Colombia has been torn apart by violent crimes for decades now, but in the year 2000, Olympic athletes were being kidnapped over and over again and were being held for bail money. Three gunmen made the fatal mistake of trying to kidnap a former Olympic athlete named Bernardo Tobar.
Bernardo was an Olympic athlete for the sport of target shooting with a pistol. When Bernardo and his son of the same name, who is also an aspiring target shooter at the age of 22, were walking home after practicing for the Olympic games held in Sydney.
The then 22 year old Bernardo saw the immediate threat, and fired his .22 caliber pistol killing two of the three gunmen almost instantly. It isn't known what happened to third assailant. What's absolutely crazy about this story is that Bernardo wasn't the first person to shoot - the assailants actually shot BEFORE Bernardo did, they just missed.
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