85 year old gun toting granny

POINT MARION, Pa. - An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.


Smith heard someone break into her home Sunday afternoon and grabbed the .22-caliber revolver she had been keeping by her bed since a neighbor's home was burglarized a few weeks ago.

"I said 'What are you doing in my house?' He just kept saying he didn't do it," Smith said.

After the 17-year-old boy called 911, Smith kept holding the gun on him until state police arrived at her home in Springhill Township, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh.

The boy will be charged with attempted burglary and related offenses in juvenile court, Trooper Christian Lieberum said. He was not identified because of his age.

"It was exciting," Smith said. "I just hope I broke up the (burglary) ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here."

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I remember when I was living in an apartment, oh but it was a SECURITY BUILDING, and I came home, left my front door open, screen closed, went in the bedroom to change to my swimsuit and while I was NAKED heard my screen door open and shut. I knew it was too early for my husband to be home.  I quickly put my swimsuit on and snuck out to the living room and saw my NEIGHBOR over in my house across the lving room sneaking around .  He had already given me the creeps.   When I asked him (in Spanish, since he spoke no english), what he was doing in my house, he said he wasn't there.....  No estoy aqui.......  hello? I called him a liar and then the idiot had the nerve to put his hands on my shoulders.  BIG MISTAKE.  Slapped his face, kicked him you know where with my knee, he ran out screaming and I kicked his butt as he ran down the stairs.

It was amazing to me that he thought he could say he wasn't there .......  he and his wife (who spoke no spanish and this man spoke no english) were evicted.