Judo team kicks carjacker's ***

[redman]

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4:47 AM PDT, August 19, 2002

Judo Club Members Beat Up Carjacker

By KATE BERRY, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES -- Florida judo club members beat and doused an alleged carjacker with gasoline then handed over the grimacing, moaning 20-year-old to police officers.

Tyrone Jermaine Hogan, of Los Angeles, held his ribs Sunday and winced in pain as TV news crews recorded his arrest.

"The boys are punching him in the face and I wanted to go around for a choke, to choke him out, but I didn't want to risk getting punched in the head, so I started pounding him from the back," said Christina Baldacci, a Florida International University judo club member.

The Florida judo club members weren't Hogan's first alleged victims.

At 1:30 p.m., Hogan allegedly carjacked a couple, punching the driver, in the face, pulling him out of his Nissan and driving away with his wife in the passenger seat, said police Sgt. Karlene Gibson.

Hogan allegedly tried to steal the woman's purse. Failing, he shoved the woman out of the car. Witnesses followed him but lost sight of him.

Hogan reappeared about six blocks away at a Hollywood gas station.

Meanwhile, the athletes, who were in town to teach a self-defense class, had taken a tour of Hollywood just before stopping for gas on their way to Los Angeles International Airport to return home.

One of the student athletes told police Hogan began harassing another couple before making eye contact with him.

Hogan then asked a team member for money and reached into their rented minivan to try and steal the car keys.

But the match was a mismatch.

"We had this guy like a pretzel on the ground," said Nestor Bustillo, the team's judo instructor.

During the scuffle that broke out between Hogan and a half-dozen team members, the nozzle of a gasoline pump broke off, making the situation dangerous, Bustillo said.

"We were wrestling around, there was gas pumping out and we were trying to subdue this guy," he said.

Hogan was arrested for investigation of felony carjacking, kidnapping and robbery, said Sgt. Allen Hamilton. He was held in lieu of $1.2 million bail.

Some of the judo club members who were doused with gasoline during the scuffle took showers at the LAPD's Hollywood station before the club caught a flight to Miami.

They showed this on the news Sunday night, and the carjacker still looked dazed. He probably didn't figure there was a problem until after his *** was on the ground. LOL at Christina kicking his sorry ***! :laugh:

[Sarge]

Maybe all the LA cops should start letting a van of judo students trail them around and take care of people like this. Sad part is, the carjacker will probably sue everybody and win a few billion from the judo guys, not because he broke the law, but because he was baeten as a child, or his Mommy breast fed him til he was 12, his enviroment was bad, or..............

[Brave]

This reminds me of one of those "stupid criminal" episodes I saw just last night. Cracked me up big time. Here's how it went:

Guy goes in to a fast-food chicken joint to rob it ... with a golf club! You're getting the picture of his intelligence already, aren't you? Anyway, two of the employees rush him, take the club away and beat the living sh!t out of the guy. Before he can leave a third employee throws hot fryer oil all over the guys back. All of this is caught on the restaurants security system (video and audio). As the perp manages to get back over the counter and is trying to crawl out of the place he is followed, kicked and punched all the way, by the spunky workers. Footage cut off at the door. He was still on the floor and still taking shots.

Perhaps he should get a job ... it might be less painful.