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I dedicate this thread to Thunderbird!

by joseph7384
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I found this and thought you might enjoy it.

Get Out Of The Car! This is a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida: An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it! GET OUT OF THE CAR!"

The four men didn't wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then she realized why.

It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee, and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat. A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake.

The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed. Moral of the story? If you're going to have a senior moment...make it memorable!
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    I'm sorry. This should not be funny. But it is. It really is.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
    snopes.com: Gun-Toting Grannies

    But it's still funny.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

      snopes.com: Gun-Toting Grannies

      But it's still funny.


      Snopes? Paul Myers. You KNOW better, sir.

      In this case they might actually be right, though. However - I have tried to get into the wrong car before so it's not like it's outrageously wrong even if just a story.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
    Sal,
    Snopes? Paul Myers. You KNOW better, sir.
    Know better than... what?

    Show me any incidence where they say it's false and it's not. I haven't found one in the decade plus that I've been checking things against their database. They may be wrong on something, but I haven't seen it yet.

    I have, however, saved some of my friends a lot of trouble by referencing Snopes when they send me outrageous stories. Like asking if they're likely to (for example) end up in a bathtub full of ice with both kidneys gone...


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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

      I have, however, saved some of my friends a lot of trouble by referencing Snopes when they send me outrageous stories.
      I think, on a lot of forums, people often go to Snopes to get the story and post it. I don't for a minute think Joseph didn't did that and besides, from the point of view of someone drinking their first coffee of the morning, it was quite amusing to imagine, true or not.

      Mind you, this is true. You've got to admit, this Grandma is as hard as nails.

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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

      Sal,Know better than... what?

      Show me any incidence where they say it's false and it's not. I haven't found one in the decade plus that I've been checking things against their database. They may be wrong on something, but I haven't seen it yet.

      I have, however, saved some of my friends a lot of trouble by referencing Snopes when they send me outrageous stories. Like asking if they're likely to (for example) end up in a bathtub full of ice with both kidneys gone...


      Paul
      They are wrong fairly frequently if you get into the right areas - and according to common knowledge stuff they are usually right, but they don't do a lot of deep search. They're mostly googlers themselves. So if all you want is from word around the web, they hit it. Serious stuff, though, they do save time sometimes in beginning research. Once you get past the light stuff, they no longer know what to do with it.

      It's just I cringe when people use them as a reference, because they aren't professional researchers. They're just a husband and wife team who look stuff up a little bit. Some people see them referenced and think they are the be all and end all in authority after seeing them quoted, so I avoid using them as reference. Most actual researchers I know won't reference them either so I was surprised seeing you reference them.

      Then again - I share stuff shared with me on facebook without looking it up a lot, too, if I think anyone's interested in seeing the article, so ..............just sayin'
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      • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
        Sal,

        They may well be wrong on some things. I haven't seen it yet, but I don't rely on them for weighty research. Just the sort of urban legends that tend to get passed around like this one.

        For the important stuff, I go to Fox News.


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        • Profile picture of the author MikeAmbrosio
          Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

          Sal,

          They may well be wrong on some things. I haven't seen it yet, but I don't rely on them for weighty research. Just the sort of urban legends that tend to get passed around like this one.

          For the important stuff, I go to Fox News.


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        • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
          Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post


          For the important stuff, I go to Fox News.


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          Lol. Good one Paul!
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    Originally Posted by Richard Van View Post

    I think, on a lot of forums, people often go to Snopes to get the story and post it. I don't for a minute think Joseph didn't did that and besides, from the point of view of someone drinking their first coffee of the morning, it was quite amusing to imagine, true or not.

    Mind you, this is true. You've got to admit, this Grandma is as hard as nails.

    Grandma Attacks stops 6 Jewlery Robbers in street - YouTube

    Top comment on Youtube right now:

    yonis farah

    4 months ago

    She deserves a rolex
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by MikeTucker View Post

      Top comment on Youtube right now:

      yonis farah

      4 months ago

      She deserves a rolex
      I'm pretty sure criminals would avoid any neighborhood where even elderly women won't shy away from a confrontation, lol.

      Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

      I found this and thought you might enjoy it.
      Yeah, that was my mother.
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    There was an armed robbery attempt in a town about 30 miles from here that didn't go well for the robbers. The 96-year-old store owner refused to open the register and instead said he could have all the tootsie rolls he wanted. She also refused to go to the back room when ordered to do so. The would-be robber ended up leaving empty-handed. The two of them, one inside and one outside, were eventually caught.

    http://news.yahoo.com/elderly-grocer...150913503.html
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  • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
    Just to clear up some confusion, I didn't research the story. Why should I have? I grabbed it from my Facebook feed.

    My point was that sometimes Thunderbird would reply to a thread with an answer that should have been to another thread, for whatever reason, maybe he's tired or spilled coffee on himself and when I read the story I thought of him.

    Doesn't really matter if it's true or not, does it.
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