4 cases when ordinary people behaved like action heroes

It's high time for Hollywood screenwriters to adopt the stories of these ordinary people, because in extreme situations they behaved cooler than John MacLaine, John Rambo and John Matrix.

Even the writers of Hollywood action movies would be nice to push up and start coming up with names for movie characters a little more original than John. However, that's not what we're talking about right now.

Jay Leone vs the Robber

On a January night in 2012, robber and meth addict Samuel Cutrufelli broke into the home of 90-year-old Californian Jay Leone. Threatening with a gun, the criminal tied the hands of a World War II veteran with a belt and went to explore the rooms in search of valuables.

As it turned out, Cutrufelli was not very good at knitting knots, and it was not difficult for Leone to get rid of the unfortunate belt, after which the agile pensioner pretended to suffer from senile incontinence and under this pretext asked to go to the bathroom. The criminal took pity and allowed Leone to use the toilet, not knowing that this is where the veteran keeps his collection of weapons.

As soon as Leone appeared in the doorway of the bedroom with a shotgun, the burglar started shooting. The bullet that entered the jaw did not stop the pensioner: he returned fire and riddled Kutrufelli, after which he called the police. Both participants in the shooting were immediately hospitalized.

To the great surprise of the public, Cutrufelli, while under investigation, managed to file a lawsuit for causing harm to health, which Leone immediately won (the robber was sent to prison for 86 years).

Ingrid Loyo-Kennett vs. Lee Rigby's Killers

In May 2013, Woolwich, South London, was rocked by a daring attack on the drummer of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Lee Rigby. The killers, the Islamist radicals Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, used revolvers, axes and machetes to take revenge on the British military, represented by Rigby, for their actions in Afghanistan. Having dealt with the victim, the men began shouting slogans about their desire to arrange a bloody massacre in London and calling on passers-by to film everything that was happening on video.

Unfortunately for the terrorists, at some point a bus passed by them, in which 48-year-old nurse Ingrid Loyo-Kennett was traveling on her own business. The woman, who worked as a Scout camp counselor in her spare time, jumped off the bus on the move and, after assessing the situation, got into a verbal altercation with heavily armed Adebolajo and Adebowale.

Loyo-Kennett's experience with naughty boys came in handy: she began to scold and shame the murderers so zealously that they froze in confusion, not even daring to lay a finger on their opponent. Her threatening tirade lasted for several minutes, which was enough for the police to arrive at the scene of the crime.

Jonathan Azarihab vs Petah Tikva terrorist

In March 2016, a wave of targeted attacks by Palestinian terrorists on ordinary passers-by took place in Israel. One of the victims was an orthodox Jew, Jonathan Azarihab, who was raising funds for charity on the doorstep of one of the wine shops in Petah Tikva.

In fact, no one knows what exactly Jonathan was doing in the liquor store on a weekday morning, so you have to believe the Israeli journalists who wrote about the fundraiser.

18-year-old terrorist Abed el-Rahmanu Mahmoud Radad ran up to Yonatan and without any further scraping plunged a 25-centimeter knife into him. Azarihab, probably surprised by this turn of events, rushed to the store staff for help, but Radadu inflicted several more wounds on him, finally stabbing the aforementioned knife directly into the man's throat.

Deciding that the mission was complete, the attacker left the victim lying in a pool of blood and turned all his attention to the store owner. A minute's pause gave Jonathan a chance to recover, he took an upright position, pulled the knife out of his throat and killed the terrorist with one well-aimed blow.

Despite the huge number of stab wounds, Jonathan Azarihab quickly went on the mend and became, of course, a folk hero.

Allen Cram and the Texas Sniper

On August 1, 1966, bank clerk and retired Corporal Charles Whitman, who suffered from a personality disorder, killed his family and went to the University of Texas grounds to shoot passers-by with a brand-new Remington 700 rifle. Climbing to the top of the 28-story tower, which was part of the university's architectural complex, he began firing at anyone who caught his eye.

Allen Crum, 40, who worked as a manager at a local bookstore, was not surprised to see a bloodied youth surrounded by a crowd outside: fights between students were commonplace at all times. After leaving the store, Krum went to the young man, but he heard the sounds of gunshots and realized that he had a gunshot wound.

Looking around carefully, Krum found Whitman on the observation deck of the tower, after which he showed miracles of heroism. After helping the wounded man, the man carried out measures to evacuate the street, in a matter of minutes hiding all passers-by from the sniper's line of sight.

When there was no one left on the street, Krum waited for the direction of the shooting to change, then ran to the tower, at the foot of which he came across police officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy. Together with them, Krum began to climb to the observation deck under a hail of bullets: not only did the sniper shoot at people, but also ordinary citizens who had pistols with them that day were shooting at him (we remind you that this happened in Texas, where a permit to carry a weapon is issued together with a birth certificate).

The brave manager, in the best traditions of the buddy movie police, covered up the law enforcement officers who managed to eliminate Whitman.