Posted on 11/24/2019 11:33:23 AM PST by Hojczyk
Willie Murphy, who attends the Maplewood YMCA in Rochester, N.Y., on a daily basis, was getting ready for bed around 11:00 p.m. when a man started banging on the door asking for an ambulance, while declaring "I'm sick, I'm sick." “I hear a loud noise,” she told WHAM-TV. “I’m thinking, what the heck was that?
The young man is in my home. He broke the door.” The award-winning bodybuilder told the outlet she hid under the cover of night -- picking up the nearest object -- as the thief crept through her home. “I picked up the table, and I went to work on him,” said Murphy, who can deadlift 225 pounds.
‘The table broke.” “And when he’s down,” she added, “I’m jumping on him.” After the table drop,
Murphy grabbed a nearby bottle of shampoo and went to town. “I grabbed the shampoo,” she told WHAM-TV. “Guess what? He’s still on the ground. In his face, all of it, the whole thing.”
Shen then grabbed a nearby broom and swept the floor with the unknown suspect. “I got the broom,” she said. “He’s pulling the broom. I’m hitting him with the broom.”
When officers arrived, Murphy says the first responders wanted to take selfies with her and she even received a hero's welcome when returning to her local YMCA.
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Never tangle with an old lady. There’s a moral here somewhere about picking on someone more your size.
Not many men could dead life 225 pounds..
She is my hero for today!!!!!
Very proud of this woman!
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An 82 year old woman, that takes a punk that breaks into her home and beats him senseless is my hero.
I am not as strong {or as old} as she is, so I'd have shot and kilt the bastard.
Different strokes for different folks.
Nope.
Most men can’t even bench their own weight.
My CC instructor used me (69 yr. old female) to demonstrate that I could start shooting at an unarmed man 10 plus feet away just because he was yelling at me.
That’s fantastic and definitely a feel-good, happy ending story. However, 82 year old bodybuilders are a rarity - hence the newsworthiness of this story. For the average 82 year old woman, or heck, average non-body builder, non-krav maga / judo / boxing / whatever woman they are going to need some other advantage to protect themselves. If only there were a simple, relatively inexpensive, effective means for people to defend themselves against physically imposing or multiple attackers. Something accessible to the average person, not requiring years of study and daily practice/training. You could call such an item a great equalizer...
Good for her. She must have the same trainer as RBG.
After breaking Into your home you don’t need to wait for the yell.
Go girl!!!
Lordy look at the guns on her!
May it happen more often.
This cool chick....simply “ROCKS”....May Lord, God, Almighty...bless her magnificent heart & soul...FOREVER!!! Bravo...young lady!!!
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