Posted on 01/18/2010 10:43:24 AM PST by Doogle
YOAKUM, Texas — With a serial rapist on the loose, Cassandra McGinty has developed a new routine when she arrives home: search room to room, a handgun or stun gun drawn.
The predator has been assaulting older women in central Texas over the past year, terrifying residents and frustrating investigators who have only a vague description of the suspect.
Pepper spray has been flying off the shelves in the towns where the attacks have occurred, and McGinty said her landlord in Marquez handed out stun guns as Christmas gifts. Nearly 200 miles away in Yoakum, elderly volunteers at the local museum have been locking its doors during business hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Two words: situational awareness and CCW. Well, more like four, but you get the point.
pepper spray my aaa...aunt fanny. .380 auto will work great. and the grip is a better fit for small elderly lady hands.
“A year into the case there is still no sketch of the suspect, only a vague description of a thin, young and dark-skinned man who is between 5 1/2- and 6-feet tall. Authorities wrongly arrested one man early in their investigation, and he has since sued over it.”
I just read not to use pepper spray but wasp spray because you get a stream that shoots from twenty feet away, where as pepper spray the perp has to be really close to work.
How horrible for the victims and the community that lives in fear. However, how condescending can you get? The women can’t use mace or guns? How could they even state such a thing in the article. That just emboldens the attacker.
your forgetting the source...AP
“Mela Walker, who has a ranch in nearby Cuero, organized a community meeting last spring after the Yoakum attacks and handed out pepper spray as a door prize for the nearly 300 people who showed up. “They’re freaked out,” Walker said. “These elderly women are buying Mace and not knowing how to use it. They talk about buying guns, and they don’t know how to use guns.”
It was a local rancher that said it. Of course the AP published it. Why doesn’t he start a class to show them how to use the mace and the guns instead of insinuating that they have no business with them.
AP’s story does not pass the smell test. I know lots of Ranch women & Ranch widows, don’t know 1 that cannot shoot a rifle.
My grandmother could well into her 90’s. She died at 98. Lived alone on farm for 18 years after my grandfather died.
These ladies are a hardy lot. Vermin like we are discussing will meet their match in their presence. And if they are caught by the “men folks” it will be much worse. Much worse, and eventually fatal.
Exactly, they make elderly women out to be imbeciles.
It'll blind them, but So What?
At least they did not use an EEVIL (gasp) GUN. (Which would be more humane, come to think of it...)
It’s a directed stream just like wasp spray.
WOULD-BE RAPE VICTIM TAKES HOLD OF THE SITUATION
Mike Royko
We’ve had the year of the woman and it is still going on, with females being elected to high office and named to Cabinet posts, and the power of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
But what about Curtescine Lloyd? You’ve never heard of her? Well, she is my choice as one of the most amazing and heroic women of recent years.
Lloyd is a middle-aged nurse who lives with an elderly aunt in the rural hamlet of Edwards, Miss., near Jackson. This is her story, most of it taken from a court transcript.
One night, Lloyd was awakened by a sound. She thought it was her aunt going to the bathroom. Suddenly a man stepped into Lloyd’s bedroom. Terrified, she sat up. He shoved her back down and said: “Bitch, you better not turn on a light. You holler, you’re dead. You better not breathe loud.”
He declared his intentions, which were to rob her and commit sexual assault. Of course, he phrased it far more luridly. Then he took off most of his clothing and jumped into bed.
Here is what happened next, according to court records:
Lloyd: “I got it. I grabbed it by my right hand. And when I grabbed it, I gave it a yank. And when I yanked it, I twisted all at the same time.”
(Need I explain what Lloyd meant by “it”? I think not.)
“He hit me with his right hand, a hard-blow beside the head, and when he hit me, I grabbed hold to his scrotum with my left hand and I was twisting it the opposite way. He started to yell and we fell to the floor and he hit me a couple of more licks, but they were light licks. He was weakening some then.”
With Lloyd still hanging on with both hands, squeezing and twisting the fellow’s pride and joy, they somehow struggled into the hallway.
“He was trying to get out, and I’m hanging onto him; and he was throwing me from one side of the hall wall to the other. I was afraid if I let him go, he was going to kill me.”
“So I was determined I was not going to turn it loose. So we were going down the hallway, falling from one side to the other, and we got into the living room and we both fell. He brought me down right in front of the couch and he leaned back against the couch, pleading with me.”
“He says, ‘You’ve got me, you’ve got me, please, you’ve got me.’ I said, ‘I know damn well I got you.’ He said, ‘Please, please, you’re killing me, you’re killing me... I can’t do nothing. Call the police, call the police.’
“I said, ‘Do you think I’m stupid enough to turn you loose and call the police?’ He said, ‘Well, what am I gonna do?’ I said, ‘You’re gonna get the hell out of my house.’ He said, ‘How can I get out of your house if you won’t let me go? How can I get out? I can’t get out.’
“I said, ‘Break out... You broke in, didn’t you?’ And I was still holding him.
“He said, ‘Oh, you’ve got me suffering, lady, you’ve got me suffering.’ I said, ‘Have you thought about how you were going to have me suffering?’ He said, ‘Well, I can’t do nothing now.’ I said, ‘Well, that’s fine.’”
Lloyd, still twisting and squeezing, dragged the lout to the front door, which had two locks, and told him to unbolt them.
It was a difficult process because he kept collapsing to the floor and she kept hauling him back to his feet.
When he finally unlocked the doors, he screamed: “I’m out, I’m out.”
But Lloyd, now confident that she had the upper hand (or should I say the lower hands?) and a full grasp of the situation, said she was going to take him to the end of the porch: “And when I turn you loose, I’m going to get my gun and I’m going to blow your (obscenity) brains out, you nasty, stinking, low-down dirty piece of (obscenity), you.”
“And when I did that, I gave it a twist, and I turned him loose. And he took a couple of steps and fell off the steps and he jumped up and grabbed his private parts and made a couple of jumps across the back of my aunt’s car.”
“And I ran into my aunt’s room, got her pistol from underneath the nightstand, ran back to the screen door, and I fired two shots down the hill the way I saw him go. And then I ran back in the house and dialed 911.”
The police came and examined the man’s clothing. Inside the trousers was written the name Dwight Coverson. They found Coverson, 29, at home, in considerable pain and wondering if he could ever be a daddy.
A one-day jury trial was held. As Coverson’s court-appointed lawyer put it: “The jury was out 10 minutes. Long enough for two of them to got to the bathroom.”
And the judge gave Coverson 25 years in prison.
The defense lawyer also said that Lloyd was recently on a local Mississippi TV news show and mentioned that she had been contacted about a possible movie of her story.
That is a film I would pay to see.
As for Coverson, if this column should find its way to his prison, I hope the guys in his cell block don’t giggle too much.
We saw the cutest puppy the other day. He was solid white except for a small black splotch of hair on his back just above his hip, and a black “mask” over his eyes that looked exactly like the mask in your signature picture.
He would have made the perfect pet for you. : )
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