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Hero In Florida Fights Off Armed Burglars With Machete

Hero In Florida Fights Off Armed Burglars With Machete

They picked the wrong house!

Laura Hamilton

Laura Hamilton

Imagine if your house was being burgled. Would your first instinct be to grab a long knife and defend your ground?

That's exactly what this heroic Floridian man did. Check it out in the video.

Credit: Sarasota Sheriff's Office

Personally, I would hide and phone the police - that's the sensible, safe thing to do. But then I don't even have a machete.

Five men have been arrested in Florida after an attempt to rob a house went spectacularly wrong. Like, the worst actual outcome of any robbery.

Not only did they not manage to steal anything, or run away unscathed, but their victim managed to hold court and disarm one of them. The odds were on their side, too; it was three against one and they had the element of surprise.

Three men were in the footage but five, Alen Beltran Vazquez, Ronier Jaurgui-Lorente, Angel Cabrera-Basulto, Jorge Valido-Leyva and Roberto Salcedo-Balanza, are now facing time in prison - worst thieves ever.

So what exactly happened? Three men walked into the house with a crowbar, a machete and a shotgun... sounds a bit like the beginning of a joke, doesn't it?

But when they shouted for the man to hit the floor, they had no idea that the punch line would be on them.

As you can see on his home security camera, he dashed off and left the burglars wondering where he'd gone. But when he came back... it all kicked off.

ABC News said the homeowner was: "in fear for his life and retreated to his residence and grabbed a machete." Well, yeah, that's what you do when you're terrified; get the machete out.

Credit: Sarasota Police

Anyway, this hero ran after the three men and managed to disarm the one with the shotgun and pin him to the ground. And his son got involved, too. He grabbed a giant hockey stick and attacked the robbers, and the mum is also involved.

The badass father even wrenches the shotgun away from the wannabe robber and throws it away.

By then, Sarasota Police arrived and arrested everyone. The five men are in the county jail without bail and have admitted to trying to rob the property.

No one is gonna try and pull a fast one on this man anytime soon. Well done, pal.

Featured Image Credit: Sarasota Police

Topics: America, robbery, USA