Former Marine Pummels Pickpocket

Don’t mess with former Marines.  Especially those that were Golden Gloves competitors.  One pickpocket crackhead found this out the hard way when he was crushed into a bloody heap at a convenience store.

From the AP here:

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.

Barnes served in the Marines, was an accomplished Golden Gloves boxer and retired after 20 years as an iron worker.  Barnes was a regional runner-up in Golden Gloves competition in the novice and open divisions before enlisting in the Marines in 1956.

“There was blood everywhere,” said another manager on duty, Abby Ostrom, 25.