“I’ve had fights and scuffled when I was younger, but when he was coming at me I thought I couldn’t back down,” the former construction foreman told The Times of London. “There was no one there to help me. It was either me or him and I won.”

An 84-year-old British man armed only with a pair of trousers beat back a mugger half his age who tried to rob him at a laundry in northern England. Ron Croker was drying his clothes last week when the masked thug accosted him at the unstaffed Coin-Op Launderette in Maltby in South Yorkshire.

This is the moment an 84-year-old man fought off a robber by whipping him with a pair of jeans inside a launderette. Ron Croker, was inside the Coin op Launderette in Maltby, South Yorkshire, last Tuesday at 7.30am, when suddenly a masked robber burst in and demanded money.

Police said the suspect, identified as Lloyd Smith, 42, has been charged with attempted robbery. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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