Ancient Ex-Marine Beats Up Pickpocket, Everyone Awwws

What is it about old men beating up young guys that is so charming? Violence, on the whole, is to be avoided at all costs, but when a senior citizen puts five in the kisser of some young punk, it loses all its frightening overtones.

Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash.

He immediately grabbed the person’s wrist with his left hand and started throwing punches with his right, landing six or seven blows before a store manager intervened.

I went to look up the famous Buzz Aldrin punch (thrown into the face of a man who called him a “coward and a liar” for faking the moon landing) and it ended up being the first item Google suggested in my Firefox search when typing in “Buzz Aldrin.” Dude walks on the moon, but his old man punch is going to end up being his legacy.

Ex-Marine teaches pickpocket a lesson [News.Yahoo.com/AP]
Buzz Aldrin punches guy in the face [Youtube]