Ninjas to the rescue!

The men tripped the 27-year-old student, kicking him as he lay on the ground and grabbing his mobile phone and iPod.

What the assailants did not realise was that they were standing outside Ninja Senshi Ryu – western Sydney’s ninja warrior school.

They also failed to notice a ninja, Nathan Smith, standing in the shadows outside the dojo. Mr Smith immediately alerted his sensei, or teacher…

”We would have been just a silhouette,” one of the ninjas, Steve Ashley, said. ”It was probably the worst place in Sydney where they could have taken him.”