Granny's got a gun...

These stories just make me feel warm and fuzzy. Picture it... punk kid breaks into old lady's house because he thinks she is a "easy target" and comes face to face with a gun. Now imagine you are the boy, and imagine the embarrassment (if in deed he is part of a burglary ring) when he gets out and has to explain how the old lady held him at gunpoint and made him call 911 on himself...

Oh that is not something he will ever live down. And maybe the old lady taught this boy a lesson that his parents never did. Don't mess with granny, especially when granny's got a GUN !

Here is the story.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,406185,00.html

"POINT MARION, Pa. — An 85-year-old woman busted a would-be burglar by pulling a gun on him, then forcing him to call 911 while she kept him in her sights, police said.
"I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," said Leda Smith, of Springhill Township, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh.
Smith heard the 17-year-old boy break into her home about 3 p.m. Monday. She grabbed a .22-caliber revolver she began keeping by her bed when a neighbor's home was burglarized a few weeks ago.
"I said, 'What are you doing in my house?' He just kept saying he didn't do it," Smith said.
After the boy called 911, Smith held him at bay until the state police arrived.
The boy will be charged with attempted burglary and related offenses in Fayette County Juvenile Court, Trooper Christian Lieberum said. The boy was not identified because of his age.
"It was exciting," Smith said, who hoped the incident stops burglaries in her neighborhood. "I just hope I broke up the ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here." "

http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20079819&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

The story above states a good one...

"Smith said she had just come home from church when she noticed a door open at her home and an outer door broken.Lieberum said Smith immediately realized someone was in her home and decided to retrieve her handgun and went looking for the intruder."I saw him move by my keyboard near the wall but I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Smith said, noting that she started keeping the .22-caliber revolver by her bed after a burglary at a neighboring home several weeks ago.
Smith said she then found the boy hiding and confronted him."I said, 'What are you doing in my house?'" Smith said during an interview Monday with WPXI-TV, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, a news partner with the Herald-Standard. "He just kept saying he didn't do it." Smith ordered the teen to turn around and not to run and then had him pick up the telephone and dial 911.She then ordered the boy to give her the telephone after placing the call and she told dispatchers about the intruder.Officials from 911 stayed on the telephone with Smith as she had the boy lay facedown and spread-eagled on the floor. "

Although this is something that should be on "the worlds dumbest criminals". I wonder if "he was thinking about what he did".?

Some people do not ever learn. Some people do. People that get a gun pointed in their faces when trying to rob an 85 yr old lady tend to learn. Sometimes they learn the hard way like the fellas that charged Joe Horn, in Texas. Now this young man did not get shot, so I hope he did learn, and does not end up as the 2 Illegals in Texas.

Joe Horn is my hero.