LOS ANGELES - How many times have you heard "a mother will always fight off anybody to keep her children safe?" You could say the same about this dad after he was caught on camera fighting off a burglar in his own backyard in Mid-City.Security video shows the scary confrontation as it all went down last Thursday.It happened during the burglar's second visit to Danny Lobell's backyard as he returned to the scene of the crime hours later to wipe off his fingerprints. "I look up, and there's the guy.
All of a sudden, something… an animal instinct inside of me that's in my DNA as a father, kicked in," said homeowner and father Danny Lobell. "I said, ‘my back door is open and my little girls are in there.
If one of us is going back in there, it’s not going to be that guy.'"Lobell uses the bus in his backyard as a studio for his comedy podcast.
That's when the burglar first strikes, stealing cameras and other electronic gear worth around $25,000. But just two hours later, the burglar is back to wipe clean his fingerprints."So I told him, 'I'm going to kill you.' And in that moment, who knows?