Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\nHe told the M.E.N he was standing in the queue at a Londis shop in Ardwick on Sunday (July 12) when he noticed a man ‘pulling stuff off the shelves’.<\/p>\n
“He was really aggressive and confrontational, going ‘I’ll take what I want’,” Nick said. “The lad behind the till went to try and stop him. He was putting up a fight and refused to leave.<\/p>\n
“The cashier was trying to defend himself and all the customers were standing there watching. Some were getting quite upset.<\/p>\n
“I remained calm and went over to him and used a move to put him on the floor and I just said you need to leave and he did.”<\/p>\n
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The moment Nick tackled the man (Image: Submitted )<\/p>\n
Nick can be seen in a CCTV clip sporting sunglasses and striding over to the man before swinging him to the floor and pinning him down. The man then left without incident.<\/p>\n
“I used a self-defence technique called a leg sweep, where he was not going to get injured or come to any harm,” Nick said. “I’ve done it that many times at the gym. I patted him down as I thought he might be carrying a knife.”<\/p>\n
Staff told Nick the man was well-known in the area and that they were ‘grateful’ for his assistance. “They told me I could come by for a reward,” he said. “I just feared for the poor guy behind the till.<\/p>\n
“I just work in an office but I do some fighting and sparring at the gym just for fitness,” he said. “In these situations you have to stay calm.<\/p>\n
“I like to keep myself to myself. I don’t get involved in things. But that lad was not going to leave.<\/p>\n
“No one was being served and women in the queue were quite uncomfortable. He was really aggressive and it’s not acceptable.<\/p>\n
“As a member of the public there are times where you should step in and this was one of them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘There are times where you should step in – this is one of them’ The moment Nick tackled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1093832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[10840,748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":["post-1093831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-ardwick","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116932483619937751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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