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Feisty Woman, 86, Teaches Mugger A Lesson
WCBSTV.com ^ | 6/9/06 | Morry Alter

Posted on 06/11/2006 1:47:47 PM PDT by wagglebee

(CBS) NEW YORK She's 86, had five strokes, a broken hip and Wednesday, Elisabeth Rubin fought a mugger to a draw not far from Madison Square Garden.

Rubin was killing time Wednesday at midmorning waiting for the M20 to take her to doctor's appointment, so she looked at the watches in the Tourneau window at 34th and 7th Avenue.

"In the glass I saw him coming up behind me acting strange," she said.

The man was swinging what she described as a wood signpost. By her account, he hit her in the arm, then in the head as he grabbed the purse resting on her walker.

Rubin was determined to hang onto the bag. There wasn't much bread in it, only the corn bread she'd made for some friends, and a $5 bill.

"He pulled, I pulled." she said.

That's when Elisabeth, who'd been in tougher situations as a Jew eluding the Nazi's in Europe, made her move. With the purse strap tangled around her arm, she grabbed her large umbrella from the walker, snapped it open and "I beat him with it," she said with a smile.

Then, she added, "I wish I'd poked him in the eye" with the sharp end.

The mugger eventually wrested the purse from Elisabeth, looked inside, saw how much "bread" he netted, and threw it to the ground, kicking at her walker. She said the guy yelled in her face in Spanish, "you're a prostitute." To which Rubin said she replied, "you're mother's a prostitute!"

Then she said the bad guy took off running. She took off in the other direction as fast her walker would take her. On Thursday, she said, the police took her around the neighborhood to see if she could spot the squat, middle aged, mustachioed mugger.

He better hope the police catch him before she does.

"I would say to police, let me beat him up."

"You could do that? A young reporter asked.

"Oh yes."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aliens; mugger
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This is a great story!

On the link, there is a video of her showing how she fought back.

1 posted on 06/11/2006 1:47:48 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

Probably just an illegal beating up little old crippled ladies who Americans won't.


2 posted on 06/11/2006 1:50:39 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: wagglebee

I wish she'd been packing.


3 posted on 06/11/2006 1:52:28 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: All

Cat trees bear.

4 posted on 06/11/2006 1:57:47 PM PDT by dighton
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To: Larry Lucido

A marble rye?


5 posted on 06/11/2006 2:00:17 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside

LOL!

Should have carried a fruitcake. Makes for a much better weapon.


6 posted on 06/11/2006 2:01:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: wagglebee

7 posted on 06/11/2006 2:06:03 PM PDT by seastay
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To: wagglebee

I admire her spunk but she needs to get a gun.


8 posted on 06/11/2006 2:09:27 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: wagglebee

Odd that the print version left out the fact that passerbys didn't stop and come to her aid.


9 posted on 06/11/2006 2:12:56 PM PDT by csvset ("It was like the hand of G_d slapping down and smashing everything." ~ JDAM strikes Taliban)
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To: CindyDawg

In New York?


10 posted on 06/11/2006 2:14:28 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I grew up so long ago that being grown-up was more fun than being a kid!)
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To: CindyDawg
I admire her spunk but she needs to get a gun.

No 86 year old woman should HAVE to carry a gun.

What she NEEDS is to be able to go to the Doctor in anytown, USA without gangs of foreign national criminals being in her country illegally to attack her!

11 posted on 06/11/2006 2:15:06 PM PDT by WatchingInAmazement ("Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor," prof. Vernon Briggs, labor economist Cornell Un.)
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To: NicknamedBob

You didn't hear? The senate says laws don't have to be followed.


12 posted on 06/11/2006 2:17:44 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: WatchingInAmazement
I agree but in the real world you know we aren't there yet. If she's competent and trained then age should have nothing to do with if she is armed or not.
13 posted on 06/11/2006 2:19:32 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: wagglebee

join the nra.


14 posted on 06/11/2006 2:21:43 PM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (what have you done today to fight terrorism/leftism (same thing!))
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To: wagglebee

Great story. I hope they find the mugger so she can beat him up.


16 posted on 06/11/2006 2:25:25 PM PDT by Huntress (Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
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To: WatchingInAmazement; Spirited

Just where in the article does it say the attacker was a foriegn national or an illegal alien?


17 posted on 06/11/2006 2:26:45 PM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: wagglebee

The Video was awesome...


18 posted on 06/11/2006 2:27:23 PM PDT by chalkfarmer
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To: CindyDawg
"The senate says laws don't have to be followed."

That's their version of the separation of powers. The lawless need not follow the law.

< Post picture of Sylvester Stallone as Judge Dredd here. "I am the Law!" >

I think that means Leona Helmsly should be made an honorary senator, if there is such a thing.

I've never seen one myself.

19 posted on 06/11/2006 2:28:02 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I grew up so long ago that being grown-up was more fun than being a kid!)
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To: eastforker
"Just where in the article does it say the attacker was a foriegn national or an illegal alien?"

-- She said the guy yelled in her face in Spanish, "you're a prostitute." --

Of course, maybe he was a legal mugger.

20 posted on 06/11/2006 2:31:42 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I grew up so long ago that being grown-up was more fun than being a kid!)
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