Aug 19 2008
Granny Got a Gun…
An 85-year-old woman is being credited with stopping a would-be thief after she caught the teen in her home Sunday afternoon. Leda Smith held the unidentified intruder at gunpoint until police arrived.
Smith said she had just come home from church when she noticed a door open at her home and an outer door broken. Lieberum said Smith immediately realized someone was in her home and decided to retrieve her handgun and went looking for the intruder.
“I saw him move by my keyboard near the wall but I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun,” Smith said, noting that she started keeping the .22-caliber revolver by her bed after a burglary at a neighboring home several weeks ago.
“I said, ‘What are you doing in my house?’” Smith said during an interview Monday with WPXI-TV, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, a news partner with the Herald-Standard. “He just kept saying he didn’t do it.”
Smith ordered the teen to turn around and not to run and then had him pick up the telephone and dial 911.
She then ordered the boy to give her the telephone after placing the call and she told dispatchers about the intruder.
Officials from 911 stayed on the telephone with Smith as she had the boy lay facedown and spread-eagled on the floor.
“It was exciting,” Smith said of the incident. “I just hope I broke up the ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here.”
Read more here.
[From me]
I can hear her now saying, “Go ahead, make my day.” or “I’ll be baaaack!”
What do you think?
4 responses so far
I don’t think the elevator went all the way to the top in that young lad…
The article said she walked right past him to her bedroom, where she retrieved the gun!
Wouldn’t that have been the ideal time to run!
M. Steve Heartsill’s last blog post..More Questions I Can’t Answer!
Can you see her telling that young man to turn around and saying, “I have this gun. I know how to cock and load. But my aim is not as good as it used to be so who knows where it will hit you. But hit you it will!” Then I can see her telling the officer who comes, “Book ‘em Dano.”
Bill(cycleguy)’s last blog post..It’s Coming!! FINALLY!!
Before long, Fox will make this into a reality show…and the theme song, “Bad granny, Bad granny, what you gonna do…what you gonna do when she comes for you…”
M. Steve Heartsill’s last blog post..More Questions I Can’t Answer!
I agree with Steve, this is becoming more of a regular occurrence. What I notice is that it’s a .22 — now being shot with that is just cruel!
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