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Hero Boxer Foils Not One, but Two Robberies Before Breakfast

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“I ended up catching him at I think it was the entry at Castle Lane. I just saw him hiding behind a door,” he said. “He dropped the purse: My colleague lifted it and I kept going because I knew he’d have taken the money out of it.”




With one good deed already notched for the day he arrived at work, but as he showed his first group of tourists around, duty called yet again. Not far away from the first mugging, a man’s cell phone was stolen and he was once again tasked with righting one of the mean streets’ wrongs.

“I saw all my colleagues pointing and pointing – I thought to myself ‘No way, this could not be happening again’…we saw one of his mates run down Chichester Street. And I jogged slowly behind them – and then I saw the guy who took it. I just started sprinting up after him, grabbed him by the hood and I got the phone back.”

McComb was unfazed by the incidents. “They were both delighted: You could see it in their faces,” he said. “For the man to get his phone back and the girl to get the purse back… they’re important items – it saved them both a lot of hassle.”

In other words? “All in a day’s work, citizen.”

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