Roller girl and combat fighter Karen Dolley flights off intruder in her home
WHEN an intruder broke into a woman’s home he met more than he bargained for — a combat fighter and roller girl, who pummelled him into submission.
WHEN an intruder broke into a woman’s home he met more than her bargained for — a combat fighter and roller girl, who pummelled him into submission.
Karen Dolley, known as Foul Morguean in the Naptown Roller Girls team, was asleep in her home in Indianapolis, Indiana, when she woken by the sound of a male voice.
Dolley, 43, who is 168cm tall, jumped out of bed, turned on the lights and saw an intruder standing in her living room, the Indianapolis Star reported.
Dolley, who learned medieval combat fighting in international organisation The Society for Creative Anachronism, attacked the intruder, punching him about 10 times and pinning him in her bedroom.
She then reached for her gun in a nearby drawer and accidentally opened the wrong drawer. Dolley then grabbed a Japanese-style sword called ninjato, which she kept by her bed.
She kept the intruder, 30-year-old Jacob Wessel, cornered with the sword and dialled for the police, who duly arrested Wessel on arrival.
“I didn’t think I was getting good blows in but my knuckles are bruised today,” she told the Indy Star.
“Hitting someone like that, it isn’t like the movies. You’re expecting it to be louder and see people jerk around, but that’s not how it happens in real life.”
As Dolley and the intruder waited for police to arrive, he reached into his pocket. She applied more pressure to the sword and told him to stop moving.
“I’m really, really glad I didn’t have to do anything more,” Dolley said. “I know I could do it, but I don’t want to do that.”
She learned how to use a sword in unchoreographed fights using rattan swords and fought against men much taller and with 20 years’ experience.
Wessel who apologised to her as he was led away by police, was taken initially to hospital as he appeared to be on drugs. He was later charged with residential felony
“I definitely don’t need to work on my aggression, I guess,” said Dolley.
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