Breaking into someone’s house is a bad idea anyway, but it’s an especially bad idea when that person is a stacked-as-fuck NRL player who will smash you into a jelly if he catches you.
Nonetheless, three NSW teens – either ballsy as hell or dumb as shit, possibly both – attempted to run the Kurt GIdley gauntlet this weekend, with predictable results.
The SMH report that the Newcastle Knights player was at home minding his business on Saturday evening when he heard a disturbance at the door at around midnight.
Barefoot and only in a pair of shorts – that detail doesn’t really matter, but nor does it hurt when conjuring up a mental picture of the ensuing melee – he chased the three intruders into the rain.
“When I heard the noises and visibly saw them I wasn’t prepared to let them get away,” he said. “I didn’t want to lie in bed wondering who they were and what they were doing.”
Gidley made chase, and after “a few hundred metres” was approaching bushland when he brought his moves into play. “I caught up with one of them after he’d fallen over and got a hold of him,” he said.
The player then took the teen to a nearby house where he called police; the other two were later arrested. Reportedly, he has since received “a letter of personal apology” from the kid he caught.
“I think it takes a fair bit of courage to come around in person to apologise,” he said.
“The message from that is that I think he’s learnt his lesson. He came by with his father and he was pretty ashamed and embarrassed .. the consequences could have been a lot worse.”
And that’s why you don’t break into Kurt Gidley’s house.
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