Posted on 08/18/2008 4:19:48 PM PDT by Daffynition
LAKE LYNN, Pa. -- An 85-year-old great-grandmother from Lake Lynn, Fayette County kept an alleged burglar at bay using a .22-caliber pistol.
According to police, a 17-year-old suspect was attempting to burglarize Leda Smith overnight.
That's when Smith grabbed her gun and told the teen that she would shoot him if he moved, police said.
"I had the gun on him before he turned around and said, 'you've had it,' " Smith told Channel 11-News.
According to police, Smith ordered the boy to dial 911 and then gave him some advice.
"Dial 911 and don't attempt to throw the phone at me, or do anything bad or i'll just shoot you," Smith said.
When police arrived, they took the teen into custody.
Charges have been filed against the boy and an alleged accomplice.
Go Granny, Go!
What a difference between this story and the other one just posted.
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She would have been just another victim in a leftist world.
A 22 cal auto with a 10 round clip (up close) would make the guy look like a colander in about 5 seconds. They tend to bounce around inside a body too.
.22’s are under-rated.....
That said, the perps were surely amateurs and didn’t have time to assess granny’s firepower, while loading their baggy pants.
I have a .22 in my night stand drawer. A .22 Magnum.
(No, that’s not ALL I have in the house...;-)...)
Well, she was 85. A .44 magnum would've probably launched her across the room;-)
And the difference is a gun!
Isn’t Lake Lynn just up the road from Springhill?
(Ok, I’ll admit I googled it.)
You must be as old as I am. LOL I did love Jan & Dean.
It has a reputation of being the gun of choice for hit men. Penetrates the skull and then acts like that little ball inside an aerosol paint can.
Yeah, I see those stories and always wonder if I have done enough to make sure that my Mother is safe from the neighborhood slime.
["You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."]
What do you mean? A 22 can kill ‘em just well as a bigger gun, esp if thats all you have or you cant handle the bigger gun.
//”I had the gun on him before he turned around and said, ‘you’ve had it,’ //
LMAO!
I'm picturing her with a filterless cigarette in her mouth as she said that. Bogart style.
“Dial 911 and don’t attempt to throw the phone at me, or do anything bad or i’ll just shoot you,” Smith said.”
What Granny Smith REALLY said was:
“Dial 911, or your ass is mine, B#TCH!”
If yall haven’t already...watch the video...she one cool lady and I don’t think the reporter and the cop could have been any more prouder of her:’)
Heads up!
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