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Women use rum to disarm intruder
AP wire
| 10/30/03
| AP
Posted on 10/30/2003 8:47:21 PM PST by hemogoblin
TAMPA Two women in the their 60s say they used kindness, food and rum to subdue a shotgun-wielding man who broke into their house.
Police eventually came and arrested a 52-year-old man after he became groggy from the liquor and passed out.
Cathy Ord and Rose Bucher said they tried to make friends with the man after he burst in through a kitchen window toting a sawed-off shotgun Tuesday night. They made him a ham sandwich, gave him a bottle of rum and suggested he take a shower.
We just treated him with kindness, said Bucher, 63. The intruder didnt say what he wanted, and the women said they suspected he had committed a crime somewhere and needed a safe place to stay.
It was so surreal, said Ord, 60. She offered him cash and the keys to her Cadillac, but he didnt leave, she said.
He ordered the women to turn off the lights and to whisper when talking. He sat for a long time chatting with the shotgun in his hands.
He said he wouldnt harm us unless we did something smart, Bucher said. The women asked, in a whisper, whether he was hungry. He said yes. They made him a sandwich and a gave him a bottle of rum, and encouraged him to shower and shave so he could sort of be disguised in his getaway, Ord said.
He called and talked to his girlfriend, the women said, and then, shortly after 3 a.m., he asked whether they would call him a cab.
By the time the cab arrived, he was unconscious. The cab driver called 911, and within minutes more than a dozen sheriffs deputies stormed the house.
Alfred Joseph Sweet was in jail Thursday without bail, charged with armed home invasion and false imprisonment. Attorney information was unavailable.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: goldengirls; invasion; rum; selfdefense; tampa
I don't see where this has been posted yet.
To: hemogoblin
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posted on
10/30/2003 8:49:33 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: mhking
These are cryin' for a "just da*m" ping list.
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posted on
10/30/2003 8:52:31 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Paleo Conservative
yeah, well, the head was inaccurate. it was rum that did it and rum I searched for.
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posted on
10/30/2003 8:52:53 PM PST
by
hemogoblin
(The few, the proud, the 537.)
To: hemogoblin
Aw, ain't that sweet of the widdle old ladies.
To: hemogoblin; Tumbleweed_Connection; KarlInOhio
"yeah, well, the head was inaccurate. it was rum that did it and rum I searched for."
Fla. Women Disarm Intruder With Sandwich The rum was a little helpful too.
That's what one of the posters on the original thread said.
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posted on
10/30/2003 8:59:21 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: hemogoblin
They should have used eldeberry wine, like the two old sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace."
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posted on
10/30/2003 9:01:35 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("Bush reminds me of Churchill...." -- Sen. Zell Miller, D-Georgia)
To: hemogoblin; stand watie
Suthr'n hospitality can be quite disarming.
To: hemogoblin
A bit like the story out of Philly wherein teenage girls grew tired of being flashed by some creep on the way to school - when he showed up today two of them started chasing him, at which point he took off running only to be stopped and detained by a motorist who saw what was going on - file under "be careful what you wish for"......
Comment #10 Removed by Moderator
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Women use rum to disarm intruder
"It's elderberry wine...."
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posted on
10/30/2003 11:58:35 PM PST
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: hemogoblin
When rum is outlawed, only outlaws will have rum.
Have rum will travel?
How about Rumsmoke?
To: hemogoblin
Anyone want to take bets that he gets a lawyer and sues them for getting him drunk?
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posted on
10/31/2003 4:25:17 AM PST
by
raybbr
To: raybbr
"Here's mud in your eye."
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posted on
10/31/2003 4:45:48 AM PST
by
battlegearboat
(Tagline Surplus Sales - Everything Must Go!)
To: japaneseghost
so true!
SBs rock.
free dixie,sw
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posted on
10/31/2003 2:12:04 PM PST
by
stand watie
(Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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