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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFBqggrd5s Two robbers attempt to rob Domino's Pizza]]. The operative word is ''try'', as it turned out the delivery driver in the store was an armed, off-duty veteran sheriff's deputy working a night job. Entering the store using the old-fashioned bandannas-over-faces technique, the robbers brandished guns and demanded money. Seeing as how they were already armed, the deputy responded in his official capacity, and both robbers ended up getting shot instead. Domino's is not only agreed to his request for two weeks' leave, but is making it paid leave to boot. Humorously enough, the deputy in question is named Film/{{Shaft}}. No word on any resemblances to Richard Roundtree.
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* Yes, the stereotype about how police officers like donuts is to a certain degree true, and, yes, there are accounts of robbers trying to rob donuts shops only to be met by off-duty or, in some cases (when the robbers are *really* stupid) uniformed and on-duty cops.
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* In 2010, a group of forty train robbers stormed a train in West Bengal and started taking valuables from the passengers. One of the robbers then decided to rape one of the women on the train. It turned out that one of the train's passengers was Bishnu Shrestha, a corporal in the 8th Gurkha Infantry. And Bishnu objected, ''sternly'', resulting in him killing several of the robbers by himself with just his kukri and sending the rest fleeing for their lives.
* Attacking someone will usually result in a ''bad'' outcome if the target has a concealed carry permit and is armed.
* Attacking someone will usually result in a ''bad'' outcome if the target has a concealed carry permit and is armed.
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* DolphLundgren is such a [[GeniusBruiser badass]] that, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1173697/Burglars-tie-woman--flee-house-realise-shes-married-action-hero-actor-Dolph-Lundgren.html when robbers broke into his house and tied up his wife]], he managed to [[TheDreaded scare them off without even being physically present]].
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* In 2007 a terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport using an incendiary device failed to take into account the presence of [[ViolentGlaswegian Glaswegians]]. A nearby cab driver intervened, resulting in a magnificent newspaper headline in the Daily Record: "I kicked burning terrorist so hard in balls I tore a tendon in my foot."
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* In 2007 a terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport using an incendiary device failed to take into account the presence of [[ViolentGlaswegian Glaswegians]]. A nearby cab driver intervened, resulting in a magnificent newspaper headline in the Daily Record: "I kicked burning terrorist so hard in balls I tore a tendon in my foot." "
** Subverted when you consider that these individuals considered lighting your car's tyres on fire and driving headlong into a concrete wall an act of terrorism, and then for an encore one of them managed to set fire to his own trousers while attempting to flee the scene.
** Subverted when you consider that these individuals considered lighting your car's tyres on fire and driving headlong into a concrete wall an act of terrorism, and then for an encore one of them managed to set fire to his own trousers while attempting to flee the scene.
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* A semi-common occurrence back when Mongol tribes roamed the Eurasian Steppes was when unknowing travelers would come across a Mongol camp and realize that all the men were off raiding or otherwise occupied, and figured that the women and children would be easy pickings. Right? '''Wrong'''. In Mongol societies ''everyone'' learned how to ride and shoot a bow from the time they could walk, including the women who stayed home to guard the camps, and the travelers would soon find themselves at the mercy of the best horse archers in the world, the descendants of whom are still unmatched even in the era of modern technology.
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* A semi-common occurrence back when Mongol tribes roamed the Eurasian Steppes was when unknowing travelers bandits would come across a Mongol camp and realize that all the men were off raiding or otherwise occupied, and figured that the women and children would be easy pickings. Right? '''Wrong'''. In Mongol societies ''everyone'' learned how to ride and shoot a bow from the time they could walk, including the women who stayed home to guard the camps, and the travelers bandits would soon find themselves at the mercy of the best horse archers in the world, the descendants of whom are still unmatched even in the era of modern technology.
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* Attacking someone will usually result in a ''bad'' outcome if the target has a CCW and is armed.
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* In 2007 a terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport using an incendiary device failed to take into account the presence of [[ViolentGlaswegian Glaswegians]]. A nearby cab driver intervened, resulting in a magnificent newspaper headline in the Daily Record: "I kicked burning terrorist so hard in balls I tore a tendon in my foot."
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* Some young men were routinely killing dogs on their neighborhood and killed one small Labrador. The owner came home, pursued them in his car with a gun, then held them at gun point until the Texas Rangers appeared and arrested them. The men threatened the man who had held them at gunpoint, saying he did not know who he was messing with. The man then had the Texas Rangers reveal to the men who had killed his dog that he was [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30136615/ Marcus Luttrell]], an ex-Navy SEAL, who had won a firefight against roughly 80 Taliban fighters and was the only survivor of the battle, after dispatching every enemy fighter.
* Two "tough guys" [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1274688/Chuck/ tried to rob]] ChuckNorris with knives, under the assumption that what he did in ''WalkerTexasRanger'' [[RealityIsUnrealistic was all fake]]. The two ended up with arms so broken that bones were sticking out. The police didn't even handcuff them, partly out of concern for the thugs' injuries, and partly because they were laughing too hard.
* Two "tough guys" [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1274688/Chuck/ tried to rob]] ChuckNorris with knives, under the assumption that what he did in ''WalkerTexasRanger'' [[RealityIsUnrealistic was all fake]]. The two ended up with arms so broken that bones were sticking out. The police didn't even handcuff them, partly out of concern for the thugs' injuries, and partly because they were laughing too hard.
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* Two "tough guys" [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1274688/Chuck/ tried to rob]] ChuckNorris with knives, under the assumption that what he did in ''WalkerTexasRanger'' [[RealityIsUnrealistic was all fake]]. The two ended up with arms so broken that bones were sticking out. The police didn't even handcuff them, partly out of concern for the thugs' injuries, and partly because they were laughing toohard.hard to get the cuffs out.
* Two "tough guys" [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1274688/Chuck/ tried to rob]] ChuckNorris with knives, under the assumption that what he did in ''WalkerTexasRanger'' [[RealityIsUnrealistic was all fake]]. The two ended up with arms so broken that bones were sticking out. The police didn't even handcuff them, partly out of concern for the thugs' injuries, and partly because they were laughing too
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* In 1999, Maurice Greene was the Olympic medal holder for fastest man in the world over 100m. At the airport, he and his teammates were mugged and the thief tried to run away from them with the bags he'd stolen. It goes without saying that they had no trouble catching the thief.
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* In 1999, a thief stole the wallet of who he thought was a tourist in Seville Airport and ran. That "tourist" was Maurice Greene was the Olympic medal holder for fastest man in Greene, World Champion sprinter who set the world over 100m. At record for the airport, he and his teammates were mugged and the hundred-meter dash. The thief tried to run away from them with the bags he'd stolen. It goes without saying that they had no trouble catching the thief.didn't get very far.
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* In 2008, a suspected serial killer and his crew [[http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/07/23/foiled-lloyd-irvin-home-invasion-thief-suspected-of-being-serial?sms_ss=twitter invaded the home of]] Lloyd Irvin, Muay Thai and Combat Sambo expert and one of the world's top MMA trainers.
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* 1999, Seville Airport. A pickpocket steals the wallet of a tourist and runs away. The "tourist" turns out to be professional sprinter Maurice Greene, then fastest human in the world come for an international athletics tournament, who catches the thief in a matter of (very few) seconds.
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** What's even better is that when he tries to get away, she grabs him by the collar and pulls him back in obviously not finished with him, and when he finally manages to get away she continues to chase him.
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* A ''lot'' of people have picked a fight with someone else, only to find out that person is a soldier or a member of law enforcement and is trained professionally to kick someone's ass.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqYN9YRhUg This video]] linked on BadassAdorable is security footage capturing a man attempting to abduct a little girl. [[LittleMissBadass He really had no clue what was going to happen next]].
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqYN9YRhUg This video]] linked on BadassAdorable is security footage capturing a man attempting to abduct a little girl.girl in an elevator. [[LittleMissBadass He really had no clue what was going to happen next]].
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** The AlluringAnglerfish and other predators that use the strategy attract small fish that think their lure is just a piece of food, when it's actually a giant fish. Or a matamata turtle.
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* In 1890 the three Dalton brothers and two henchmen came riding into Coffeeville Kansas in order to gain fame by robbing two banks at once across the street from each other. Of course there were problems with this scheme notably that before their job was done word got out among the townsfolk. And a typical Western town had a lot more than five people, and an awful lot of guns.
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* In a particuarly amusing example of this trope, two yobs attacked a pair of crossdressers only for the crossdressers to turn out to be a couple of cage fighters in fancy dress. Full story [[http://www.mmauniverse.com/news/SS4727 here]].
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* In a particuarly amusing example of this trope, two yobs attacked a pair of crossdressers only for the crossdressers to turn out to be a couple of cage fighters in fancy dress. Full story [[http://www.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20091011114938/http://www.mmauniverse.com/news/SS4727 here]].here]] (Website/WaybackMachine link).
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* CharlesBronson once related a story in which he was vacationing in Italy, and a mugger came up behind him with a knife and said "You give me money". Bronson turned around and said "No, you give ''me'' money." The mugger ran upon realizing he'd just tried to mug the star of ''Film/DeathWish''.
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* CharlesBronson Creator/CharlesBronson once related a story in which he was vacationing in Italy, and a mugger came up behind him with a knife and said "You give me money". Bronson turned around and said "No, you give ''me'' money." The mugger ran upon realizing he'd just tried to mug the star of ''Film/DeathWish''.
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* DolphLundgren is such a [[GeniusBruiser badass]] that, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1173697/Burglars-tie-woman--flee-house-realise-shes-married-action-hero-actor-Dolph-Lundgren.html when robbers broke into his house and tied up his wife, he managed to scare them off without even being physically present.]]
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* Look up an old series called ''America's Dumbest Criminals'', and watch it to see more examples of this than you can count.
* A variation [[TruthInTelevision occurs in nature]], but with predators instead of muggers.
** Tiger Beetle larva feed on ants, and the ''Methocha'' wasp looks like an ant. When the larva attacks, the wasp wriggles out of the larva's grasp, paralyses the larva and then lays its eggs, which hatch and devour the larva alive.
** The Portia Spider will go to another spider's web and tap on it, most likely imitating a trapped insect. When the spider approaches, Portia rushes it, then quickly kills and eats it.
** Wasps of the species ''Lasiochalcidia igiliensis'' will jump into an antlion pit. When the antlion larva tries to attack it, the wasp lays its eggs, which hatch and devour the larva alive.
* In a particuarly amusing example of this trope, two yobs attacked a pair of crossdressers only for the crossdressers to turn out to be a couple of cage fighters in fancy dress. Full story [[http://www.mmauniverse.com/news/SS4727 here]].
* Somali pirates attacked a French navy command ship[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somme_(A631)]], mistaking it for a cargo ship, leading to the swift arrest of the pirates.
* [[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/04/01/2010-04-01_us_navy_captures_5_somali_pirates_siezes_pirate_mother_ship_off_kenya_somali_coa.html Somali pirates]] in a small skiff fired on what they (presumably) assumed was an unarmed freighter. The US Navy guided missile frigate ''Nicholas'' promptly returned fire with its deck-mounted, water-cooled, .50 caliber machine gun. (The pirates were captured, their ship sunk, and their "mother ship" subsequently tracked down and also captured.)
* In 1993, somewhere in the Pacific, two pirate boats fired machinegun warning shots in the direction of unidentified dry-cargo freighter. And got an auto-cannon warning shot in return, which dissuaded them from trying to board a vessel that's supposed to carry 440 marines. It was ''Nikolai Vilkov'' -- Russian large landing ship. Being a remake of civilian project it [[http://www.navy.ru/nowadays/strength/images/vilkov.jpg resembles a freighter]] with its big crane.
* A man attempted to mug a 77-year-old Air Force veteran, who [[http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=7083552 beat his attacker off with a Pepsi bottle]] after being ''shot in the balls.'' Apparently he's okay except for a slight limp.
* There's a case mentioned in one of John Douglas's true crime books where a serial killer broke into a ranch house and assaulted the couple that lived there. As it was a ranch house ''on'' a ranch, and in Montana no less, the killer should've at least considered the possibility that the residents would keep guns at home. Douglas cites it as one of the few known instances in which a serial killer got killed by his intended prey in real life.
* In 2008, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH8kxDPl6tc two men with machetes tried to rob a club in Australia.]] Inside were fifty members of [[BadassBiker a motorcycle club]], who promptly [[BarBrawl grabbed the bar stools, chased down the thieves and hogtied one of them]].
* In 2010, three men in South Africa, armed with a firearm and and knife, [[http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20100422133102533C543176 attempted to rob some schoolchildren]]. The schoolchildren responded by [[VigilanteExecution stoning one of the assailants to death]].
* Dressing up policewomen like MsFanservice and sending them out to troll for johns is standard practice for vice squads worldwide. Muggers and psychos occasionally fall for their act, and get snapped up by the decoy or her backup.
* This is the entire basis of pedo-hunting, whether by the FBI or Anonymous. You pose as a gullible young girl, wait to be solicited by a child molester, track them down, and either arrest them or just ruin their life.
* In the late [[TheRomanRepublic Roman Republic]] a young UpperClassTwit, who went by the totally innocuous name of GaiusJuliusCaesar, was captured and held to ransom by some {{Pirates}}. While being held prisoner on the ship, the personable Caesar befriended the pirates, and made jokes that when he was ransomed he was going to come back and kill them all. The pirates laughed at their captive's great sense of humor. Later, [[OhCrap they found out he wasn't joking]].
* In 1890 the three Dalton brothers and two henchmen came riding into Coffeeville Kansas in order to gain fame by robbing two banks at once across the street from each other. Of course there were problems with this scheme notably that before their job was done word got out among the townsfolk. And a typical Western town had a lot more than five people, and an awful lot of guns.
* JesseJames came to grief trying to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota in the 1870s. Unfortunately for Jesse, he had forgotten that he was no longer in his usual hunting grounds of Eastern Kansas/Western Missouri...and the locals not only did not include any sympathizers of his, but had their life savings in the bank he was targeting and no sense of humor about losing those savings. [[OhCrap Oops...]]
* An April 2011 incident in Britain had 3 burglars in for a shock when they [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12978065 broke into a house only to find out it belonged to a soldier]] who, completely naked, gave chase to one who tried to make off with his car, complete with breaking open the driver's window with his bare hands!
* [[SmellySkunk Skunks]] are quite unassuming to predators who have never run into one before, and some see them as an easy meal, only to be sent running with a face full of musk.
* Two teenage thieves broke into a van parked in a council estate in Manchester, [[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3544485/Thieves-targeting-vans-on-council-estate-are-confronted-by-four-SAS-men-on-a-stakeout.html only to find that inside there were four SAS men on a night-time counter-terrorism training exercise. ]]
* Some young men were routinely killing dogs on their neighborhood and killed one small Labrador. The owner came home, pursued them in his car with a gun, then held them at gun point until the Texas Rangers appeared and arrested them. The men threatened the man who had held them at gunpoint, saying he did not know who he was messing with. The man then had the Texas Rangers reveal to the men who had killed his dog that he was [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30136615/ Marcus Luttrell]], an ex-Navy SEAL, who had won a firefight against roughly 80 Taliban fighters and was the only survivor of the battle, after dispatching every enemy fighter.
* Two "tough guys" [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1274688/Chuck/ tried to rob]] ChuckNorris with knives, under the assumption that what he did in ''WalkerTexasRanger'' [[RealityIsUnrealistic was all fake]]. The two ended up with arms so broken that bones were sticking out. The police didn't even handcuff them, partly out of concern for the thugs' injuries, and partly because they were laughing too hard.
* [[http://superstore.wnd.com/Shooting-Back-The-Right-and-Duty-of-Self-Defense-book Shooting Back]] recounts an incident where some Islamic terrorists tried to shoot up a church, presumably expecting that they'd be able to slaughter people without resistance. Much to their surprise, Charl van Wyck returns fire, thwarting their attack.
* An example out of Ferdinand von Schirach's ''Verbrechen'' (a book of cases he precided over as a lawyer). Some skinheads decide that a wimpy looking man in a neat suit would be a nice diversion. They ended up dead. It was hinted later, that the guy in the suit was a contract killer on his way home. He had no papers on him, no mark that could identify him - he didn't speak a single word. They had to let him go because they had no evidence and the thing they had on him was clearly self-defense - there were several witnesses to clear him.
* In February 1997 near Warsaw, highway robbers stopped a car. The men in the car turned out to be the coaches of the Russian and Belarussian teams driving home from the world biathlon championship - as in "skiing and shooting". The car was followed by the team bus - as in "fifty Olympic-class marksmen and equipment". Seeing athletes leaving it with rifles, the robbers guessed it's a good time to exit stage right, and quickly.
* [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/anthony-miranda-tried-rob_n_1129836.html A man asks a driver for a lighter then pulls out a gun.]] His victim complied initially...until the mugger let his guard down and showed him why it's a bad idea to mug a MixedMartialArts fighter. He ended up with two black eyes cuts all over his face and a [[GunStruggle self inflicted]] gunshot wound to the ankle.
* In 2008, a suspected serial killer and his crew [[http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/07/23/foiled-lloyd-irvin-home-invasion-thief-suspected-of-being-serial?sms_ss=twitter invaded the home of]] Lloyd Irvin, Muay Thai and Combat Sambo expert and one of the world's top MMA trainers.
* CharlesBronson once related a story in which he was vacationing in Italy, and a mugger came up behind him with a knife and said "You give me money". Bronson turned around and said "No, you give ''me'' money." The mugger ran upon realizing he'd just tried to mug the star of ''Film/DeathWish''.
* One such incident has become [[http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/filk/seeyrsix.htm fondly-recalled lore]] in the SocietyForCreativeAnachronism: After a Society event in New York City, a lady who uses the name "Sir Trude Lacklandia" was walking home late at night and assaulted by several muggers. When she refused to hand over her cash, one tried to stab her with a six-inch knife - only to have the blade turned by the chainmail she was wearing under her woolen cloak. She then drew her (very real) sword, said "I'll see your six, and raise you thirty-five!" before chasing the muggers off. A bard in the SCA afterwards wrote a [[http://deanesmay.com/2010/01/04/ill-see-your-six/ humorous song about it]], which has become quite popular.
* A middle-aged, five-foot-seven Asian man was accosted by two armed, six-footer African-American muggers in late 2011. One mugger was admitted to a hospital with cracked vertebrae and the other had his arm broken in several places. The uninjured Asian man waited for police to arrive while eating takeaway yakisoba on the curb next to the muggers' unconscious bodies. The Asian man was later identified as a fourth-dan Aikidoka.
* In the 1920's a group of five men attempted to mug a well-dressed man and his two female companions. When the police arrived the sidewalk was covered in blood, none of it belonging to the intended victim. The victim was Harry Greb usually ranked either first or second on all-time, pound-for-pound boxing lists who, had by this, time acquired a 261-20-17-1 record.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDjqQFln72E&feature=g-vrec&context=G2e99147RVAAAAAAAADg Around 2008 in Canada]], two rednecks in a pick-up truck come across a guy and his girlfriend in a fancy car. They heckle him with lots of [[ClusterFBomb cursing]] and insults while driving right behind them and filming the incident on their camera the whole time. The guy in the fancy car is eventually cornered by the two rednecks at a dead-end; when the rednecks get out of their truck with a baseball bat and walk toward the guy, the guy [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight pulls out a handgun]] and tells them to back off. The guy's girlfriend takes the camera, and the guy takes the rednecks' truck key and tosses it in a nearby sewer before driving off and later uploading the camera footage to Website/YouTube.
* In the early 1700s, Dick Turpin, famous highwayman, once stopped a gentleman on a coach road and threatened him with a pistol. That 'gentleman' turned out to be Thomas King, ''another'' famous highwayman. King was so ''impressed'' that he took Turpin as a partner and they robbed and murdered on the Essex roads together for two years.
* In 1999, Maurice Greene was the Olympic medal holder for fastest man in the world over 100m. At the airport, he and his teammates were mugged and the thief tried to run away from them with the bags he'd stolen. It goes without saying that they had no trouble catching the thief.
* A thug [[http://www.snopes.com/crime/dumdum/gunshop.asp attempted to rob]] a gun store - with a police car parked outside. ([[TooDumbToLive He didn't survive]].)
* In Lebanon in the 1980s, terrorist groups frequently kidnapped Western diplomats and held them hostage. Not so much with representatives of the USSR. As the (perhaps apocryphal) story goes, there was a reason for that. A terrorist group once kidnapped a Soviet diplomat, then cut off his finger, which was sent to the Soviet embassy in Beirut as proof that they had him. The Soviet response, after a short KGB "investigation," was to send a box to the terrorist leader containing his beloved brother's ''head''. The hostage was swiftly released, and Soviet diplomats were never bothered again.
** The same thing occurred with a group of terrorists who took a Lebanese airliner hostage. After the plane was retaken with no casualties, the Lebanese authorities sat the terrorists in the first row of the first class seats, put towels around their necks, and slit their throats. Never attack a group of people perfectly willing to go ''much'' farther than you.
* Also the burglar who broke into the house of an olympic fencer... while she was training.
* In 2009, a burglar broke into the house that four undergrad medical students were living in late at night. They had already had a Playstation and two laptops stolen earlier that week. When one of the students heard the noise downstairs, he investigated, armed with a ''katana''. When he encountered the burglar, the burglar lunged at him. The med student severed the burglars hand and then slashed him down the torso, causing him to die of blood loss at the scene.
* In 1971, legendary boxer Jack Dempsey was taking a cab home with his wife, and was accosted by a mugger. Apparently, the mugger never knew what hit him. [[BadassGrandpa Dempsey was 78 at the time.]]
* While Creator/BruceLee was making a film, one of the actors, assuming all of his moves were fake, insisted on fighting him. He quickly found out that Bruce Lee was a real life martial arts master, after being quite painfully beaten.
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* Look up an old series called ''America's Dumbest Criminals'', and watch it to see more examples of this than you can count.
* A variation [[TruthInTelevision occurs in nature]], but with predators instead of muggers.
** Tiger Beetle larva feed on ants, and the ''Methocha'' wasp looks like an ant. When the larva attacks, the wasp wriggles out of the larva's grasp, paralyses the larva and then lays its eggs, which hatch and devour the larva alive.
** The Portia Spider will go to another spider's web and tap on it, most likely imitating a trapped insect. When the spider approaches, Portia rushes it, then quickly kills and eats it.
** Wasps of the species ''Lasiochalcidia igiliensis'' will jump into an antlion pit. When the antlion larva tries to attack it, the wasp lays its eggs, which hatch and devour the larva alive.
* In a particuarly amusing example of this trope, two yobs attacked a pair of crossdressers only for the crossdressers to turn out to be a couple of cage fighters in fancy dress. Full story [[http://www.mmauniverse.com/news/SS4727 here]].
* Somali pirates attacked a French navy command ship[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somme_(A631)]], mistaking it for a cargo ship, leading to the swift arrest of the pirates.
* [[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/04/01/2010-04-01_us_navy_captures_5_somali_pirates_siezes_pirate_mother_ship_off_kenya_somali_coa.html Somali pirates]] in a small skiff fired on what they (presumably) assumed was an unarmed freighter. The US Navy guided missile frigate ''Nicholas'' promptly returned fire with its deck-mounted, water-cooled, .50 caliber machine gun. (The pirates were captured, their ship sunk, and their "mother ship" subsequently tracked down and also captured.)
* In 1993, somewhere in the Pacific, two pirate boats fired machinegun warning shots in the direction of unidentified dry-cargo freighter. And got an auto-cannon warning shot in return, which dissuaded them from trying to board a vessel that's supposed to carry 440 marines. It was ''Nikolai Vilkov'' -- Russian large landing ship. Being a remake of civilian project it [[http://www.navy.ru/nowadays/strength/images/vilkov.jpg resembles a freighter]] with its big crane.
* A man attempted to mug a 77-year-old Air Force veteran, who [[http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=7083552 beat his attacker off with a Pepsi bottle]] after being ''shot in the balls.'' Apparently he's okay except for a slight limp.
* There's a case mentioned in one of John Douglas's true crime books where a serial killer broke into a ranch house and assaulted the couple that lived there. As it was a ranch house ''on'' a ranch, and in Montana no less, the killer should've at least considered the possibility that the residents would keep guns at home. Douglas cites it as one of the few known instances in which a serial killer got killed by his intended prey in real life.
* In 2008, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH8kxDPl6tc two men with machetes tried to rob a club in Australia.]] Inside were fifty members of [[BadassBiker a motorcycle club]], who promptly [[BarBrawl grabbed the bar stools, chased down the thieves and hogtied one of them]].
* In 2010, three men in South Africa, armed with a firearm and and knife, [[http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20100422133102533C543176 attempted to rob some schoolchildren]]. The schoolchildren responded by [[VigilanteExecution stoning one of the assailants to death]].
* Dressing up policewomen like MsFanservice and sending them out to troll for johns is standard practice for vice squads worldwide. Muggers and psychos occasionally fall for their act, and get snapped up by the decoy or her backup.
* This is the entire basis of pedo-hunting, whether by the FBI or Anonymous. You pose as a gullible young girl, wait to be solicited by a child molester, track them down, and either arrest them or just ruin their life.
* In the late [[TheRomanRepublic Roman Republic]] a young UpperClassTwit, who went by the totally innocuous name of GaiusJuliusCaesar, was captured and held to ransom by some {{Pirates}}. While being held prisoner on the ship, the personable Caesar befriended the pirates, and made jokes that when he was ransomed he was going to come back and kill them all. The pirates laughed at their captive's great sense of humor. Later, [[OhCrap they found out he wasn't joking]].
* In 1890 the three Dalton brothers and two henchmen came riding into Coffeeville Kansas in order to gain fame by robbing two banks at once across the street from each other. Of course there were problems with this scheme notably that before their job was done word got out among the townsfolk. And a typical Western town had a lot more than five people, and an awful lot of guns.
* JesseJames came to grief trying to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota in the 1870s. Unfortunately for Jesse, he had forgotten that he was no longer in his usual hunting grounds of Eastern Kansas/Western Missouri...and the locals not only did not include any sympathizers of his, but had their life savings in the bank he was targeting and no sense of humor about losing those savings. [[OhCrap Oops...]]
* An April 2011 incident in Britain had 3 burglars in for a shock when they [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12978065 broke into a house only to find out it belonged to a soldier]] who, completely naked, gave chase to one who tried to make off with his car, complete with breaking open the driver's window with his bare hands!
* [[SmellySkunk Skunks]] are quite unassuming to predators who have never run into one before, and some see them as an easy meal, only to be sent running with a face full of musk.
* Two teenage thieves broke into a van parked in a council estate in Manchester, [[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3544485/Thieves-targeting-vans-on-council-estate-are-confronted-by-four-SAS-men-on-a-stakeout.html only to find that inside there were four SAS men on a night-time counter-terrorism training exercise. ]]
* Some young men were routinely killing dogs on their neighborhood and killed one small Labrador. The owner came home, pursued them in his car with a gun, then held them at gun point until the Texas Rangers appeared and arrested them. The men threatened the man who had held them at gunpoint, saying he did not know who he was messing with. The man then had the Texas Rangers reveal to the men who had killed his dog that he was [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30136615/ Marcus Luttrell]], an ex-Navy SEAL, who had won a firefight against roughly 80 Taliban fighters and was the only survivor of the battle, after dispatching every enemy fighter.
* Two "tough guys" [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1274688/Chuck/ tried to rob]] ChuckNorris with knives, under the assumption that what he did in ''WalkerTexasRanger'' [[RealityIsUnrealistic was all fake]]. The two ended up with arms so broken that bones were sticking out. The police didn't even handcuff them, partly out of concern for the thugs' injuries, and partly because they were laughing too hard.
* [[http://superstore.wnd.com/Shooting-Back-The-Right-and-Duty-of-Self-Defense-book Shooting Back]] recounts an incident where some Islamic terrorists tried to shoot up a church, presumably expecting that they'd be able to slaughter people without resistance. Much to their surprise, Charl van Wyck returns fire, thwarting their attack.
* An example out of Ferdinand von Schirach's ''Verbrechen'' (a book of cases he precided over as a lawyer). Some skinheads decide that a wimpy looking man in a neat suit would be a nice diversion. They ended up dead. It was hinted later, that the guy in the suit was a contract killer on his way home. He had no papers on him, no mark that could identify him - he didn't speak a single word. They had to let him go because they had no evidence and the thing they had on him was clearly self-defense - there were several witnesses to clear him.
* In February 1997 near Warsaw, highway robbers stopped a car. The men in the car turned out to be the coaches of the Russian and Belarussian teams driving home from the world biathlon championship - as in "skiing and shooting". The car was followed by the team bus - as in "fifty Olympic-class marksmen and equipment". Seeing athletes leaving it with rifles, the robbers guessed it's a good time to exit stage right, and quickly.
* [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/anthony-miranda-tried-rob_n_1129836.html A man asks a driver for a lighter then pulls out a gun.]] His victim complied initially...until the mugger let his guard down and showed him why it's a bad idea to mug a MixedMartialArts fighter. He ended up with two black eyes cuts all over his face and a [[GunStruggle self inflicted]] gunshot wound to the ankle.
* In 2008, a suspected serial killer and his crew [[http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/07/23/foiled-lloyd-irvin-home-invasion-thief-suspected-of-being-serial?sms_ss=twitter invaded the home of]] Lloyd Irvin, Muay Thai and Combat Sambo expert and one of the world's top MMA trainers.
* CharlesBronson once related a story in which he was vacationing in Italy, and a mugger came up behind him with a knife and said "You give me money". Bronson turned around and said "No, you give ''me'' money." The mugger ran upon realizing he'd just tried to mug the star of ''Film/DeathWish''.
* One such incident has become [[http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/filk/seeyrsix.htm fondly-recalled lore]] in the SocietyForCreativeAnachronism: After a Society event in New York City, a lady who uses the name "Sir Trude Lacklandia" was walking home late at night and assaulted by several muggers. When she refused to hand over her cash, one tried to stab her with a six-inch knife - only to have the blade turned by the chainmail she was wearing under her woolen cloak. She then drew her (very real) sword, said "I'll see your six, and raise you thirty-five!" before chasing the muggers off. A bard in the SCA afterwards wrote a [[http://deanesmay.com/2010/01/04/ill-see-your-six/ humorous song about it]], which has become quite popular.
* A middle-aged, five-foot-seven Asian man was accosted by two armed, six-footer African-American muggers in late 2011. One mugger was admitted to a hospital with cracked vertebrae and the other had his arm broken in several places. The uninjured Asian man waited for police to arrive while eating takeaway yakisoba on the curb next to the muggers' unconscious bodies. The Asian man was later identified as a fourth-dan Aikidoka.
* In the 1920's a group of five men attempted to mug a well-dressed man and his two female companions. When the police arrived the sidewalk was covered in blood, none of it belonging to the intended victim. The victim was Harry Greb usually ranked either first or second on all-time, pound-for-pound boxing lists who, had by this, time acquired a 261-20-17-1 record.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDjqQFln72E&feature=g-vrec&context=G2e99147RVAAAAAAAADg Around 2008 in Canada]], two rednecks in a pick-up truck come across a guy and his girlfriend in a fancy car. They heckle him with lots of [[ClusterFBomb cursing]] and insults while driving right behind them and filming the incident on their camera the whole time. The guy in the fancy car is eventually cornered by the two rednecks at a dead-end; when the rednecks get out of their truck with a baseball bat and walk toward the guy, the guy [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight pulls out a handgun]] and tells them to back off. The guy's girlfriend takes the camera, and the guy takes the rednecks' truck key and tosses it in a nearby sewer before driving off and later uploading the camera footage to Website/YouTube.
* In the early 1700s, Dick Turpin, famous highwayman, once stopped a gentleman on a coach road and threatened him with a pistol. That 'gentleman' turned out to be Thomas King, ''another'' famous highwayman. King was so ''impressed'' that he took Turpin as a partner and they robbed and murdered on the Essex roads together for two years.
* In 1999, Maurice Greene was the Olympic medal holder for fastest man in the world over 100m. At the airport, he and his teammates were mugged and the thief tried to run away from them with the bags he'd stolen. It goes without saying that they had no trouble catching the thief.
* A thug [[http://www.snopes.com/crime/dumdum/gunshop.asp attempted to rob]] a gun store - with a police car parked outside. ([[TooDumbToLive He didn't survive]].)
* In Lebanon in the 1980s, terrorist groups frequently kidnapped Western diplomats and held them hostage. Not so much with representatives of the USSR. As the (perhaps apocryphal) story goes, there was a reason for that. A terrorist group once kidnapped a Soviet diplomat, then cut off his finger, which was sent to the Soviet embassy in Beirut as proof that they had him. The Soviet response, after a short KGB "investigation," was to send a box to the terrorist leader containing his beloved brother's ''head''. The hostage was swiftly released, and Soviet diplomats were never bothered again.
** The same thing occurred with a group of terrorists who took a Lebanese airliner hostage. After the plane was retaken with no casualties, the Lebanese authorities sat the terrorists in the first row of the first class seats, put towels around their necks, and slit their throats. Never attack a group of people perfectly willing to go ''much'' farther than you.
* Also the burglar who broke into the house of an olympic fencer... while she was training.
* In 2009, a burglar broke into the house that four undergrad medical students were living in late at night. They had already had a Playstation and two laptops stolen earlier that week. When one of the students heard the noise downstairs, he investigated, armed with a ''katana''. When he encountered the burglar, the burglar lunged at him. The med student severed the burglars hand and then slashed him down the torso, causing him to die of blood loss at the scene.
* In 1971, legendary boxer Jack Dempsey was taking a cab home with his wife, and was accosted by a mugger. Apparently, the mugger never knew what hit him. [[BadassGrandpa Dempsey was 78 at the time.]]
* While Creator/BruceLee was making a film, one of the actors, assuming all of his moves were fake, insisted on fighting him. He quickly found out that Bruce Lee was a real life martial arts master, after being quite painfully beaten.
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