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(Houston Chronicle) Hero Grandmother chases after KFC robber in her car and physically stops him from getting away: "You're messing with one of my favorite places"   (chron.com) divider line 60
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Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 09:36:29 AM  
eqtworld: She's a farking idiot.

She risked her life to protect a shift's worth of cash register earnings at KFC?


Yeah, but what if the KFC rewards her with a free plate of chicken? Huh? I bet you'd change your tune then, wouldn't you mister smartypants.

 
UberDave [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 09:39:55 AM  
KFC can make people crazy. It's that addictive chemical that makes you crave it fortnightly.

 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 09:47:57 AM  
UberDave: It's that addictive chemical that makes you crave it fortnightly.

This is probably the same chemical that makes it taste like manna from heaven the morning after it's spent the night in the fridge. I can eat cold KFC for hours.

 
steklo 2008-03-22 10:45:49 AM  
See, I prefer McDonalds over KFC

i215.photobucket.com

 
Megain [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 10:46:08 AM  
Granddaughter Kristen Sauve, a Hathaway Elementary School fifth-grader, said she wasn't surprised with Chamberlain's heroics. "She's just always been crazy," Sauve said.
"That's a good description," Chamberlain responded.
lmao

and here is a video interview with her family and tits

 
Suprman37 2008-03-22 10:49:15 AM  
Megain: and here is a video interview with her family and tits

??????

 
mcsestretch [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 10:51:33 AM  
Was the idiot tag too busy robbing the other cash registers?

 
Frosted Flake 2008-03-22 10:54:21 AM  
And what about the poor robber's street cred? To have your arse kicked, wrapped up nicely and handed back to you1 by a granny is going to have deep, searing, incarceratory consequencses.

Yeah, he'll be the "woman" in his cell.

1"Excuse me Sonny, I believe these buttocks are yours..."

 
The Duke of Carrot Flowers 2008-03-22 10:55:29 AM  
Suprman37: Megain: and here is a video interview with her family and tits

??????


Look at the video. They only show her tits.

 
Big Daddy Fat Cat 2008-03-22 10:57:47 AM  
Did she spray fryer grease from her pores (built up from a lfetime of frequenting KFC) causing the thief to slip and fall to the hard pavement?

 
captainwil 2008-03-22 11:01:11 AM  
wow... just wow

 
Megain [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 11:02:45 AM  
The Duke of Carrot Flowers: Suprman37: Megain: and here is a video interview with her family and tits

??????

Look at the video. They only show her tits.


thanks for fielding that one for me

 
SenorCellular 2008-03-22 11:03:29 AM  
volusiahistory.com
"You're messing with one of my favorite places"

 
Lamune_Baba 2008-03-22 11:04:06 AM  
eqtworld: She's a farking idiot.

She risked her life to protect a shift's worth of cash register earnings at KFC?


At what point does resisting petty criminals become worth the time and effort? Do you have a cash amount where this becomes justifiable? Maybe a handy note card for reference?

It should say a lot about what's left of our society when the only person with the gonads to actually do something was a 67 year old woman. Everyone else had important cell-phone calls to deal with anyway.

 
MIguy [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 11:07:20 AM  
eqtworld: She's a farking idiot.

She risked her life to protect a shift's worth of cash register earnings at KFC?

Most places would fire an employee for grabbing and fighting a petty crook like that, and she does not even work there..


Yeah, because a citizen doing the right thing makes her an idiot. Something tells me that anybody who ventures out of their basement is an idiot in your eyes.

 
Dubya's_Coke_Dealer 2008-03-22 11:14:08 AM  
There's a 36-year-old granny where I work. She looks MUCH better than this lady.

 
YouPeopleAreCrazy 2008-03-22 11:23:03 AM  
eqtworld: Well, for me there is no dollar value. Last month I saw a guy shoplift a candy bar from the market: I threw my 6 month olds son at him and that slowed him down a bit.

You are an idiot.

No, I take that back. Idiots look at you and realize "hey...there is someone dumber than I am".

Anything can be taken to the illogical extreme.

 
moof 2008-03-22 11:24:25 AM  
Dubya's_Coke_Dealer: There's a 36-year-old granny where I work. She looks MUCH better than this lady.

GYLF?

 
Dubya's_Coke_Dealer 2008-03-22 11:27:01 AM  
moof: Dubya's_Coke_Dealer: There's a 36-year-old granny where I work. She looks MUCH better than this lady.

GYLF?


Hmmm. Now that I think about it, maybe you're onto something. On the other hand, generally speaking I don't monkey with the coworkers. Bad juju.

 
i am the infidel 2008-03-22 11:29:36 AM  
Awesome!

 
OtherLittleGuy 2008-03-22 11:30:59 AM  
eqtworld: She's a farking idiot.

She risked her life to protect a shift's worth of cash register earnings at KFC?

Most places would fire an employee for grabbing and fighting a petty crook like that, and she does not even work there..



....and the police probably gave the same verbal beatdown to Granny.

Locally, guy robs store. Citizen stops robber with car. Who got arrested?

/if you want to call the cops, have Dunkin Donuts on speeddial

 
OttoDog 2008-03-22 11:32:45 AM  
I once saw a guy assault a girl at a quickie mart. After smacking her down, he stole her car keys and ran out to his POS truck and tried to haul ass. I don't know why, but I ran out and grabbed the tailgate of the truck as he tried to speed away.
After sliding across the parking lot for about 20 yds, three police cars converged on the guy. I later testified in court about the assault.

Sometimes things just piss you off, and you go on autopilot. It might be a stupid, boneheaded thing to do in retrospect, but you can at least look back and know you didn't stand idly by and watch someone else get farked over.

 
Cosmic Crab 2008-03-22 11:38:53 AM  
UberDave: KFC can make people crazy. It's that addictive chemical that makes you crave it fortnightly.

It hasn't been the same since they kept reducing the number of "secret herbs and spices", switched to those mutant chicken things, changed the name, and then finally swapped the MSG for cocaine.

KFC is still just good chicken thing.

 
i am the infidel 2008-03-22 11:41:20 AM  
OttoDog: you didn't stand idly by and watch someone else get farked over

You da man.

/It's sad when we even have to discuss whether what she did was right or wrong. This country is becoming nothing more that a collection of 300 million sheep.

 
USCLaw2010 2008-03-22 11:47:15 AM  
The best KFCs have the buffets for 6 dollars so you can eat as much as you want....and then wait 45 minutes to destroy the toilet.

 
hyperflame 2008-03-22 11:49:25 AM  
eqtworld: YouPeopleAreCrazy: Anything can be taken to the illogical extreme.

I guess having your Grandmother killed for the $248 in a fast food cash drawer would make you feel better as long as it was recovered.

The very reason these companies have such policies in place is becuase they know their floor merchandise/cash is not worth a person's life. Take their information, make note of description and anything else you can see, then give that information to the police.

Any police officer or store manager will tell you the same thing. Do not escalate a situation into physical violence.


QFT. We pay the police to investigate stuff like this. Let them handle it.

 
OZZ 2008-03-22 11:58:38 AM  
Nothing like risking your life for some insured corporate profits.

 
rabidferret 2008-03-22 12:07:12 PM  
If she's black, that's all kinds of stereotyped awesome.

/badass granny though

 
flypusher713 2008-03-22 12:09:31 PM  
OZZ: Nothing like risking your life for some insured corporate profits.

I suspect it was more of a "not in MY neighborhood!" sort of thing. That's why a whole lot of people in these parts are sympathizing with Joe Horn.

/and OttoDog, that was nuts, in a magnificent bastard sort of way! Nothing like some good old fashioned righteous anger.

 
alfredromeo 2008-03-22 12:13:27 PM  
I used to love this stuff as a kid, then the last time we got it, it was just a big bag of warm grease. The next morning, however, it had turned to awesome. Still, when I eat KFC, I feel the same way that some people do after paying for the love of strangers:

1) this just isn't that great

2) self-loathing afterwards.

 
Meow Mix 2008-03-22 12:20:30 PM  
I think it was this lady...

You hear me??
(new window)

/fry that chicken!

 
Ex-Republican 2008-03-22 12:27:32 PM  
Please be black, please be black, please be black... damn! no picture.

 
Pantload 2008-03-22 12:29:41 PM  
I witnessed a hit and run accident (two cars). So I chased the offender. when he realized he was being chased, he pulled off into a company's driveway.

Cop didn't tell me anything. The ladies who got hit were overly appreciative. and I was late for work.


Evil needs only that a just man do nothing

 
Pantload 2008-03-22 12:30:27 PM  
Ex-Republican: Please be black, please be black, please be black... damn! no picture.

Ain't no black folks in Washington, fool

 
Megain [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 12:32:39 PM  
Ex-Republican: Please be black, please be black, please be black... damn! no picture.

ummmm... the video i linked clearly shows she's white

 
jigger 2008-03-22 12:53:25 PM  
fark KFC and their chicken torturing asses.

 
CerusVI 2008-03-22 01:18:13 PM  
Eh, if the person doing the crime doesn't seem like much of a threat, I might try and tackle him, if he had a gun and seemed nervous or homicidal, I might try to tackle him if he wasn't facing me, and wasn't in a good position to shoot someone as we tussled.

That all assumes I could get my shiat together to do anything at all, which thus far hasn't been tested under that kind of stress, likely that I'd just go all fetal position and whimper.

 
Oldiron_79 2008-03-22 01:19:16 PM  
Mmmm, KFC. I'm gonna go get a bucket. Fark the PETA hippies and the "torture' allegations.

 
gorbishof 2008-03-22 01:21:54 PM  
i75.photobucket.com

 
swaxhog 2008-03-22 01:39:28 PM  
UberDave: KFC can make people crazy. It's that addictive chemical that makes you crave it fortnightly.

Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee beady eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"

/got the reference

 
YouPeopleAreCrazy 2008-03-22 01:55:51 PM  
eqtworld: I guess having your Grandmother killed for the $248 in a fast food cash drawer would make you feel better as long as it was recovered.

Again with the illogical extremes.

You know why these types of crimes are so prevalent? Because no one does anything, and there is little chance of real consequences.

Some asshat steals a small sum from a store? The police aren't going to invest a lot of time in following up. So the clown is emboldened to do it again. And again. And again.

If more people were likely to say "No, you can't do that, you dumbass!", maybe there would be a little less crime around.

/police can't be everywhere
//nor do I want them to be

 
OttoDog 2008-03-22 02:00:44 PM  
YouPeopleAreCrazy:
You know why these types of crimes are so prevalent? Because no one does anything, and there is little chance of real consequences.

If more people were likely to say "No, you can't do that, you dumbass!", maybe there would be a little less crime around.

/police can't be everywhere
//nor do I want them to be


Choose the kind of world you want to live in. One where your fellow citizens, seeing evil or injustice befall you, feel compelled to aid you in any capacity they can, or one where they shrug it off as "someone else's job".

 
flypusher713 2008-03-22 02:03:21 PM  
OttoDog:

Choose the kind of world you want to live in. One where your fellow citizens, seeing evil or injustice befall you, feel compelled to aid you in any capacity they can, or one where they shrug it off as "someone else's job".


A world with lots of ass-kicking grannies would be a very good thing!

 
elpepe55 2008-03-22 02:20:42 PM  
The fact that this lady is being hailed as a "hero" for protecting $200 worth of corporate profits makes me realize how totally and completely farked society has become.

You want to see a real hero? How about the guy who risked his life to rescue someone from an oncoming NYC subway train a few weeks ago? That is a hero.

Some idiot lady who risks her life and others' lives so that one of the largest, most unethical multinational corporate cancers can save a few hundred (likely insured) dollars is only being called a hero because people accept that our purpose in life is to be cogs in the corporate machine to enrich the few who are in the club.

 
Yogimus 2008-03-22 02:29:33 PM  
In a perfect world she would have just shot the assbag dead.

 
Hetfield 2008-03-22 02:43:25 PM  
Maybe after you all have finished worshipping her, you'll stop to think for a minute if it is such a good idea to encourage a clearly disturbed individual that has a ridiculously low threshold for violence and doesn't mind putting herself and others at risk just because she's a greedy KFC whore who sees her number one source of lower class food threatened. Next time she snaps, there will probably be bloodshed, and you will have yourselves to thank for that because you just couldn't stop fellating her and giving her the attention that all lunatics thrive on. She should be put down immediately. Shame on you all.

 
OttoDog 2008-03-22 02:57:51 PM  
Hetfield: Maybe after you all have finished worshipping her, you'll stop to think for a minute.......

1/10. The repeated hyperbole made this a caricature of a decent troll. Better luck next time.

 
Acharne [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 04:06:50 PM  
Hetfield: Maybe after you all have finished worshipping her, you'll stop to think for a minute if it is such a good idea to encourage a clearly disturbed individual that has a ridiculously low threshold for violence and doesn't mind putting herself and others at risk just because she's a greedy KFC whore who sees her number one source of lower class food threatened. Next time she snaps, there will probably be bloodshed, and you will have yourselves to thank for that because you just couldn't stop fellating her and giving her the attention that all lunatics thrive on. She should be put down immediately. Shame on you all.

After reading your profile, I'm more afraid of my sister dating you and ending up with two black eyes.

 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark] 2008-03-22 04:25:47 PM  
Hetfield: Maybe after you all have finished worshipping her, you'll stop to think for a minute if it is such a good idea to encourage a clearly disturbed individual that has a ridiculously low threshold for violence and doesn't mind putting herself and others at risk just because she's a greedy KFC whore who sees her number one source of lower class food threatened. Next time she snaps, there will probably be bloodshed, and you will have yourselves to thank for that because you just couldn't stop fellating her and giving her the attention that all lunatics thrive on. She should be put down immediately. Shame on you all.

I lol'd.

 
brantgoose 2008-03-22 05:19:47 PM  
Now that's what I call customer loyalty!

 
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