Posted on 09/01/2010 10:43:29 AM PDT by marktwain
DECATUR, Ala. - A pistol-packing grandmother in Decatur hopes intruders will think twice before messing with her again.
Police say 69-year-old Ethel Jones shot 18-year-old Michael O'Neal Bynum in the abdomen when she said she found him inside her bedroom. Bynum lived less than 200 yards from Jones, but she said she didn't know him.
"I hope this will make people have second thoughts before they break into a home in our neighborhood and stop some of the crime we've had around here," she told The Decatur Daily.
Jones said she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to her. She said she was going to the bathroom shortly before 3 a.m. Monday when she thought she heard someone at her back door and then her front door. She grabbed her gun as a precaution and came out of the bathroom to find someone in her bedroom with a pen light.
"I shot three times, and he ran away bleeding," she said.
Then she called 911.
Police said Bynum returned to his residence and went by private vehicle to Decatur General Hospital. Then he was transferred to Huntsville Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Police says Bynum, who was on probation for a burglary conviction, faces a charge of second-degree burglary. Officers said it appears he got into the home by removing a window air conditioner from a back window.
Jones, who's retired after 27 years as an auditor with Copeland Corp., said she's had a gun for years.
"I'm glad I had it," she said. "I don't know what he would have done when he didn't find what he was looking for. He might have killed me. You can't ever tell what people might do these days."
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Eat lead, sonny!
Good shooting, Granny !
Nothing as painful as being shot in the bedroom. :)
Good for her.
I wonder if this will learn him his lesson, since his stint in the clink didn’t do the job?
Yep. I hear them bedroom wounds tend to bleed a lot.
It takes 68 muscles to frown and 6 to smile. She must have been tired at 3am cause it only takes 2 to pull a trigger.
If each of us just killed one criminal, we’d have a better country. ( Of course the security welfare bureaucracy would be stressed out, with out product for the arrest and release tread mill. Lawyers, defense and prosecution, would suffer, judges, bailiffs, prison guards would be laid off, but it’s a small price to pay for safe homes, unmolested children and women. )
I think it would be well advised for everyone to be ready for such an event. If this does come to pass, I wonder how long before the Anti-Gun crowd changes its tune. Or would they just dig in further and want more gun laws?
yeah, but did she have a premition slip to ‘pack’ her pistol ??? stoopit journo-list...
Reminds me of Curtisene Lloyd.
Little Bitty Sunday School Teacher Thwarts Would-Be Rapist (Must Read!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2436421/posts
“It occurs to me that criminals, although relatively stupid, will eventually learn. What they will likely learn though is they should be armed and shoot first.”
That is why we have society and government. The justice system puts the odds against the criminal. There are way more of us than them. As long as that is the case it doesn’t happen they way you suggest.
But, at a certain “tipping point” the number of criminals overwhelm the justice system and everything breaks down. There are a number of inner cities with this problem.
Outstanding!
I heard of a guy once who was shot in the vestibule.
Ouch! Can he still father children?
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