One day Edson Franco Penteado was walking down the street in his home city of Rio de Janeiro, minding his own business when he was spotted by a thief. The slightly-built septuagenarian appeared to be an easy mark. However, little did the thief know that the man in the yellow t-shirt was in reality a fearsome 8th-degree black belt (coral belt) in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Master Penteado immediately closed the distance, to the point that the thief’s strikes would be ineffective, and then took the fight down to the pavement. What happened next is perhaps best summed up by Rickson Gracie: “I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can’t even swim.”
Penteado lectures the thief about the errors of his ways, and punctuates his statements with slaps and hammerfists. Meanwhile, an onlooker, doubtless fed up with crime in the city, adds his thoughts about what happened via an enthusiastically swung flip-flop.
The hapless thief could do nothing but cover up until police arrived took him into custody.