Back on December 8th of this year, 68-year-old WWE legend “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan woke up to find that his home had been broken into. Rather than cowering or hiding from the man, Duggan took matters into his own hands with a .44 Magnum revolver and the WWE treatment.
Duggan, describing the incident himself, said “I got the .44 Magnum. It’s a pretty intimidating gun and I got him down on the ground. It’s spread-eagle. He’s screaming, ‘Help me, help me! They’re trying to kill me!’”
That, apparently, was when Duggan realized that the home invader might not be attempting to rob or harm him, but was trying to get away from a group of men whose voices he heard outside. Dugan kept the home intruder restrained while his wife called the police.
Duggan, recounting that part of the night’s pulse-pounding events, said “Yeah, so I saw nobody else come in, and I pushed him down. He’s screaming other guys are coming to kill him. I can hear people out in the dirt road yelling, ‘We’re going to get you!’”
The police eventually arrived to deal with the situation, about which Duggan also spoke, saying “As quick as it happened, it wasn’t quick enough. People aren’t happy to see a cop until you need one, buddy and I’m standing there on the porch with a gun in my hand, two men out there yelling. I don’t know who they are. I don’t know if they have guns – what this guy brought to my house. So, I’m waiting for the police — when I first saw those blue lights, I was a happy man.”
Apparently, the man who broke into Duggan’s home had also broken into the home of the men who were chasing him. Describing that, Duggan told Tucker “He broke into their house or, I guess, it was her brother and uncle. I don’t know what the combination was, but two men had pistols. They pistol-whipped him, chased him down the road.”
The man had apparently tried getting help from other houses along the street but received none and so sought shelter by climbing over Duggan’s fence, losing his shoes in the process, and breaking into Duggan’s home…where he was greeted by a .44 Magnum and a very angry Jim Duggan.
Giving his thoughts on the police arriving and how to respond to a home invasion, Duggan then said “You got to do what you feel is properly right, but the first thing you got to do is call the cops. Call the police, man, because I tell you, Tucker, my heart was pounding through my shirt.”
“It was a terrifying ordeal in a way,” he continued. “And I’m waiting and waiting and waiting, which probably wasn’t that long. But all of a sudden you see those blue lights flicker, and it was like the cavalry was coming.”
Duggan, fortunately, was unharmed during the incident.
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