Burglar picks home of 53-year-old who’s a marathon runner - and has a Black Belt
Dumb crook du jour.
A would-be burglar met his match when he tried to elude Margo Foster, a marathon runner with a black belt in karate who also knows kickboxing and kung fu, police said.
On Friday morning, the 53-year-old Lighthouse Point resident returned home from tennis practice to find an intruder rummaging through her bedroom.
Without thinking twice, she said in an interview, she bolted through the living and dining rooms and followed the startled man out to the backyard. Police said he had one of Foster’s backpacks strapped on his shoulders, filled with her property. She wanted it back…
As related by Foster - after a seven-block chase - the intruder began to climb a 6-foot-high wooden fence, when she “grabbed him by the neck, ripped him off the fence.. threw him to the ground, and put my knee to his chest.”
The two struggled for a few minutes, Foster in her white tennis skirt, before the burglar dropped the bag and started running again.
Foster followed - flagged down a motorist with a cell phone and called the cops - who arrived and arrested the thief.
“I outran the kid,” said Foster. “He had no cardiovascular system.”
And as we always get to say - he had no brains either.
Posted: Mon - January 21, 2008 at 10:40 AM