You go Granny!

Byrdie714 · 03-14-2008, 05:37 PM

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SANTA FE, N.M. - Great-grandmother 1, would-be robber 0. Bernie Garcia at first thought the young man who approached her asking for money while she gassed up her car seemed like a sweet guy.

But when the 83-year-old woman told him Wednesday that she'd just spent all her spare change on gas and had none to give him, he grabbed her purse.

"But I had it wrapped around my wrist twice," Garcia said, and he was unable to pull it away.

She fought back, spraying his shirt with a bit of gasoline from the nozzle she still had in her hand. Both of them kept hold of the purse, and he pulled her to the ground and dragged her a short distance until another man confronted him.

The second man demanded, "Turn her loose, you something something," Garcia said.

The man jumped into a nearby vehicle and fled.

A witness got the license plate number, and three minutes later, police spotted it on U.S. 84-285 and stopped the car — which was reported stolen from Espanola, said Santa Fe Deputy Police Chief Aric Wheeler.

Garcia and an eyewitness identified one of the men inside as the attacker. He and two other men in the car were charged with robbery and conspiracy.

"They got caught and I'm so glad," Garcia said.

She said she felt fine after the attack, and police say she declined medical attention at the scene. But when she got home, she said, she felt faint and went to bed and woke up Thursday very sore. Her son, a former firefighter, checked her out and found no broken bones.

"My son said, 'Why didn't you just give (the purse) up?'" Garcia said. "'Hell no,' I told him. That was my purse. I was fighting for what was mine."

Great-grandma, 83, foils purse snatcher - Yahoo! News

You go Granny!

Ozzie · 03-14-2008, 05:47 PM

Hear! Hear!

LakeTahoe · 03-14-2008, 06:02 PM

Whoo whoo!

deafbajagal · 03-15-2008, 03:16 AM

Don't mess with Granny!

M&Mmm · 03-15-2008, 08:53 AM

WoW she's strong!

Wokamuka · 03-15-2008, 03:55 PM

http://www.alldeaf.com/strange-stupi...ef-petrol.html

Babyblue · 03-16-2008, 10:07 AM

dun dun duuunnn! Super Granny!!!

I am just glad the other men showed up! If no one was there to help she would have been really harmed. Glad everything worked out great. It was dumb on her part to not give up her purse. I can replace my purse and Id etc. but can not replace life itself.

Dixie · 03-17-2008, 06:42 PM

You go granny!

:rock:

MyBlueEyes · 03-18-2008, 06:23 PM

Congrats to granny and am glad that you are o.k !

***Jolie_77*** · 03-18-2008, 06:37 PM

Wow, That is one determined granny! She's lucky she didn't get herself much harmed or worse. She fought for what's rightfully hers and it should be that way.

You go Granny!

Cheri · 03-18-2008, 07:50 PM

Lol, I gonna love Granny, You gonna fight for what's yours, that's what I'll do too.

@ Granny Garcia

sara1981 · 03-19-2008, 12:04 AM

oh my!

why not stranger need stop steals any women's purse if police around in city they dont steals its LAW!

horselover61 · 03-19-2008, 01:38 PM

Go go granny go! Go go granny go! Go go granny go!

*channting* all day long

CCfan · 03-21-2008, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by M&Mmm

WoW she's strong!

I glad for her! I impressed about she could be protected, and been strong from bad guys! I am glad for she had no broken bones, whew!
Go, granny!

Wokamuka · 03-22-2008, 09:17 PM

She had him in a headlock!

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March 21, 2008, 11:24PM
No escaping this granny for KFC robbery suspect | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Thieves, robbers: Stay away from Camas, Wash. It's Mary Chamberlain's town. The 67-year-old had picked up a friend at a hospital Wednesday and was driving by the local KFC when an employee came running out, chasing a man and yelling "He robbed us!"

Many people might have called 911 and left it at that. Not Chamberlain. The employee gave up the chase, but Chamberlain started driving after the man. "I thought I'd slow him down, anyway," she said.

The suspect kept shouting "I didn't do anything!" prompting two men to come out of the local Kingdom Hall and ask what was up. They called police. Chamberlain stayed in pursuit.

"I followed him on down the road. He ducked into the yards. I couldn't find him. I figured he was going yard-to-yard-to-yard jumping fences."

She eventually spotted him trying to climb a fence.

"I jumped out of the car," she said with a casual air, like the grandmother of 12 she is. She said she didn't stop to think whether the suspect was armed.

"I pulled him off the fence. He didn't swing at me. I just told him, 'Just give it up. You haven't got a chance.' I had my arm around his neck, and I was going to try and bring his arm up behind him. It looks easy on TV. Believe me — it's not."

The suspect was about the same height as Chamberlain, 5-foot-6, with an average build. The pair ended up locked together in a slow dance moving toward the gate of the fence.

"I wasn't going to let go," she said. Both could hear sirens by now. "I told him, 'Just give it up,' then the police showed up and hollered at him to get down."

Police arrested Joshua G. Crowley, 22, of Washougal, Wash. He is accused of robbing the KFC at knifepoint, said Camas Police spokesman Mitch Lackey.

Lackey doesn't recommend acts of vigilantism such as Chamberlain's.

Chamberlain is retired from a job at United Parcel Service and, as a regular customer of the restaurant that was robbed, says she just felt the need to defend it.

"You're messing with one of my favorite places," she said.

Her four kids think she's crazy, Chamberlain said. But she wants them to tell this robbery story to the grandkids.

"They'll know they'll always be safe with Grandma."

***VamPyroX*** · 03-22-2008, 11:12 PM

Hahaha... the robber got

Pepsi · 03-23-2008, 10:34 PM

Way to go granny.

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