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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 08:45 PM
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You never know what you're gonna get when you mess with people.
(update from http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8144039">kayakjohnny's thread yesterday)

http://www.wftv.com/countybycounty/23151019/detail.html">70-Year-Old Woman Puts Carjacker In Headlock

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- WFTV spoke with a 70-year-old woman Wednesday who put a carjacker in a headlock. The man tried to steal her minivan Tuesday in Daytona Beach while she loaded her groceries. However, Elludee Haliday wasn't willing to give up her van.

“You don't have time to think.You have to do the best you can to survive,” Haliday said.

Haliday has five stints in her heart, but she is an active 70-year-old nurse. So, it's no surprise to her that instinct took over when police say the man tried to carjack her at the Walmart on Beville Road Tuesday in broad daylight.

“I went after him,” she said.

The victim was loading her groceries inside the minivan when she saw the suspect hop in the driver’s seat. At the same time, she opened the sliding door and got in as he took off.

“I thought, ‘You’re mine now boy!’” she said......


...According to http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2010/04/14/woman-70-hits-back-at-carjacker.html">another story, she had studied judo, jujitsu and capoeira growing up in Brazil.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 08:47 PM
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1. He tried to rob Madea?
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 10:01 PM
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6. Lol! nt
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 10:41 PM
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10. I. am. so. laughing. I now have a coughing fit. N/T
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 11:40 PM
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11. this woman is awesome: you're mine now, boy. I bet her sons if
she has any have heard that with equal dread. :rofl:
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 10:42 AM
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13. In my mind, I hear it as kind of a low whisper....
...the kind that implies there's a knife in the speaker's teeth. :rofl:
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blueamy66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 08:51 PM
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2. Did she get a ticket for
not yielding to a pedestrian?
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 09:14 PM
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3. I was amazed until I read the part that said...
"but she is an active 70-year-old nurse." Working as a Nurse makes you tough as nails and you end up with excess pent up aggression. All those years of wrangling dead weight patients paid off. I want to be like her when I retire.:loveya:
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 09:15 PM
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4. I posted last night that she had to be a nurse
You really, really don't want to fuck with a nurse. We know how to hurt you.
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 01:30 PM
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14. I shared this with my nurse buds...
at our 'nurse meeting' at a local watering hole. We laughed our asses off. Poor sucker never had a chance. She had her paycheck with her from what I read-you know she worked hard for that money!
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ZeitgeistObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 09:22 PM
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5. I love this!
“I thought, ‘You’re mine now boy!’” she said......

:rofl:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 10:08 PM
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7. "He wasn't saying much" she was quoted as saying
"Mostly, all he said was "I can't breathe""

From an NPR broadcast I heard tonight.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 10:10 PM
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8. "Stints"? Gah, the shitty editing.
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:37 AM
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12. Really. I don't know how many times I've seen this misspelled. Argh.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 10:20 PM
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9. the martial arts are definitely worth studying
criminals are unlikely to know them. And the allow a smaller person to defeat a larger.
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