Daily London
A naked man and his son have confronted three masked intruders who stormed the Adelaide home in the middle of the night.
Battered and bruised after a frightening break in erupted into violence, Chris Abrook is glad he put up a fight.
“I tell you what, when they kicked in that door right there, they kicked the wrong door in,” he said.
Chris and his wife Carla were home in Ingle Farm in Adelaide with their 17-year-old son Angus when they were jolted awake about 1am today.
“Drifting off to sleep, next minute we hear a crash and me and Christian both sat up in bed and said what was that,” Carla said.
When Chris and his son went to inspect, they found their Denning Avenue home’s front door kicked in and three intruders masked in balaclavas in their living room.
“We see a guy standing in the doorway, mask on, all bellied up and all that kind of stuff, so we’ve jumped out, come charging out here, butt naked, as naked as the day we were born,” he said.
The father and son confronted the gang, fending the trio off with their household furniture.
The were pair left with gashes across their body, slashed by weapons in the scuffle.
“We’re lucky we didn’t lose an eye or a finger, like I said, the young lad, he had a machete and a knife, the lad standing behind him had a knife, and the kid behind him had a knife as well,” Chris said.
Grabbing a chair, Chris says he herded the armed gang out of his home.
“Just pushed it against my stomach and ran straight at them hard … pushed them all the way out the door,” he said.
“If we had a pair of Bonds jocks on, we would’ve given chase and caught the little bastards.”
Police are still on the hunt for the trio.
Detectives seized a knife left at the scene that will be tested.
The ordeal left the Abrook family shaken.
“If you’re a parent out there and you’ve got a child and right now today he’s walking around, got a really sore back and a couple of cuts across his face, you might want to ask where he’s got them from,” Chris said.
