Sure enough, a would-be robber had smashed her glass door with a rock and cut out the screen. She yelled at him and warned him that she had a gun. But when she called for help, she was stunned to hear their advice.
“When I called 911, she kept saying, ‘put the gun down, put the gun down.’ And I said, ‘I’ll put the gun down when I see the police,’” Logan recalled.
Damn straight! As we say, “When seconds count, the police are minutes away.” Nothing will protect a woman under threat as well as cold steel and a trigger.
It was a request that this tough grandma refused to fulfill while there were still likely one or more criminals in her house.
Her shouts seemed to have worked – as the man or men were scared away, with police investigating.
And N.J. says there’s no way she’ll be getting rid of her gun, especially after the scary incident. She told MTVT-TV that she is a strong believer in having “guns inside your house” because no one “has the right to break into your private domain.”
“I’ll definitely have the gun up there,” she added, “that is for sure.”
First, I don’t dial 911 when I have important business at hand.
Second, I can only hope that I’d hang up before telling the 911 operator my response to such stupidity.
resting her new hip after recent surgery upstairs in her home,
Old gal had a surgical suite in her home?
Don’t they teach these folks how to write nowadays?
Thank God, and her gun that she’s OK no thanks to that dispatcher.
There should be some sort of a test to determine if someone’s an idiot before they are hired as dispatchers.
Now just a bleepin second!
If she had just had a hip joint replacment, she wasn't doing any running nowhere, nohow.
Walking maybe, with a cane.
Gimme a break.
Too bad we didn’t read about the ultimate happy ending:
Citizen: “I shot him twice, I think he’s dead.”
911: “Are you sure? We need to be sure.”
*BANG*
Citizen: “Ok, now I’m sure.”
“Sorry Granny, we’d rather have you dead than deal with another Trayvon. Nothing personal.”
She’s 80?
I’d hit that...
She looks good for 80, and her eyes have that in the moment awareness of the very intelligent. She won’t be intimidated by some 911 operator.
Boy, Diane Keaton has really let herself go.
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Oh, dear Lord. The spitting image of Hilary.
There’s no way the woman in that picture is 80.
Stop, Drop, and Cower
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Buy why do they want you to cower and snivel?
So you can know your place in:
She’s in pretty good shape for 80 with a fresh hip replacement!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44SftSVt1x4
Good job stopping the crime in progress, but call 911 AFTER dealing with the situation. Cops arrive on the scene to investigate, not protect.
Pistol packin mama needs another gun for conveniece-reachability