‘No-one’s taking my ute’: Footage of wild fight in Caboolture

They weren’t going to let their ute go without a fight – responding in spectacular fashion after they caught the robber red-handed.

For most people unlucky enough to be the victim of a crime, the first reaction is to call the police.

But not this Queensland couple, who responded in spectacular fashion after catching an alleged thief red-handed as he tried to take their ute and tools from their Caboolture home.

Their response, which included climbing into the moving vehicle to place the man in a headlock and wielding a block of wood, was all caught on CCTV cameras.

Catching the would-be thief red handed Mr Dennehy managed to climb inside the moving ute. Picture: Channel 7.

Terry Dennehy and his partner Dee Arias were alerted to the alleged intruder just before 6am on Friday when they heard their ute’s engine suddenly start.

“I thought, no way, no-one is taking my ute, that’s mine,” Mr Dennehy told Channel 7.

A shirtless Mr Dennehy ran to his garage just in time to see his ute being driven away, running after the moving vehicle and managing to get inside the ute’s passenger door.

“They’re ain’t much going to stop it, so I thought the only way I can do is jump in with him. If he’s going, I’m going with him,” he said.

As Mr Dennehy wrestled the man out of the ute Ms Arias ran over, block of wood in hand. Picture: Channel 7.

Once inside the ute Mr Dennehy managed to put the man into a headlock and grabbed the steering wheel, bringing the vehicle to a standstill.

“He said to me, ‘oh f**k you’ve got me, you’ve got me’,” Mr Dennehy recalled. “I’ve got him all right … I’m going to give this guy what for.”

But the incident didn’t stop there, with Ms Arias running over to the ute with a block of wood, striking the would-be thief several times.

Ms Arias demonstrating how she wielded the wood. Picture: Channel 7.

Mr Dennehy had a word of warning in case the man comes back. Picture: Channel 7.

“He kept screaming, ‘Ouch, ouch stop it’,” she told Seven. “I keep bashing him and running, I was aiming for his head.”

The man, who CCTV footage also revealed had loaded up tools from Mr Dennehy’s shed inside the ute, eventually fled the property on foot.

But Mr Dennehy has issued a stern warning in case he plans on returning.

“Give it a go if you want to, yeah but next time it will be a lot worse,” he said.

“I’d love to see him back here.”