Don't mess with Granny.
Posted on 10/11/2013 7:38:06 AM PDT by Rio
PENDLETON, OREGON - Harassed by someone at the park an elderly woman pulled a gun from her waistband and fired a shot in the air.
Pendleton police say she would have been well within her rights to shoot and kill the fellow park goer.
Neighbors have the right to be on edge. A young woman's murder went unsolved for a year until the random beating of a jogger on the riverwalk.
Anna Salvador has lived in Pendleton for most of her life. She said, "I actually took 2 knives from my kitchen with me just because I was nervous about someone attacking me."
She was upset to hear of another attack on a woman.
This time it was a 74 year old. Nancy Ashworth used pepper spray on an unleashed dog that looked like it might attack. The dog's owner didn't take to it too kindly.
Police say Justin Doss popped the elderly lady in the head with his skateboard. She responded with a gun from her waistband, firing it into the air and telling the young man to get away.
Pendleton Police chief Stuart Roberts said, "She felt the need to be armed, both with pepper spray and a fire arm. I think that it is a causational factor of what this community has endured over this last year."
He says he doesn't blame anyone for trying to protect themselves.
Roberts went on to explain Ashworth would have been within her rights to shoot the dog owner after she was hit with the skateboard.
He says there's an expectation of safety and security that comes with living in a small town. Like so many others, he wishes he had more manpower.
Police are hoping the answer is more surveillance cameras just like the ones posted here at the River Walk. They're teaming up with the city to identify other public areas around town where more could be posted.
Roberts says the cameras already in place have proven their worth. They were key in catching the man suspected of last summer's murder.
Anna supports the idea of adding even more.
"Makes me feel a lot safer, makes me feel more comfortable, taking my kids out after dark if I had to than now," she said.
Trading a bit of privacy for more safety on the heels of another attack on a woman in Pendleton.
Doss faces multiple charges including attempted assault and menacing.
Police advise everyone to be aware of their surroundings, even change up your daily routine to throw off any would-be stalkers.
Don't mess with Granny.
Oregon ping...
Anywhere else & Granny would’ve been charged with brandishing & unlawful discharge of a weapon.
In Arizona they would have chastised her for firing her gun into the air, where the round could have hit an innocent person after descending, instead of into a soft perpetrator who would have stopped, or at least slowed down the bullet.
What about BEFORE she got hit in the head with the skateboard?
Post 1 has the definitive picture of the “low information voter” supporter of Obama.
If she would’ve had real Barney Fife training, she would have just popped the dog.
I see a comb-over in his future.
http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad178/Monterrosa24/ArborBoard_zps72b4dfea.jpg
We skateboarders are usually not such a bad lot. Of course if skateboards were registered the owners licensed and ...
Anyone else catch the not so subtle message that surveillance cameras in all public places is such a GREAT idea?
“...Police advise everyone to be aware of their surroundings, even change up your daily routine to throw off any would-be stalkers...”
Notice too that now in the USA we get the same advice we got years ago if we were visiting Libya.
Not in Alabama.
They act like surveillance cameras prevent tragic crimes. They don’t. Guns can do that. Cameras just let people repeatedly watch the crime and say, “It’s a real shame.”
And get a darn haircut!!! And a job!!! Get off drugs!!!
Oh, they come in all shapes and sizes....they can even be 54 year old sister-in-laws who have gone back to collage, who have two sons in the military and who subscribe to Al Jazeera anyway, who watch Colbert and Jon Stewart for their news, who have fallen away from their faith and encourage their kids to do the same, who drink and smoke cigarettes and pot with their older kids who aren’t in the military, and who believe in global warming and are against fracking. I just had to get that off my chest! :(
You make a good point. We must all be more cognizant that things are different these days and potentially set to be even more challenging.
People must begin moving away from their normalcy biases.
Exactly...and are used (or rather I should say “misused”) for control of the people.
Having both lethal and less-lethal (pepper spray) with you is a really smart thing. Allowing the skateboarder to get close enough to hit her in the head with his skate board, was not go situational awareness. A skateboard is a heavy enough object that it could easily be a lethal weapon and Granny still be in good enough condition to pull her firearm probably indicates a lack that the skateboarder was not all that serious about his attack on her.
In my book, she should have either used any remaining pepper spray on the skateboarder prior to his hitting her or she should have shot him with no warning shot in the air. The situation either deserves lethal force or it doesn't. It is a tough call, but once one determines that pulling a firearm is required (i.e. that lethal force is justified) then it is time to “shoot to live.”
If Ron Wyden had a son————
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
