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SC:Elderly woman awakens to find intruder, shoots at him
thetandd.com ^ | 1 October,2013 | Staff

Posted on 10/03/2013 7:45:10 AM PDT by marktwain

Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office

Deputies are checking Midlands hospitals for someone with a gunshot wound after a would-be burglar broke into an armed 85-year-old woman’s residence early Sunday.

The locked-and-loaded Kennerly Road woman said she was awakened by her dog barking at about 2:15 a.m. She said she grabbed her handgun and went to investigate. When she entered her dining room, she came face to face with an intruder, according to the incident report.

The woman’s first reaction was to yell at the intruder, “What are you doing in my house?” She said the man didn’t budge nor answer her inquiry. Her second reaction was to raise her handgun and fire a round at him.

That got a reaction from the intruder; he ran. The woman said the subject ran out of her back door and fled up a nearby dirt road.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; guncontrol; home; kennerly; sc; secondamendment
A gun makes an old woman a difficult target.
1 posted on 10/03/2013 7:45:10 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain
Deputies are checking Midlands hospitals for someone with a gunshot wound

Check the dirt roads first!

2 posted on 10/03/2013 7:48:54 AM PDT by HomeAtLast (The original Tea Party entailed a willingness to do without some tea.)
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To: marktwain

Good for her!


3 posted on 10/03/2013 7:52:06 AM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: marktwain

A woman can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many guns.


4 posted on 10/03/2013 7:54:41 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: HomeAtLast

At least we know he/she/it wasn’t on bath salts because she/he/it ran when the gunshot rang out.


5 posted on 10/03/2013 7:55:39 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: marktwain

Damn, girl! You missed!


6 posted on 10/03/2013 8:05:59 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: marktwain

Older women are not to be trifled with. :-)


7 posted on 10/03/2013 8:07:15 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (A pox on the House of Apple and the ios7 horse they rode in on.)
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To: upchuck

G-d bless SC.


8 posted on 10/03/2013 8:09:51 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: marktwain
Dump the handgun and use a shotgun, next time. When my mom was alive I had her keep my Benelli in her apt. Semi auto is easy to use and has a much reduced recoil. But my mom was a tough old bird anyway. Raised on a farm with 5 brothers, all hunters. She'd be a force to be reckoned with. As I suspect is the case with most grandmothers.
9 posted on 10/03/2013 8:22:33 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: marktwain

Statistically speaking, this is an anomaly.

People who keep old women in their homes are three times more likely to be injured by their own old woman than to injure an intruder.


10 posted on 10/03/2013 8:43:50 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: marktwain

I’m of mixed minds when it comes to “Tuco’s rule” in your home. It’s a big judgment call.

Probably the silliest time was when a big friend was visiting and I had the flu. He had been away to the mountains for four days, hunting, while wearing camouflaged fatigues and even face paint, with a group of other hunters. On the way back they stopped to render aid to a woman whose car had flipped off the road cliff and was upside down between two boulders.

While not severely injured, she was bleeding, upside down and hysterical, and it took their whole group to get her out of the car, and heft her up a hill to an ambulance.

In any event, in addition to the camouflaged fatigues and face paint, he was covered in blood.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I felt raunchy, and made the poor choice of sucking down a big bottle o’ Burgundy and four cans of malt liquor. Sitting on an easy chair feeling even raunchier while watching daytime TV in my bathrobe.

Well, he opens the door, and through bleary eyes I see what looks like a black NBA player wearing bloody camouflaged fatigues and carrying a hunting rifle. Rising from my chair, sick, drunk, unshaven and wearing a bathrobe, with a revolver in hand, I lurch into the kitchen to confront the intruder, blurting out, “Can I help you, sir?”

It took way too long for me to realize that this was my still adrenaline wired friend. “Hey! It’s me!” from him helped considerably.

Recognition came in the form of my trombone vomiting Burgundy-beer stomach upset all over his chest.

Not his best day. Or mine.


11 posted on 10/03/2013 8:50:44 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I believe that a sober life is essential for responsible gun owners.....especially if you have loved ones living under your roof.


12 posted on 10/03/2013 9:16:24 AM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: edwinland

Statistically speaking, this is an anomaly.

People who keep old women in their homes are three times more likely to be injured by their own old woman than to injure an intruder.

I resemble that remark and agree although I cannot confirm the actual stats.


13 posted on 10/03/2013 9:33:56 AM PDT by 56newblog (Registered Islamophobe)
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To: Fred911

Normally yes, however, at the time I had the flu, no loved ones living with me, I was not expecting him back, and most importantly, I made a serious effort to identify my target.

I am the furthest thing to being quick on the trigger, one of the reasons I generally prefer a knife in close quarters.


14 posted on 10/03/2013 10:53:36 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: marktwain

That is why they call a pistol the great equalizer.


15 posted on 10/03/2013 11:16:26 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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16 posted on 10/03/2013 2:35:26 PM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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You’re welcome, and no worries.


17 posted on 10/03/2013 5:04:28 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
I hate it when that happens.




Good story.
18 posted on 10/03/2013 9:23:20 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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