Nothing wrong with that line - bit slangy in a UK tabloid aimed at UK people with UK language.

But then why not simply ignore the horror of the story itself. I know the hoodie can't be nicked, but then the gran should not have been either.

Assault usually has a degree of intent, and I can't think she rushed out of her house to pick on him seeing him pass her home innocently.

I love how the article goes on in painful detail about this woman's life story when the fact is absolutely none of that matters as far as the law is concerned.

Eric Shaun: FTFA: "I stood up to a hoodie and it was me who got done."

What the hell? I thought the British could speak English. That doesn't even make sense.

That is something I'd hear in Georgia.

/The state.
//People confuse the two sometimes.

It makes perfect sense. Sorry, should a British newspaper start using American slang instead of British slang so Americans can understand it? The people who the newspaper is geared towards and sold to understand it perfectly. Perhaps Mexican newspapers should start being printed just in English too while we're at it so you can understand them? It's American-centric people like you who think the world should revolve America around and be Americanized who make the world hate Americans.

/sorry I haven't had my coffee yet
//I don't drink coffee
///Now THAT doesn't make sense

This is worse than Hitler.

Sybarite: I love how the article goes on in painful detail about this woman's life story when the fact is absolutely none of that matters as far as the law is concerned.

It seems the author of the article had already decided that there's no possible way that a 71 year old woman could be the aggressor. I have to wonder about the honesty of a woman using a "walking frame" to appear in court after she was willing to leave her house, confront the teenager who is much bigger than her, and apparently was holding him by the lapels (hoodies have lapels?) when the police get there.

Maybe she just made a series of bad choices and really was the victim, but it sounds like she may not be as innocent as the story implies.

Gran in dock for 'prodding' hoodie

She farked a sweatshirt on a pier? Hawt.

To sum up-

1)Crabby old biatch does a get the hell off my lawn to some kids playing ball on her street.

2) Kids call crabby old biatch a crabby old biatch, keep playing.

3) Having failed to scare off kids with crabby old biatch act, crabby old biatch goes out and gets physical with teenagers, figuring, "I may be a crabby old biatch, but I want them off my street, so I'll go scare them off by being a pushy, scary, crabby old biatch. Besides, who's gonna believe these damn kids...and I'll tell people they threw rocks, even though no one else saw it, there's no broken windows, or any other evidence besides my old lady righteousness. Maybe I'll ever claim they attacked me."

4) Kid is smarter than crabby old biatch, and actually uses the law to protect his rights to play ball without being hassled by crabby old biatches.

5) Crabby old biatch meets her match.

Gamer Grrrl: It's impossible to say what really happened because the article is pathetic. In the old-school definition of pathetic.

It'd be interesting when and if the word pathetic goes half circle and starts to be used to mean something positive.

/Yo dawg, that trick was pa-theh-tik