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Algorem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:44 PM
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91-yearold woman purses off snatcher
Police: 91-year-old teaches purse snatcher a lesso

6/6/2005, 2:59 p.m. ET

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-17/1118083315146580.xml&storylist=cleveland

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — ...

Katherine Woodworth started swinging her purse at the man and hit him until he ran away, police said. He had walked up to her in a department store parking lot and told her that he was going to take her purse.

"I didn't have my hearing aid in, and I thought he said that he was going to take my pulse," she said. "Then he said it again that he was going to take my purse and I said, 'No, you're not.'"

The small woman with gray hair and glasses turned angry.

"He just made me mad," Woodworth said. "I wasn't really thinking, I just hit him."...

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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:54 PM
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1. Hope my 91-year-old Mom would stow the heroics in any similar situation
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 05:49 PM
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2. Grandma Dynamite!
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 07:16 PM
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3. My mom would have done this, too. She would have beaten the
guy to death with her purse.
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