I’ll finish today’s Great Britain triple header (see the earlier stories here and here) with one that should make us feel a bit better about things across the pond:

War veteran, 88, foiled knife-wielding intruder by grabbing him and forcing him out of his home

Threatened by a knife-wielding junkie who burst into his home and demanded money, 88-year-old war veteran Jan Babik did not flinch.

Instead, the steely pensioner responded by grabbing the raider, trying to shake some sense into him and then chasing him out of his home.

Babik was born in Poland, captured by the Soviets, and sent to England in 1941 as part of the amnesty after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war. He served as an RAF radio operator during the war.

He said the intruder “wasn’t a very athletic man.”

That’s awesome.

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