Women use rum to disarm intruder

AP wire | 10/30/03 | AP

[hemogoblin]

TAMPA — Two women in the their 60s say they used kindness, food and rum to subdue a shotgun-wielding man who broke into their house.

Police eventually came and arrested a 52-year-old man after he became groggy from the liquor and passed out.

Cathy Ord and Rose Bucher said they tried to make friends with the man after he burst in through a kitchen window toting a sawed-off shotgun Tuesday night. They made him a ham sandwich, gave him a bottle of rum and suggested he take a shower.

“We just treated him with kindness,” said Bucher, 63. The intruder didn’t say what he wanted, and the women said they suspected he had committed a crime somewhere and needed a safe place to stay.

“It was so surreal,” said Ord, 60. She offered him cash and the keys to her Cadillac, but he didn’t leave, she said.

He ordered the women to turn off the lights and to whisper when talking. He sat for a long time chatting with the shotgun in his hands.

“He said he wouldn’t harm us unless we did something smart,” Bucher said. The women asked, in a whisper, whether he was hungry. He said yes. They made him a sandwich and a gave him a bottle of rum, and encouraged him to shower and shave so he could “sort of be disguised in his getaway,” Ord said.

He called and talked to his girlfriend, the women said, and then, shortly after 3 a.m., he asked whether they would call him a cab.

By the time the cab arrived, he was unconscious. The cab driver called 911, and within minutes more than a dozen sheriff’s deputies stormed the house.

Alfred Joseph Sweet was in jail Thursday without bail, charged with armed home invasion and false imprisonment. Attorney information was unavailable.

[hemogoblin]

I don't see where this has been posted yet.

[Paleo Conservative]

I don't see where this has been posted yet.

Fla. Women Disarm Intruder With Sandwich

[Robert A Cook PE]

These are cryin' for a "just da*m" ping list.

[hemogoblin]

yeah, well, the head was inaccurate. it was rum that did it and rum I searched for.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Aw, ain't that sweet of the widdle old ladies.

[Paleo Conservative]

"yeah, well, the head was inaccurate. it was rum that did it and rum I searched for."

Fla. Women Disarm Intruder With Sandwich

The rum was a little helpful too.

That's what one of the posters on the original thread said.

[My2Cents]

They should have used eldeberry wine, like the two old sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace."

[japaneseghost]

Suthr'n hospitality can be quite disarming.

[Intolerant in NJ]

A bit like the story out of Philly wherein teenage girls grew tired of being flashed by some creep on the way to school - when he showed up today two of them started chasing him, at which point he took off running only to be stopped and detained by a motorist who saw what was going on - file under "be careful what you wish for"......

[yankeedame]

Women use rum to disarm intruder

"It's elderberry wine...."

[tal hajus]

When rum is outlawed, only outlaws will have rum.

Have rum will travel?

How about Rumsmoke?

[raybbr]

Anyone want to take bets that he gets a lawyer and sues them for getting him drunk?

[battlegearboat]

"Here's mud in your eye."

[stand watie]

so true!

SBs rock.

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