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Woman, 92, Goes Ballistic After Being Denied Kiss (Fired four shots at home of 53-year-old crush)
TSG ^
| 3/22/2011
| TSG
Posted on 03/22/2011 7:51:39 AM PDT by TSgt
MARCH 22--After being denied a kiss yesterday by a neighbor 39 years her junior, a 92-year-old Florida woman allegedly returned to her home, retrieved a .380 semi-automatic handgun, and fired several shots into the man’s residence.
Aged pistolero Helen Staudinger was arrested last night and charged with aggravated assault and firing into an occupied dwelling, according to a Marion County Sheriff’s Office report. Staudinger is pictured in the mug shot at right.
Investigators allege that Staudinger went next door to speak with Dwight Bettner, but her 53-year-old neighbor asked her to leave. In an interview with a sheriff’s deputy, Staudinger said she told Bettner that she would not leave unless he gave her a kiss.
Bettner declined, which triggered an argument between the Fort McCoy residents.
That is when an incensed Staudinger returned to her home, got her gun, and allegedly fired into Bettner’s residence. Bettner, who was hit by flying debris, was not seriously injured by the gunfire.
Staudinger told a cop that she had planned to “shoot his car that he loved so much.” Investigators believe that she instead “fired diagonally through the victim’s carport hitting the house with all four rounds fired.”
Bettner told police that he has had “on-going issues with Ms. Staudinger and feels that she is enamored with him.” He added that he had told his neighbor that he had a girlfriend, “at which time Ms. Staudinger allegedly threatened to shoot him.”
A sheriff’s deputy reported that she recovered Staudinger’s weapon--with a bullet in the chamber--from an end table in the nanogenarian’s living room.
Staudinger, facing a pair of felonies, is being held in the county lockup in lieu of $15,000 bond.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: crime; florida; floriduh; fortmccoy; lazwouldhitit; napl
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Bettner told police that he has had “on-going issues with Ms. Staudinger and feels that she is enamored with him.” He added that he had told his neighbor that he had a girlfriend, “at which time Ms. Staudinger allegedly threatened to shoot him.”
Talk about fatal attraction...
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:51:40 AM PDT
by
TSgt
To: TSgt
All he wanted her to do was put her teeth in first...
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:54:04 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(I am declaring 2011 the year of ME.)
To: TSgt
This is my kind of woman—LOL!
She needs a kiss dammit, and she won’t be denied!
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:54:17 AM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: TSgt
She make Helen Thomas look good..................
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:55:09 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:55:22 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: TSgt
Be nice to old ladies...if you know what is good for you.
Pucker up!
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:55:22 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
To: basil
To: TSgt
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:57:11 AM PDT
by
pogo101
To: Lazamataz
Hit it before it hits you!
To: gov_bean_ counter
With those eyebrows, she doesn’t look a day over 85.
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:58:52 AM PDT
by
WestwardHo
(Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
To: TSgt
Don’t tell me. Lifelong Democrat?
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:00:13 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(I want gigaton warheads now!!)
To: NautiNurse; Lazamataz
"Be nice to old ladies...if you know what is good for you."
Well, I guess it's a good thing that I like older women, isn't it?
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:01:37 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there.)
To: TSgt
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:02:53 AM PDT
by
ladyvet
( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
To: NautiNurse
A sweet little old lady, bedridden in a nursing home, wrote about being so old on the outside, long past her glory days, but having a little crush on her much younger doctor, but she wasn’t packing heat.
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:03:34 AM PDT
by
WestwardHo
(Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
To: TSgt
Towards the end my grandmother began propositioning the bedpan man.
Maybe this sweet old gramma had better see a doctor.
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:03:39 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: TSgt
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:04:37 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(Laz would hit it!)
To: TSgt
I’d hit that...
with a fly swatter!
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:05:10 AM PDT
by
Sparticus
(Tar and feathers for the first dumbass Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
To: TSgt
Sadie Hawkins..reincarnated. Watch out boys...
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:06:40 AM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
To: skeeter
Maybe this sweet old gramma had better see a doctor. Dr Love? Dr Feelgood?
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posted on
03/22/2011 8:06:46 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 789 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM, where is the 'president'?)
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