Knowing Gingers' rep from years ago I was kind of believing this until the 'beating with the stolen limb" part.
I started thinking this was from The Onion.

Cool bit of writing though.

BOGUS. You can't rip someone's arm off of their body. You'd need a chainsaw to do that.

I really did want it to be true, but alas...

https://www.snopes.com/ginger-baker-beats-burglars-senseless-sodomizes-one-with-walking-stick/

BOGUS. You can't rip someone's arm off of their body. You'd need a chainsaw to do that.

Ginger could do it

Damn! I wanted this to be true. The extreme method Ginger used to "disarm" the burglar did seem a bit over tge top.. My b.s. alert flashed early when it seemed too coincidental that both burglars' names could be linked to Fawlty Towers.