CALGARY FATHER STOPS ALLEGED CARJACKING, WITH HIS CHILDREN IN THE BACKSEAT.

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada:  A Calgary father says he's traumatized after a man attempted to steal his vehicle while his two children were still in the backseat.

Jonathan Bandialan was picking up dinner from a restaurant along Memorial Drive N.E. Wednesday when his dash-cam captured the terrifying scene.

Bandialan's 16-year-old son Jezthene and two-year-old daughter were waiting in the warm vehicle when the video shows a man appear in front of the van. He circles back a few times, looking inside, before he can be heard entering the vehicle's front seat.

A short exchange with Jezthene ensues, where the man orders the teen to leave the vehicle.

"I'm taking the van," he can be heard saying, “Get out."

"I wanted to fight," said Jezthene , Jonathan's son, "but he was very tall and we'll built so I got scared"

The teen was able to stall the man, saying he needed to help his sister out of the van and grab his belongings before leaving.

That's when he says he phoned his dad, who was just metres away in the restaurant.

I grabbed him right away and he tried to fight back," Bandialan said. "He's a big guy. Strong, too."

But luckily for the family, the father is trained in martial arts. Using the back of the front seat as leverage, he was able to pin the man from the van's middle seats.

Despite Bandialan's best efforts, he says the man was able to escape and flee the scene.