Police say a house intruder broke by means of the entrance door of a residence in an remoted rural space of South Carolina. Nonetheless, the tables have been turned when the suspect realized that the house owner was a WWE heavyweight champion.
“Hacksaw” Jim Duggan has a great deal of expertise manhandling opponents within the World Wrestling Leisure ring. In truth, the wrestling Corridor of Famer received the very first Royal Rumble and received the primary U.S. heavyweight championship of World Championship Wrestling. This ability set got here in useful when he got here face-to-face with a house intruder.
Duggan, 68, instructed Fox Information that he was watching tv and his spouse, Debra, was baking when a commotion disrupted their quiet night.
“We dwell method out within the nation in South Carolina, most likely 200 yards off the principle street, down a dust street. It was completely darkish,” Duggan stated. “I’m watching TV, she’s making the mattress. And hastily there’s this enormous pounding on our door,” the legendary professional wrestler stated. “We’ve got glass doorways. Our yard is all fenced in. It’s 70 yards from the street.”
A person in his mid-20s began banging on their entrance door, breaking by means of the glass and tripping into their entryway. Inside an prompt, Duggan summoned his years of coaching.
“As I run to the lobby, the man is available in however journeys over our step and falls in. I swap on able to seize him and he goes, ‘No, no, assist me, assist me.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ And I seize him and I threw out onto the porch and I’m pondering it’s a house invasion and this man is only a diversion.”
Duggan didn’t know if the person was half of a bigger dwelling invasion plot or if he genuinely wanted assist, so he took each precaution.
“In order my spouse is watching him, I seize my gun. It simply occurred to be a .44 Magnum – the outdated ‘Soiled Harry’ gun which is a fairly intimidating weapon. I had that in my hand, ready for another person to come back. Nobody else confirmed up. This man is screaming, ‘Assist me, assist me, they’re gonna kill me.’ So now I’m pondering different individuals are coming after to kill him.”
Duggan’s spouse known as 911 whereas he held the person “down unfold eagle on the entrance porch” at gunpoint, rigorously anticipating different potential threats. Armed and alert, he waited till the police arrived to take over the state of affairs.
Duggan defined that he heard a number of different voices shouting threats as he held the intruder at bay, suggesting that the suspect might have been telling the reality.
“Different individuals within the street have been yelling, ‘We’re gonna get you, we’re gonna get you.’ I had no concept what the state of affairs was or what this man delivered to my home however thank goodness for the good response to the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Division.”
Fortunately, Duggan stored a cool head, rigorously monitoring the intruder whereas concurrently defending him from any potential hazard.
“If it was later at evening as a result of it was completely darkish I woulda been popping out of the bed room as a substitute of the lounge, I woulda had a loaded gun with me,” he stated. “However this fashion, I got here into the lobby, he was already in the home, I grabbed him and thew him out. And by the point I grabbed the Magnum, issues slowed down sufficient and I noticed he wasn’t a menace. Thank goodness I didn’t shoot him or something as a result of it woulda been a horrible factor to dwell with however the man did break into our home.”
After officers eliminated the suspect and cleared the property of any menace, Duggan and his spouse headed to mattress. He then instructed her that they “don’t have to go to the flicks anymore” as a result of the encounter was extra action-packed than something within the theater.
Duggan proved that his expertise prolong far past the boundaries of a WWE ring. Years of tossing his opponents off the mat meant {that a} dwelling intruder was no match for him.
Extremely, Duggan not solely managed to save lots of a house intruder who was probably in peril, however he additionally protected his household on the similar time. Whereas it’s true that not all heroes put on capes, they generally don heavyweight championship belts and wave an American flag.
