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Korean Tourists Floor Robber With Taekwondo

Would-be baddie thanks cops for saving him from beating

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 3, 2009 11:52 AM CDT

(Newser) – A group of South Korean tourists thwarted a robber yesterday in Rome with some cool Taekwondo moves that left him terrified, ANSA reports. The man assailed the group with a knife and grabbed a handbag, but one of the Koreans decked him before he could... Read full story »

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