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Posted: 9/16/2002 11:09:58 AM EDT
[b][brown]The crooks were surprised this nice lady did not turn in all weapons when
gun control was declared in Australia.... were they surprised!!!

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off
when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the
unsuspecting ex-cons down - - and shot off their testicles.

The old lady spent a week hunting those men down -- and when she found them,
she took revenge on them in her own special way,- said Melbourne police
investigator Evan Delp. Then she took a taxi to the nearest police
station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could
be: 'Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God.'

Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis
and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the
hotel room where he and former prison cellmate Stanley Thomas, 29, were
holed up. The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas' testicles to kingdom come,
but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said. The one guy,
Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said he won't be
using it the way he used to, Detective Delp told reporters. Both men are
still in pretty bad shape, but I think they're just happy to be alive after
what they've been through.

The Rambo Granny swung into action after her granddaughter Debbie was
carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a
section of town bordering on skid row. "When I saw the look on my Debbie's
face that night in the hospital, I decided I was going to go out and get
those bastards myself 'cause I figured the Law would go easy on
them, "recalled the retired library worker. "And I wasn't scared of them,
either -- because I've got me a gun and I've been shootin' all my life. And
I wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one."

So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's description
of the sicko's, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the
wino-infested neighborhood where the crime took place till she spotted the
ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel. I know it was them the
minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of 'em anyway and took it back to
Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them, the oldster recalled.

So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door --
and the minute the big one, Furth, opened the door, I shot 'em right square
between the legs, right where it would really hurt 'em most, you know. Then
I went in and shot the other one as he backed up pleading to me to spare
him. Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in.

Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the
vigilante granny. What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is
difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison, Det. Delp said,
especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for
sainthood and a medal.[/b][/brown]

[i][red]WAY TO GO GRANNY![/i][/red]

Clipper
Link Posted: 9/16/2002 11:12:54 AM EDT
[#1]
Funny, but it's still an urban legend.
Link Posted: 9/16/2002 11:15:38 AM EDT
[#2]
Do you have a link?
Link Posted: 9/16/2002 11:15:47 AM EDT
[#3]
Link Posted: 9/16/2002 11:16:49 AM EDT
[#4]
An urban legend.  Go to TruthOrFiction.com and search for "Granny".
Link Posted: 9/16/2002 11:20:00 AM EDT
[#5]
If you get something in e-mail or elsewhere that sounds too good to be true, or so funny that you can't believe you didn't hear about it, guess what.....it's probably not true.  Snopes is another good place to get info on urban legends. [url]www.snopes.com[/url].  I think I send links from their to two or three people a week.  [:(]
Link Posted: 9/16/2002 11:24:19 AM EDT
[#6]
Quoted:
Funny, but it's still an urban legend.
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P.E. is right - see:

[b][blue][URL=http://www.snopes.com/crime/justice/grambo.htm]Grambo Debunked[/URL]  [b][/blue]

Was sent to me by a usually careful EU ex-Customs Officer........

Sorry!

Clipper
Link Posted: 9/16/2002 11:25:00 AM EDT
[#7]
Link Posted: 9/16/2002 11:26:08 AM EDT
[#8]
Origins:   Sorry, but this February 2000 e-mail is a fanciful tale of imagined revenge and nothing more -- searches of Australian news archives fail to turn up news stories featuring any of the people named in the account, reports about the shootings of the rapists, or the rape that supposedly sparked the retribution. Those living in the area also fail to recall seeing anything about this on the nightly news.

Moreover, in March 2000, an Australian newspaper referred to the already Internet-speeded story as "a good urban myth."

Regrettably, Grambo exists only in our hearts and inboxes. We cherish her anyway.

But really, could anyone honestly swallow a tale of vigilante justice in which the police spokesman is characterized as "admiring" of someone who turned a firearm on two others? As righteous as a cause might be, the moment a crime victim or one of her sympathizers takes matters into her own hands, that person becomes a criminal engaged in illegal activity. Police would not be "baffled" about what to do with such a person -- an arrest would be made and charges laid.

Those familiar with Australian forms of speech have pointed out no one from that country would refer to another as a bum (as the supposed police investigator did when he said "...hunting those bums down"). A "bum" Down Under is the body part one sits upon -- in that dialect, the term does not enjoy the diversity of meaning it does in North American slang.

Moreover, the various phrasings attributed to Ava Estelle would never drop from the lips of an Australian (unless she'd spent her life chained to a rock in the Ozarks).

Okay, so we can't believe the story. We still want to, though.

Fake or real, Grambo is perceived as a hero. In a world populated by bad guys seemingly always getting away with one horrible act after another, we need to believe that at least someone somewhere stood up to the wrongs, took matters into her own hands, and dealt out some much-needed justice, even if it was of the street variety. Popular culture is filled with instances of the wronged being denied protection by the authorities and having to right the world on their own because that theme plays into both what we hold as true deep in our hearts (criminals escape justice through legal loopholes) and what we wish for (justice being meted out to these miscreants anyway).

It's no accident that this work of fiction features two adult male rapists (which one immediately pictures as strong, overpowering creeps), a teenage girl victim, and a frail little old lady of 81 years (a retired library worker, at that). The contrast makes for a more thrilling tale, and the cheers over David toppling Goliath become louder and more enthusiastic.

Barbara "castigation by castration" Mikkelson
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