{"id":54816,"date":"2019-09-26T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=54816"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:32:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T13:32:14","slug":"hero-homeowner-fights-off-four-armed-raiders-with-flurry-of-punches-to-protect-wife-upstairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/hero-homeowner-fights-off-four-armed-raiders-with-flurry-of-punches-to-protect-wife-upstairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero Homeowner Fights Off Four Armed Raiders With Flurry Of Punches To Protect Wife Upstairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54817 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/intruder-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1862\" height=\"1048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/intruder-1.jpg 1862w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/intruder-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/intruder-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/intruder-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/intruder-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1862px) 100vw, 1862px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A man&#8217;s home security system caught him protecting his family by fist fighting a group of masked intruders, pummeling them until he chased them out of the house with kitchen knives.<\/p>\n<p>Asif Ali, 35, told The Sun \u201cinstinct just kicked in\u201d to defend his wife Charlotte, 30, who was upstairs at the time\u00a0when a group of men gained access to his home in Rochdale around 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman, who works in real estate\u00a0and runs a clothing store for a living,\u00a0said his dog began barking aggressively and he went to his doorway, where he found a man standing inside his home dressed \u201chead-to-toe in black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He threw a punch at me and we started to fight,\u201d Ali told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thesun.co.uk\/news\/10005662\/homeowner-fights-armed-raiders-rochdale-manchester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sun<\/a>. &#8220;A second man came in and I thought he was trying to get upstairs where my wife was. I didn&#8217;t want them anywhere near my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: Heroic businessmen fights off four armed robbers at his home\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZ6kbR9iAZM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Ali released security camera footage of the brawl Wednesday and offered a roughly $6,100 reward for information that leads to a conviction. He added that he fears the men expected a confrontation and invaded his house knowing that he and his wife were home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey knew we were home. The lights were on, the cars were on the drive, the doors were open, and they&#8217;ve come into our home armed, knowing there were people inside, knowing there would likely be a confrontation and knowing they would cause some damage,&#8221; he said.\u00a0&#8220;Someone out there knows who these people are. They need to be caught before they do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man&#8217;s home security system caught him protecting his family by fist fighting a group of masked intruders, pummeling them until he chased them out of the house with kitchen knives. Asif Ali, 35, told The Sun \u201cinstinct just kicked in\u201d to defend his wife Charlotte, 30, who was upstairs at the time\u00a0when a group of men gained access to his home in Rochdale around 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday. The businessman, who works in real estate\u00a0and runs a clothing store for a living,\u00a0said his dog began barking aggressively and he went to his doorway, where he found a man standing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":54817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,619],"tags":[8729,7759,8730],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54816"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=54816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}