{"id":3113,"date":"2008-08-20T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2008-08-20T09:29:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:29:42","slug":"armed-85-year-old-woman-makes-intruder-call-cops-yahoo-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"Gramma&#8217;s Got A Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 85 year old woman stops a young young burglar, makes him call 911, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/story\/\/ap\/20080819\/ap_on_fe_st\/911_at_gunpoint\">detains him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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. &#8220;I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun,&#8221; Leda Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith heard someone break into her home <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1219189234_0\" style=\"background: 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\">Sunday afternoon<\/span> and grabbed the .22-caliber revolver she had been keeping by her bed since a neighbor&#8217;s home was burglarized a few weeks ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos.\u00a0 And hey, it was a .22 revolver &#8211; even the Democrats will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3100\">&#8220;allow&#8221; you to have one<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I said &#8216;What are you doing in my house?&#8217; He just kept saying he didn&#8217;t do it,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>After the 17-year-old boy called 911, Smith kept holding the gun on him until <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1219189234_1\">state police<\/span> arrived at her home in <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1219189234_2\">Springhill<\/span> Township, about 45 miles south of <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1219189234_3\">Pittsburgh<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The boy will be charged with attempted burglary and related offenses in <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1219189234_4\">juvenile court<\/span>, Trooper Christian Lieberum said. He was not identified because of his age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was exciting,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;I just hope I broke up the (burglary) ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most people:\u00a0 &#8220;Yay, Granny!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DFLers:\u00a0 &#8220;Damn.\u00a0 Constituents off the street!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 85 year old woman stops a young young burglar, makes him call 911, detains him: 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. &#8220;I just walked right on past him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}