Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. Yup. Cabbie Alex McIlveen, 45, a big soccer fan with a penchant for hard punting, kicked Khalid so hard between the legs that he tore a tendon in his foot. After recovering and returning to work, Alex expected to just quietly slide back into his place in the long taxi line. But oh no, now he’s a celebrity — “The Famous Foot”! — and he has to transport fares between requests from both locals and tourists who want to be photographed with him, usually demonstrating his “privates punt.” Hey, they tip well, too! No Easy Mark With fists like those, who needs a gun? At least, that’s what we’re bettin’ 27-yearold ex-pickpocket Jesse Daniel Rae is thinking. He might also be reconsidering his mental image of “an easy mark.” That’s how he saw 72-year-old Bill Barnes when he spotted the seasoned citizen in a gas station convenience store near Grand Rapids, Mich. Barnes had just pulled a wad of cash out of an ATM, purchased a $2 lottery ticket, and shoved the remainder of the $300 into the left-front pocket of his shorts. That’s when Jesse slid up — and screwed up, big time. The instant Bill felt a hand stealthily slippin’ into that pocket, he seized Jesse’s wrist in an iron grip with his left hand, and commenced launching rapid-fire jackhammer punches with his right. At 72, he likes his punching targets to remain within optimum range, and not have to chase ’em. The result? “There was blood everywhere,” store manager Abby Ostrom told reporters. Another employee jumped in and slammed Jesse to the deck, probably saving him from further injury at the hands of Battlin’ Bill, who told police, “I guess I acted on instinct.” We think those were some refined instincts. Jesse messed with the wrong guy. Barnes was a regional runner-up in Golden Gloves boxing competition in both the novice and open-class divisions before he enlisted in the Marines in 1956. After service as a Leatherneck, he squeezed steel as an ironworker for over 20 years before retirement. And, Barnes admitted, he had a sorta special motivation not to let some bad guy grab his bucks. “I wouldn’t want my wife to give me hell for lettin’ that guy get my money,” he told officers, smiling. After being pummeled into pudding by a guy nearly three times his age, Jesse is lookin’ at 15 years in the joint for felony unarmed robbery. We’re betting that if Jesse gets out at age 42, an 87-year-old Barnes could still kick his butt in a standup fight. 9 CIRCLE NO. 215 ON INQUIRY CARD SHOT SHOW EXTRA SUPER ISSUE 2008 • www.shootingindustry.com 43