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Woman uses son's bat to kill sister's attacker
St Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 04/18/2004 | By Bill Bryan

Posted on 04/19/2004 4:19:40 PM PDT by mylife

Edited on 05/11/2004 5:37:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A woman grabbed her son's Louisville Slugger baseball bat and fatally beat a naked intruder who was attacking her 56-year-old sister, St. Louis homicide detectives said Sunday.

"He tackled me around the knees, and I was screaming," said Gwen Herndon, in recalling the encounter with the man in her living room. She said her attacker was wearing only socks and had forced his way into her home. "I asked him, 'Who are you and what do you want?' "The only thing he said was, 'I'm dead. I'm dead.'"


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: bang; justice; sockittohim
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To: mylife
Timmy Turner??? I guess his fairy godparents skipped out on him. LOL.
21 posted on 04/19/2004 4:52:00 PM PDT by Siouxz
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To: mylife
It was a Louisville Slugger
22 posted on 04/19/2004 5:04:49 PM PDT by delphifalcon
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To: Euro-American Scum
I'm surprised she wasn't arrested for murder.

But it wasn't with a gun... :)

23 posted on 04/19/2004 5:05:51 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: mylife
Good for her! A job well done! Standing ovation!
24 posted on 04/19/2004 5:09:09 PM PDT by TOUGH STOUGH (A vote for president Bush IS a vote for principle.)
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To: mylife
She's gonna be in real trouble here, eliminating a potential Democratic voter in an election year.
25 posted on 04/19/2004 5:12:42 PM PDT by kcar (Who would OBL vote for?)
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To: Euro-American Scum
I'm surprised she wasn't arrested for murder.

Or signed by the Yankees.

26 posted on 04/19/2004 5:26:20 PM PDT by geedee (We're Americans! Do not whine lest you be banished to France.)
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To: Lijahsbubbe


ROTFL
27 posted on 04/19/2004 5:28:10 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: curmudgeonII
How did our society fail this poor man?

They invented baseball!!!

28 posted on 04/19/2004 5:31:51 PM PDT by chainsaw (http://www.hanoijohnkerry.org.)
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To: mylife
Sounds like she scored a homer!
29 posted on 04/19/2004 5:35:26 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: mylife
The judge's ruling was "Ball!".
30 posted on 04/19/2004 6:00:04 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: Damagro
your post reminded me of a joke:


Debate the stop sign

A cop stops a man for running a stop sign and the subject gives the cop a lot of grief, claiming that he did stop.

After several minutes, the cop explained to the gentleman that he didn't stop, he just slowed down a little.

The gentleman said "Ehh, stop or slow down, what's the difference?".

The cop yanked the guy out of the car and started beating him with a nightstick, giving him a thorough wood shampoo for about a minute and then said, "Now, would you like me to stop or just slow down?"
31 posted on 04/19/2004 6:12:56 PM PDT by HighWheeler (Difference between a democRAT and a battery: At least a battery has a positive side.)
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To: Moonman62
In the UK she'd be in the slammer right now.

California too.

32 posted on 04/19/2004 6:14:17 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: Moonman62
In the UK she'd be in the slammer right now.

California too.

33 posted on 04/19/2004 6:14:18 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: mylife
It could also be referred to as a head board.
34 posted on 04/19/2004 6:25:04 PM PDT by VOYAGER (!)
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To: HighWheeler
Ahahahahaha!!!!
35 posted on 04/19/2004 6:32:05 PM PDT by shiva
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To: Tom Bombadil
John F'n just came out with a new proposal for Bat Control.
36 posted on 04/19/2004 6:39:26 PM PDT by Newtoidaho
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To: mylife
Never take a limp weanie to a Louiville Slugger fight.
37 posted on 04/19/2004 7:36:26 PM PDT by dc-zoo
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To: delphifalcon
Wonderful bats, those Louisville Sluggers. I do hope it wasn't damaged in dispatching the perp.

Aluminum bats ought to be banned. The tinny ping just doesn't have the same sound to a real baseball fan as the mellow thud produced by the Louisville Slugger.

38 posted on 04/19/2004 7:51:49 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: mylife
I vote for the Hall of Fame for this slugger.
39 posted on 04/19/2004 8:04:50 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Hospitals, jails and whores are the real universities of life. --C. Bukowski, 1978)
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To: kcar
Nah, you forget this is Missouri, where not only do the dead vote but they sometimes get elected!
40 posted on 04/19/2004 9:29:44 PM PDT by CARDINALRULES (Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.)
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