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Hockey Star Tackles Crime

Tip to pickpockets: if you’re going to steal someone’s wallet in Turin, don’t pick an Olympic athlete, and an ice hockey player at that. Canadian news website Canoe.ca reports that a thief got a nasty shock when he tried to steal the wallet of Gina Kingsbury, a forward on the Canadian women’s ice hockey team. The athlete chased after the pickpocket when she realised what had happened, sprinting 40 metres - while loaded with shopping bags - and tackled the thief to the ground to get her money back. Lucky for him that she didn’t have her stick with her!

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .