An elderly lady completed her shopping, and upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags, drew her handgun and proceeded to scream at the top of her voice, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!"
The four men didn't wait for a second invitation. They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried but it wouldn't go in. Then it dawned on her why.
A few minutes later she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into her car and then drove to the police station. The sergeant to whom she told the story nearly tore himself in two with laughter. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a carjacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun.
No charges were filed, but this gives a whole new meaning to the term, "a senior moment."
True story:
Back in the 1980's there were a rash of purse robberies from vehicles driven by women that were stopped at red traffic lights on South Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans. (This is part of the inner city with a less than stellar reputation.) The robbers would break the passenger window with a brick and then take a woman's purse that was sitting on the unoccupied passenger's front seat.
These robberies occurred once or twice a week for a few weeks and then ...
the window broke, a head and hand came through the open window, and was met with a loaded pistol held by a just off-duty lady deputy criminal sheriff. One round between the eyes and there were no more purse robberies on South Claiborne Avenue.
> True story:
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> Back in the 1980's there were a rash of purse robberies from vehicles driven by women that were stopped at red traffic lights on South Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans. (This is part of the inner city with a less than stellar reputation.) The robbers would break the passenger window with a brick and then take a woman's purse that was sitting on the unoccupied passenger's front seat.
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> These robberies occurred once or twice a week for a few weeks and then ...
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> the window broke, a head and hand came through the open window, and was met with a loaded pistol held by a just off-duty lady deputy criminal sheriff. One round between the eyes and there were no more purse robberies on South Claiborne Avenue.
Like her response. Final.B-)
In the late 70's in Houston, there was a real large uptick in robberies of small liquor stores.
This ended after in a period of about 2 weeks, the owners of said liquor stores sent 3 or more of the robbers to the county morgue. For several months liquor store robberies were unheard of.
B-)
LAC's in Action. Puts crooks on the run.:-P :good:
