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chucktaylor Donating Member (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 01:41 AM
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Burglar flees in terror after homeowner returns from New Year party..dressed as Thor, God of Thunder
It's worth it just for the photo.


A muscle-bound building boss who came home from a New Year's Eve fancy dress party kitted out as Thor scared off a burglar by charging at him in his superhero outfit.
Six-foot-tall fitness fanatic Torvald Alexander, 38, was wearing a full God of Thunder outfit - complete with flying red cape and tinfoil silver-winged helmet - when he spotted the raider in his front room rifling through a desk.
Mr Alexander, who runs building firm Alexander & Summers in Edinburgh, Scotland, said the burglar threw himself out of a first-floor window of his £350,000 home in the Inverleith area of the city when he opened the door and confronted him


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1104050/Burglar-flees-terror-homeowner-returns-New-Year-party--dressed-Thor-God-Thunder.html

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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 01:56 AM
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1. !
:rofl:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 02:01 AM
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2. That get-up inspires something in me, but it is not terror!
:rofl:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 02:39 AM
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3. Has flvegan scared off any burglars?
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 10:48 AM
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6. He's got over a dozen Pit-Bulls so he doesn't need to
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 12:32 PM
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11. Owning a dozen pit bulls wouldn't stop me from dressing as a superhero.
Besides, pit bulls are nothing compared to the dogs Grandpa Simpson remembers, that shot bees from their mouths. Now THAT'S a security system.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 12:43 PM
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13. I believe that was Homer.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 03:11 AM
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4. I would also be terrified of a baked potato wearing a cape
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 10:45 AM
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5. They probably thought if he was crazy enough to dress up in a crappy superhero outfit...
he might be crazy enough to actual try to do something stupid and stop them. :P

Actually if this is in the UK, they probably didn't have GUNS. So they'd have reason to be afraid of a single person coming home.
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 11:21 AM
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7. Did he have the hammer?
The costume is nothing without Mjöllnir to strike fear into the hearts of evildoers.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 11:24 AM
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8. Reynolds, God of Tinfoil!
Seriously, the guy obviously has a Thor complex and a good bit of money, and THIS is the best he could come up with?

Wonder what his codpiece is made of.

On second thought, no I don't.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 12:59 PM
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14. Maybe he wanted a homemade costume. Give him a break.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 12:02 PM
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9. If silver, winged helmets are outlawed, only outlaws, well, you know the rest. nt
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 12:30 PM
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10. That's a fake Thor.
This is the real one.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 12:34 PM
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12. I'd be less frightened of the potential real thing.
A body-builder in tin foil...that's unnerving.

(Why can't the rich guy afford the above costume??)
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martymar64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 02:32 PM
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15. As Thor's girlfriend said . . .
Edited on Sat Jan-03-09 02:34 PM by martymar64
You're Thor?

I'm tho thor I can't ever pith!

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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 02:36 PM
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16. Wonder how many boxes of foil he used?
:shrug: :rofl:
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