MrBishop
Well-Known Member
Go Get 'Em, Grandma!
Three cheers for Grannie! An 80-year-old widow in Pennsylvania played the hero when she used a ceremonial sword kept on display in her home to fend off two burglars. The robbers, aged 18 to 20, busted into Jean Freke's home before confronting the widow in her drawing room. After she was tossed to the ground, Freke, who suffers from angina, wrestled with one of the men and then threatened the other with the sword she grabbed off the wall. The raiders fled empty-handed after being threatened with the sword, which was a pre-World War I Army officer's dress sword belonging to Freke's late husband's father. Freke's arm was bruised in the attack, but she was otherwise uninjured.
http://www.wired.com/news/furthermore
Three cheers for Grannie! An 80-year-old widow in Pennsylvania played the hero when she used a ceremonial sword kept on display in her home to fend off two burglars. The robbers, aged 18 to 20, busted into Jean Freke's home before confronting the widow in her drawing room. After she was tossed to the ground, Freke, who suffers from angina, wrestled with one of the men and then threatened the other with the sword she grabbed off the wall. The raiders fled empty-handed after being threatened with the sword, which was a pre-World War I Army officer's dress sword belonging to Freke's late husband's father. Freke's arm was bruised in the attack, but she was otherwise uninjured.
http://www.wired.com/news/furthermore