Watch: 85-year-old man fights off burglars carrying hammers and a sawed-off shotgun

Get 'em gramps!

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Well heck I was close. Looking here it seems to be 80yds for a hole. Though most par 3 courses I have seen are pretty much that.

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Would have been in his 30s, so yeah. Combined with his age, completely fearless.

(Dara O’Briain suggests another way to stop a punk in Ireland: just tell him, in a soft voice, “I know yer mum.”)

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Unless he spent his younger years abroad as a mercenary, not very likely.
He was 6 years old when WW II (in which Ireland was neutral) started.
Ireland joined the UN in 1958 (i.e. after Korea) and has sent troops on various UN peacekeeping missions since then, but unless he was in the Congo in the early 1960ies, not much opportunity for wartime action.
You don’t get ranked fourth on the Global Peace Index for nothing.

I wouldn’t put it past him to have been in a fair share of pub brawls, though.

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All bets are off.

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i stand corrected. but i bet you’re right about pub brawls.

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Never take experience of years for granted, never.

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He risked his life for the owner’s money. Good worker. Good!

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Welp, time to enact hammer-control legislation…

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“Youth and enthusiasm won’t defeat experience and treachery”

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Me thinks I have a bit of that in me.

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“It’s hammer time!”

“Here - have a seat, junior.”

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Ah, thank you. I appreciate the explanation.

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