An 84-year-old British man armed only with a pair of trousers beat back a mugger half his age who tried to rob him at a laundry in northern England. Ron Croker was drying his clothes last week when the masked thug accosted him at the unstaffed Coin-Op Launderette in Maltby in South Yorkshire.

“I’ve had fights and scuffled when I was younger, but when he was coming at me I thought I couldn’t back down,” the former construction foreman told The Times of London. “There was no one there to help me. It was either me or him and I won.”

This is the moment a pensioner fights off a mugger in a launderette with just a pair of jeans. Ron Croker, 84, was drying his clothes in a Laundrette in Maltby, South Yorkshire, when he was attacked by a masked mugger on Tuesday night. The masked man demanded money from the retired building site foreman, backing him into the corner.

SINGAPORE: A British retiree used a pair of jeans to successfully fight off a robbery attempt at a laundromat in South Yorkshire, England, giving a new meaning to the term of pantsing someone.

LONDON (AP) — An 84-year-old British ... masked thug accosted him at the unstaffed Coin-Op Launderette in Maltby in South Yorkshire. In the altercation caught on a surveillance camera, it ...

An 84-year-old British man armed only with a pair of trousers beat back a mugger half his age who tried to rob him at a laundry in northern England. Ron Croker was drying his clothes last week when the masked thug accosted him at the unstaffed Coin-Op Launderette in Maltby in South Yorkshire.

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Ron Croker, 84, was drying his jeans at the laundrette in Maltby, South Yorkshire, when he heard a robber burst in. The masked man reportedly said, “Give me your f***** money now" as the thug ...

An 84-year-old British man armed only with a pair of trousers beat back a mugger half his age who tried to rob him at a laundry in northern England.