NINJA WARRIOR CONTESTANT RECOVERS STOLEN CAR, CATCHES THIEF

Loki Kuroi, a former army recruit who competed on season two of Australian Ninja Warrior, was woken with a bang in the early hours of the morning and discovered her car, a Nissan Skyline, had been taken. Thieves allegedly first stole her Christmas presents and electronics, before trying to make a getaway in a pickup that was parked in her garage – but they couldn’t drive stick. After the vehicle slammed into the garage wall, the thieves fled in Ms. Kuroi’s Skyline. After reporting the theft to police, Kuroi turned to social media for help tracking her missing car. Tips sent her on a pursuit through the suburbs of North Brisbane, and in just a matter of hours Ms. Kuroi ran into them while driving around on the hunt. “We found them by chance hiding in a park smoking bongs after they had spent half the day joyriding, doing burnouts and hitting gutters,” she said. She went after them, and when police arrived five minutes later they found Kuroi with a 15-year-old teen in a headlock. “I crash tackled the driver and ripped him out of the car, got him in a headlock and dropped him. His mate that fled got caught soon after,” she said. The 18-year-old has appeared in court for the theft.
* The kid almost got away but he got hung up on the Flying Shelf Grab.
* Don’t mess with a Ninja Warrior’s Christmas.
* A chase, a tackle, and a headlock. It’s the Australian version of a citizen’s arrest.