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Grandmother Fends Off Intruder With a Cell Phone

by Terrence O'Brien on February 11, 2008 at 02:13 PM

Grandmother fends off intruder with cell phone
How's this for a 21st century update of an adage? "The cell phone is mightier than the Taser." No? Kinda lame? Yeah, you're probably right. But lame or not it's also apparently true. A grandmother in Speake, Alabama chased off an intruder Saturday night with nothing more than a cell phone. According to police reports, the man attempted to use a Taser on the nice old lady, and she even believes he may have succeeded. How she was still standing boggles our minds and leads us to believe he probably missed.

The incident took place at around 8 P.M. when the grandmother, with her granddaughter in the house, noticed her porch light wasn't working. She opened the door to see what had happened when a man tried to force his way in and the altercation took place. We're not sure exactly how she fended off her would be attacker with her mobile handset, be we're assuming she used it as a blunt object with which to bludgeon him.

From Decatur Daily

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