the world.”
His wife, Guillermina Fuentes, said after the incident: “I thought he was dead, he did not respond, nothing.”
After the have-a-go hero was knocked to the floor, a shop worker managed to detain the runaway suspect.
Many have praised the Mr Munoz’s ‘brave’ actions on social media and the grandfather is now recovering from his fall.
Police later arrived at the scene and arrested the teenager and his mother.
Meanwhile, when this grandad was offered an 'elderly seat' on the Tube – his response was amazing.
This elderly couple have been praised for their random act of kindness to help young man at a train station.
Source: Telegraph
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