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'I'm not just the typical granny:' 80-year old shoots, kills intruder
KOMO News ^ | 5/5/2016 | Lindsay Cohen

Posted on 05/06/2016 5:44:17 AM PDT by grimalkin

SULTAN, Wash. -- Four shots fired. Three hit the intruder.

It was one surreal moment, says Barb Moles.

"I was just intent upon stopping him. I didn't have any other thought in my head," says Moles. "I just knew I had to stop him."

Moles, 80, was home with her husband, John, and their adult son Thursday night when she says she heard a commotion. She walked into the kitchen and found her husband bleeding on the floor.

John, a retired Boeing worker, had been attacked with a knife and beaten with a crowbar, authorities said. He said three words to his wife: "I've been stabbed."

Barb, a grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of three, walked down the hall and into the master bedroom. She found her .38 caliber pistol -- a Christmas gift from John a few years prior.

She waited behind the door for the intruder to come in. He never did.

She walked into the hallway, she says, where she saw the stranger.

He said one word: "gun."

She shot him four times, hitting her mark three on of them.

(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; firearm; homedefense; selfdefense
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I'm glad her husband's going to be OK and no one else got hurt.
1 posted on 05/06/2016 5:44:17 AM PDT by grimalkin
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To: grimalkin

Well, other than the perp.


2 posted on 05/06/2016 5:44:32 AM PDT by grimalkin (Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill)
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Well, other than the perp.

Was the perp one of 0bama's 'sons'?

3 posted on 05/06/2016 5:46:58 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (UNAWARE Millennials voting for the first time were only 2 when the Clinton Crime Family left office.)
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To: grimalkin

He didn’t hurt for very long.


4 posted on 05/06/2016 5:51:13 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: grimalkin

A lot of criminal’s last words are gun


5 posted on 05/06/2016 5:53:44 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: The Sons of Liberty

White punk looking for pills. His picture in included in the video.


6 posted on 05/06/2016 5:55:30 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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White punk looking for pills.

Good riddance. Old people usually have a LOT of pills, but few, if any, are the "Happy" pills these punks are looking for.

7 posted on 05/06/2016 5:58:15 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (UNAWARE Millennials voting for the first time were only 2 when the Clinton Crime Family left office.)
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A lot of criminal’s last words are gun

I had actually had a bad day going till I read that line and now cannot stop chortling. Yeah, that must stink to have as your last words on a headstone. GUN.....
8 posted on 05/06/2016 5:58:17 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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#ThugLivesDon'tMatter

The thug stabbed a very old man and beat him with a crowbar. Dead is a huge improvement over alive for a thug like that.

This is reported to be the dead thug, from his Facebook.

9 posted on 05/06/2016 6:00:00 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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Kudos to Grams but she needs a little more range time all four would have been perfect.


10 posted on 05/06/2016 6:06:58 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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They may not prosecute her because the criminal was white. If he had been a ‘person of color’, she would probably be looking at spending the rest of her life in prison up in that liberal hell hole.


11 posted on 05/06/2016 6:12:58 AM PDT by PAR35
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but she needs a little more range time all four would have been perfect.

Eighty years old, playing cat-and-mouse with a dangerous perp, scared to death and still hitting 3 out of four?

Asking for a perfect shoot is ridiculous. She was probably still pulling the trigger as he was hitting the floor.

12 posted on 05/06/2016 6:13:02 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a person as created by the Law of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

And I thought a rainy Friday morning was gonna start out bad!!
Things are looking brighter already...


13 posted on 05/06/2016 6:14:17 AM PDT by bantam
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To: grimalkin

We’re being reminded that “a well-armed society is a polite society” one bullet-holed perp at a time...whether shot by an eleven-year old in Alabama, or an 80-year old in Washington state.


14 posted on 05/06/2016 6:24:20 AM PDT by Clioman
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I hope criminals learn not to confront we seniors...we are not without “power” to respond!


15 posted on 05/06/2016 6:46:23 AM PDT by 3D-JOY (Visit the FREEPATHON today!)
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A lot of criminal’s last words are gun

A lot of criminals must be religious, because when they see the gun they say "Holy..."

16 posted on 05/06/2016 6:48:01 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: grimalkin

Good shootin’ granny.


17 posted on 05/06/2016 6:50:00 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: PAR35

Sultan is a low rent suburb of Monroe.


18 posted on 05/06/2016 6:50:38 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: Rappini

I really don’t think she needs more range time.

Her hit rate, 3 out of 4, is a heck of a lot better than most LEOs achieve. That was with a wheel gun too. Wonder what her barrel length was?

My bottom line _ GREAT SHOOTING! You are alive, your family is alive, and the burglar is dead. have to wonder how many future lives she saved?


19 posted on 05/06/2016 6:51:07 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: Donglalinger

lol..... priceless...

“guuunnn”


20 posted on 05/06/2016 7:09:35 AM PDT by sdpatriot ("Thank you very much, sdpatriot!! Smooch!" - from JR - send him a buck!!!!)
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