SWEET AND ARMED

This is one teenager who will hopefully think about the path he has chosen, and which he will chose for the future.  I bet he thought he had an easy mark in an 85 year old women, a really brave young man.  Any bets his pants were damp during the phone call?

 

 

There is saying from our history.  "God made men, Col. Colt made them equal." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARMED 85-YEAR-OLD WOMAN FORCES INTRUDER TO CALL COPS

 

POINT MARION, Pa. (AP) — An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.

 

 

 

 

Does She look like a victim??  She easily could have been.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.

Smith heard someone break into her home Monday afternoon and grabbed the .22-caliber revolver she had been keeping by her bed since a neighbor's home was burglarized a few weeks ago.

"I said 'What are you doing in my house?' He just kept saying he didn't do it," Smith said.

After the 17-year-old boy called 911, Smith kept holding the gun on him until state police arrived at her home in Springhill Township, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh.

The boy will be charged with attempted burglary and related offenses in juvenile court, Trooper Christian Lieberum said. He was not identified because of his age.

"It was exciting," Smith said. "I just hope I broke up the (burglary) ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here."

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