FARK.com: (1305852) Elderly woman abandons her cane, chases down two purse snatchers, busts their car window with her bare hands and gets her purse back. (With video report)

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		Elderly woman abandons her cane, chases down two purse snatchers, busts their car window with her bare hands and gets her purse back. (With video report) (tampabays10.com)		89
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DandamanFL		2005-01-14 08:48:10 AM

Get some grandma!

LarsThorwald		2005-01-14 08:54:56 AM

STOP, OR MY MOM WILL PHYSICALLY ASSAULT YOU!

NICU8697		2005-01-14 08:58:43 AM

Go Granny Go! Bustin out the IV bag of WhoopAss.

suebhoney		2005-01-14 09:13:29 AM

Damn, I hope I'm that spry when I'm her age.

GraphicAddiction		2005-01-14 09:16:40 AM

*shhhhhhhh*

she used a stunt double.

ThatVANguy		2005-01-14 09:27:56 AM

I snatched some old broads bag once. Imagine my surprise when I found out that "Colostomy" was not a fancy designer name.

DogTastesGood		2005-01-14 09:29:43 AM

Shouldn't this have the "HeroGranny" tag?

Funsucker		2005-01-14 11:36:04 AM

Sounds like her PCP was in that purse...

ozone		2005-01-14 01:22:16 PM

perhaps it was revenge for the one:

I realize that pic is the anthesis of the article, sue me.

IBleedPurple11		2005-01-14 02:19:31 PM

Florida or not, how does this NOT have a "hero" tag?

Great job, Granny. \m/

donald pleasance fetishist		2005-01-14 02:22:38 PM

Wow! This story is almost as inspiring as the bus-jacking lady in "Polyester" chasing down Stiv Bators' car, biting the tire flat, then proceeding to give him a whumpin'.

Conversation_Killer		2005-01-14 02:23:47 PM

Those purse-snatchers will never live that down.

//hero

cooper		2005-01-14 02:24:33 PM

That will be EXACTLY the way I'm going to be when I'm old lady. I'll be really bitter about being old, so I'll have alot of angst to release.

JoeCollege		2005-01-14 02:25:43 PM

What's really cool is she did all this for pictures of her husband....I think. Could be the other purse rescuer in the Tampa area.

trippdogg		2005-01-14 02:26:20 PM

Don't do the crime if you can't stomp the victim into a cowering mass of blood and broken bones...

Diogenes		2005-01-14 02:28:00 PM

_________
DIOGENES:
"Who chose this retarded article format?"

I hate when they go all stream of consciousness in a news item.

office_despot		2005-01-14 02:28:00 PM

Just goes to show, it's not physical conditioning that counts -- it's how mean you are. Which rarely shows on the outside.

geosprint		2005-01-14 02:28:15 PM

Man, I know she is from Florida but a hero tag is quite proper in this instance.

UncleFriendly		2005-01-14 02:28:28 PM

Woah. She's Yoda.

supertrippy247		2005-01-14 02:29:00 PM

Misuse of the FLORIDA tag... this is by no means the fusion of asinine, dumbass, and amusing that the orange state can produce.

HERO!!!

Kanemano		2005-01-14 02:29:20 PM

the thieves are now cell block worm food, how can you prove that you are tough if you get your ass handed to you by a granny

nadynem		2005-01-14 02:29:27 PM

You go girl!

Zenitals		2005-01-14 02:29:37 PM

Grandma 3:16 says i just went geriatric on your ass, biatch!!!

FarkLordOfTheSith		2005-01-14 02:30:04 PM

Wow. The Bionic Grandma.

SuburbanCowboy		2005-01-14 02:30:11 PM

She is only 54, not exactly elderly. The only reason she was walking with a cane is because she is morbidly obese. It still took some guts to do what she did though.

Antonsmith1		2005-01-14 02:31:02 PM

54 isn't tha told my dad is 54!

NormanEinstein		2005-01-14 02:31:49 PM

I realize this happened in Florida, but I think the Hero tag is more appropriate. (The Florida tag was created to celebrate the sheer volume of bizarre stuff that happens in Florida.)

You go, grandma!

Shaved Puppy		2005-01-14 02:33:12 PM

She looks pretty fat.

Hey8		2005-01-14 02:34:08 PM

HERO

bipthefool		2005-01-14 02:34:14 PM

Holy Crap! What do they feed the grannies in Florida and may I have some?

Conversation_Killer		2005-01-14 02:35:16 PM

She is only 54, not exactly elderly. The only reason she was walking with a cane is because she is morbidly obese. It still took some guts to do what she did though.

Okay, well - a 54 year old, morbidly obese woman who is dependant on a cane still chased down and farked up the guys who snatched her purse.

//still a hero

UncleFriendly		2005-01-14 02:37:36 PM

While 54 ain't really elderly, she's still a hardass granny.

She sounds Northern. If my grandma, who was from Tennesee, had been in that situation, the thieves would have been made to cut some switches down.

West_Side_Charlie		2005-01-14 02:37:38 PM

Maybe next time she'll think twice before saying no to a second set of prints.

/go, granny, go!

LittleSmitty		2005-01-14 02:39:00 PM

That granny = BADASS

West_Side_Charlie		2005-01-14 02:39:02 PM

That was two gals, killer. Equal opportunity, right?

Andy Andy		2005-01-14 02:39:18 PM

granny rage.

zartan		2005-01-14 02:40:13 PM

Granny got game!

Monroe		2005-01-14 02:40:27 PM

I love that anyone with gray hair is considered elderly. This is a total pet peeve of mine. At what point does one become elderly? I don't even think a 60 or 65 year old should be called elderly.

Son of Thunder		2005-01-14 02:42:29 PM

Evildoers, prepare to suck hard on wattle-chinned, gray-haired, flabby JUSTICE!

phenn		2005-01-14 02:45:12 PM

Don't fark with Nana.

Conversation_Killer		2005-01-14 02:46:56 PM

Slinkyfarm That was two gals, killer. Equal opportunity, right?

Humph - it was more fun picturing her chasing down two guys, but it was just two girlies, huh? Ah, well. Not old. No guys. Still kind of cool story though.

Cataclaw		2005-01-14 02:52:09 PM

Do you want Karate?

/obvious

Diogenes		2005-01-14 02:52:11 PM

Not to detract from this heroic granny, but we just threw a huge birthday bash for my grandmother's 75th birthday last weekend.

Grandma, Mom, Aunt Cathy, and Aunt Jackie (in age descending order).

All three of the girls are over 50. I hope I get their genetic mojo.

jooboy		2005-01-14 02:53:41 PM

Okay...um...HERO tag?!?!

/orders immediate review of tag assignment...

Githerax		2005-01-14 02:54:55 PM

_________
DIOGENES:
"Who chose this retarded article format?"

I hate when they go all stream of consciousness in a news item.

Contrariwise, I enjoyed the format for this article. Attempting to render a monologue in typical journalingo usually comes out pretty dry. This fella's use of quotes developed and paced the article nicely. Demerits for missing quotation marks at the end, though.

derangedlunatech		2005-01-14 02:55:36 PM

Go Grambo!!!!

Oh - no comments on this other story fromt he same site?

A Citrus High School teacher's aide accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student is accused of having sex with another student. He's a 16-year-old boy.