Hat tip to Lord of the Ring's Sam Gamgee...
Cheers!
Posted on 02/26/2009 8:40:39 PM PST by Gordon Greene
ELYRIA, Ohio – The 70-year-old wife of an Ohio judge said teens who tried to rob her made her so angry that she whacked one in the head with a sauce pan. Ellen Basinski said she was on the phone with her husband Tuesday when four boys pushed their way into her home in Elyria, west of Cleveland. Lorain County Judge David Basinski overheard the scuffle and raced home, while his wife grabbed her favorite pan to defend herself against the intruders rifling through her purse and cabinets. One of the teens told police he threw a bottle of whiskey at Basinski to distract her so another boy could flee. They ran from the house but were later caught and charged with aggravated burglary. The judge said his wife is upset that police took the pan as evidence.
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So that would make me mad too... I'm not sure why this is such a cool story to me. Maybe it's because the lady made sure she took care of what was hers, maybe it's because Whiskey was used as a mere distraction.
Maybe it's because with all the crappy news lately this is something I can cleanse my palate with...
Our elderly population has more balls than our younger population.
I get the impression it is not the first time she has wielded that pan in that household.
I hope she uses cast iron!
My favorite pan is made of cast iron, it would make quite a dent in someones head.
Kudos to this tough lady. Those teens are jerks for trying to rob her.
How'd you get that impression?
>Our elderly population has more balls than our younger population.
Agreed. Even more of a shame is that it was a woman who has more balls.
“I get the impression it is not the first time she has wielded that pan in that household.”
“How’d you get that impression?”
I think the kid got an impression too... brings to mind the scene in “Throw Mama From The Train” where Danny Devito smacked Billy Crystal in the face with an iron skillet... funny stuff!
On a related note: AG Holder announces federal sauce pan registration program, hints at ban of sauce pans of greater than 2 quart capacity.
And you thought the government was only after your guns!
“On a related note: AG Holder announces federal sauce pan registration program, hints at ban of sauce pans of greater than 2 quart capacity.”
And pressure cookers will be considered munitions, for military use only;)
Hat tip to Lord of the Ring's Sam Gamgee...
Cheers!
Sauce pan control...now!
Ban the sauce pan, man!
Granny’s “assault weapons PAN” on display.
Archaic artifact of a once free country.
“I get the impression it is not the first time she has wielded that pan in that household.”
LOL!!
When I first started working at 18 years old, my boss was 63 and a fine woman, a widow.
She told me the story about how her husband thought it proper to beat her when she disputed with him on a household issue. When he tried to hit her, she ran to the kitchen and started unloading dishware in his direction, literally forcing him to retreat through the back door. She then ran and locked the front door, effectively keeping him out of the house.
She told him he could only come back in if he promised never to try and hit her again. She said it took about 20 minutes for him to think it over (he was ethnically Russian, and beating one’s wife was a cherished tradition, she said) but he agreed and she unlocked the doors and they reared 5 children together and were married for 48 years.
And he kept his promise and she never threw another dish!!
You know, there are also Green pans and copper pots to consider in the present commodity-based economy. Wonder if any have hollow points? Is a double boiler a staging weapon? What’s a wok then (no, it’s not 7 days)? Or, a steamer?
Pressure cookers can be used as projectiles, I’ll say that much. When they explode, the ceiling gets dented.
If she had a gun, this story would have had a very happy ending.
“Our elderly population has more balls than our younger population.”
That’s how they got to be our elderly population. The Herd is continuously culled.
As she grabbed the pan, no doubt she told the youths, “How would you like a little pot?!?!”
Looks like that robbery panned out.
All I can say is, Don’t mess with Granny.
Sort of reminds me of Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies and how she would have reacted.
In England, the punks would be free & she would be in jail for 10 years. Be happy this is still America.
Reminds me of a story about my Grandmother and my uncle, God rest their souls.
My uncle had just came back on leave after Marine basic training and thought he was big and bad.
My Grandmother was at the stove getting ready to cook a meal. The cast iron skillet was on the burner.
My uncle started giving my Grandmother some grief about something, started, "sassing", her and WHAM.
She laid him out with a cast iron skillet to the head.
When asked about it later she told them, "He may be a Marine but he's still my son, and I don't take sass from my children".
It's what you take with your dog in the park.
My Wife just bought a cast iron skillet. I wouldn’t want to be the one who got hit in the noggin with that thing.
Ouch.
I wouldn't want to take a blow to the head from that.
First they came for the Teflon.....,
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