'Super Granny' Breaks up Jewelry Heist With Handbag

[malaise]

Video
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/elderly-woman-attacks-robbers-with-purse-12866213

http://abcnews.go.com/International/northampton-grandmother-stops-jewelry-store-robbery-handbag/story?id=12866752
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A 75-year-old woman rushed into action yesterday morning when six robbers, with sledgehammers, attempted a smash-and-grab at a jewelry store in Northampton, England. Ann Timson, armed with only her handbag, took on the men, breaking up the robbery and causing them to flee without taking anything.

"At first I thought one of them was being set upon by three others. ... I was not going to stand by and watch somebody take a beating or worse so I tried to intervene," the grandmother told the Daily Mail. "What concerned me was that too many people just stood around watching as if they were in shock and nobody was doing anything. ... When I got closer to them I realized it was a robbery and then I was even more angry that they felt they could get away with what they were doing in broad daylight."

Some newspapers have given the elderly woman the nickname Super Granny. Because of her actions no one was injured and one of the robbers was detained by other members of the public at the scene. Police were later able to arrest three men, but are still looking for two other suspects.

[polly7]

1. Go, Granny! Maybe she carries a brick in that purse. That was great! n/t.

[malaise]

8. I just loved that video

Granny in red -she ran from across the road haahahahah! Go Granny! :rofl:

[virgogal]

2. Didn't another woman use her handbag on an armed guy a few

months back?

[hootinholler]

7. That was the town council shooting

I don't remember where.

-Hoot

[virgogal]

13. Tough ladies----good for them.

[malaise]

11. Mine could stop most robberies

:D

[virgogal]

12. Ditto.

[rfranklin]

3. If only she had been carrying a firearm...

She could have turned them all into corpses!

[HipChick]

5. It's the UK...

and unless she knows how to get them on the black market..ain't happening

[slackmaster]

4. To be fair, it was a Cold Steel brand weighted combat handbag with a Kevlar-reinforced strap

:-)

[spin]

9. Cold steel makes some canes that can be used as a weapon ...

For example watch this video of a sword cane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ozTWYvk2o&feature=related

Or this walking stick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJvLNkFzblQ&feature=related

[slackmaster]

14. They also make a weaponized baseball bat that is shaped just like a regulation bat

But it's made of super-tough plastic and has added weight to increase its moment of inertia.

[saras]

6. Good role model

"What concerned me was that too many people just stood around watching as if they were in shock"

With enough citizens like her we would need neither right-to-carry laws nor repressive police.

[malaise]

10. Isn't that the truth

SHe grew up when community had meaning.