Great-grandmother who shot robber says 'God was with me'

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

When an armed robber barged into a North Side motel room Wednesday night and ordered the six people there to the floor, he put a 70-year-old woman closer to her handgun.

The great-grandmother knelt between the beds, reached into her purse on the floor and pulled out her .357 Magnum pistol.

She fired one shot at the robber, who staggered from the room, collapsed in the parking lot and died.

"It's a wonder she didn't shoot us all," said her 51-year-old son, who was preparing to hand over his cash when he heard the gunshot. "She's the worst shot in the world.

"She said to me, 'God was with me tonight. You know I couldn't have done that myself.'"


http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/10/22/horse_shoot.html?sid=101




:popcorn:

[Orrex]

1. I wonder if God has a CCL

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

3. Unlike law abiding citizens He doesn't need one.

[Orrex]

9. Oh yeah? Well who made Him God?

Oh, wait a minute...

[Bluzmann57]

2. delete

Forget it.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. Okay.

[notadmblnd]

5. If god was really with her, the robber would not have picked her and her group to rob.

:shrug:

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

6. or maybe He knew she could deal with the robber.

[notadmblnd]

7. Was it a test

or just for God's amusement? And why does he need an elderly lady to work through?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

8. You'll have to ask her.

[PavePusher]

11. Or HIM. n/t

[lynne]

10. I notice it says the burglar was armed and had ordered 6 people to the floor -

- She potentially saved six lives, including her own. Whomever it was with her, I'm certainly glad they were there. If it was God, that's just fine with me.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

12. Well said.

[proteus_lives]

13. God, Luck, Fate whatever was with her was with her,

And that same force cut the robber loose.

[OttavaKarhu]

14. What amazed me about this story...

...was her son saying "she's the worst shot in the world."

That's pretty obviously false. Yet he clings to the idea despite the most pointed evidence.

And she attributes her action to SkyDood...instead of what apparently is her own extraordinary level of natural shooting talent under pressure.

Better just to make a helpless old lady joke (the son) and credit it to an imaginary friend. Yoiks.