(Former Ms America) Venus Ramey, 82, shoots tire, stops intruders

[Squatch]

After confronting a man she said was stealing from her Kentucky farm, Ramey pulled out a gun and shot out a tire on his truck so he couldn't leave, allowing police to arrest him and two others.

Ramey was on her Lincoln County farm last week - "Friday the 13th, apropos date, isn't it?" she noted Thursday - feeding a horse when she saw her dog run to a nearby building where she stores old steel-shaping machines, lathes and other equipment.

"This stuff is over 100 years old," she said.

When she asked a man what he was doing, he replied "scrapping," and said he would leave. I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said. She had to balance on her walking stick as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun. "I didn't even think twice. I just went and did it. If they'd even dared come close to me, they'd be 6 feet under by now." Ramey then tried to flag down people driving by. When one stopped, she asked them to call 911. Eventually, three people were arrested - one at the scene and two others walking on a nearby road.

"They've been stealing from me for years. Those good-for-nothing slobs," she said.

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[RufusTFirefly]

1. Was this shortly before she gave birth to triplets? n/t

[NashVegas]

2. Hee Hee

I love that movie.

[Squatch]

3. What movie?

[NashVegas]

7. I Think

It was a Triplets of Belleville reference. Very feisty older women.

[Mr. Earl]

4. I like

This old ladie, she is made of good stock.

[liam_laddie]

5. Used to work across the street...

from her nice, old Italianate corner house at 12th & Jackson Streets in Cincinnati's "Over-the-Rhine" neighborhood. She was a unique treasure, eccentric in the best way. The house is gone, a victim of "urban renewal."

[tanyev]

6. Bet she was the only Venus in class.

My grandmother and her sisters all had names like Henrietta, Agnes, and Bertha.

[CookCountyResident]

8. Sounds like......

Granny Clampett!!!!!!!

[CookCountyResident]

9. Picture of her back when she won the Pageant

[meldroc]

10. NICE! A gun put to good use for once!