85 Year Old Great Grandmother Holds Burglar At Gunpoint

Mrs. Leda Smith

State police said Leda Smith, an 85-year-old great grandmother, is credited with stopping a burglar she caught in her home Sunday afternoon.

The incident began around 3 p.m. when a 17-year-old boy broke into Mrs. Smith's home on Old Lake Lynn Road. Mrs. Smith noticed a door open at her home and an outer door broken when she arrived home from church.

Realizing there was someone in her home she decided to retrieve her handgun and then look for the intruder. On her way to get the firearm, she saw the intruder move by her keyboard near the wall but she continued to walk right on past him to the bedroom to get the gun.

Armed she located the hidden boy and at gunpoint she told him "dial 911 and don't attempt to throw the phone at me, or do anything bad or I'll just shoot you." Once she had informed the police of the intruder she then had him wait for the police while spread-eagled on the floor.

Mrs. Smith said she started keeping the .22-caliber revolver by her bed after a burglary at a neighboring home several weeks ago.

Soap Box Ravings says you have got to love Mrs. Smith. There are a lot more of these folks out there then the Liberals would like to admit. While I don't encourage going into a house if you believe the intruder is actually inside, what are the possibilities if that little SOB had broken in when Mrs. Smith was inside. People that break and enter like the feeling of breaking in, the excitement. Many of them commit sex offenses and many also injure or kill the person(s) in the house when they are discovered.

Col Jeff Cooper, USMC said" When attacked by a rabid dog, put your pistol in it's mouth and pull the trigger. What you have no pistol? Well then, I guess you will have to call 911."

Soap Box Ravings likes to remind people, including Liberals, when you dial 911, help is only minutes away. Well except for the riots in Los Angeles when the police determined it was to dangerous. At that time those that needed help had to wait for the Governor to activate the California National Guard (see the paragraph above again).