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Post by sengaeriel on Feb 25, 2009 2:44:28 GMT -5
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Post by Lt. Cmdr. Five of Seven on Mar 9, 2009 23:08:59 GMT -5
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 their testicles off!
"The old lady spent a week hunting those bums down — and when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way," said admiring 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 seedy 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 August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped 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 police 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' it all my life."
So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's description of the sickos' car, 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 knew 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 ornery 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 down to the police station and turned myself in."
Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out how to deal with the vigilante granny. "What she did was wrong, but you can't really throw an 81-year-old woman in prison." Det. Delp said, "especially when all 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for sainthood."
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Post by Lt. Cmdr. Wyatt "Logan" Evans on Mar 10, 2009 7:54:52 GMT -5
I'll say Fact.
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Post by Lt. Cmdr. Mallory Grayland on Mar 11, 2009 7:08:50 GMT -5
I'll say Fiction
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Post by Lt. Cmdr. Five of Seven on Mar 12, 2009 7:55:26 GMT -5
Sorry, Logan, but Mallory is correct. Below is the truth behind the account.
***************************************************************************** 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 people from that country would not refer to someone 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. *****************************************************************************
So, Mallory, you have the honor of posting the next Fact or Fiction story.
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Post by Lt. Cmdr. Mallory Grayland on Mar 23, 2009 9:57:15 GMT -5
In Springfield NJ, a 18 year old girl named Amy Dayspring was having lunch with her friends in school one day when one of them make a comment on the picture of the missing child on the side of his Milk carton, her best friend Amber started reading the file, " Jaime Summers, kidnapped at age 3, missing from a mall in NY. " Amy looks at the picture and gasp as she sees herself at age 3, she gasps out loud, " OH MY GOSH,THAT'S ME !!! " Her friends look at her and laugh, for weeks she continues to investigate herself and is scared that her mom and dad kidnapped her, so she talks to her boyfriend Reed and they drive to the home of the Summers and sit across the road of their house and watched as the Summers children came home and she saw herself in them.
So when she gets home, she talks to her mom and dad and they tell her how their daughter Sue at the age of 17 ran away and joined a cult, and how 15 years age she showed up at their door and had a little 3 year old girl with her who she said was her daughter, after staying there a few days, Sue just disappeared and left Amy there, so they decided to rise her themselves. So after they talked to Reed's sister who was a lawyer, they talked to the Summers and now Amy has 2 families.
Fact or Fiction ?
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Post by Lt. Cmdr. Five of Seven on Mar 24, 2009 3:36:32 GMT -5
The story is Fact.
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Post by Lt. Cmdr. Wyatt "Logan" Evans on Mar 24, 2009 23:25:33 GMT -5
All though this sounds like it may be true, I'll say Fiction.
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Post by Lt. Cmdr. Mallory Grayland on Mar 26, 2009 12:04:20 GMT -5
Sorry Six, but it's FICTION, I made this story up based on my favoirte book by Caroline B. Cooney, " The Face on the milk carton " Read it, it's a heart touching story. So George, it looks like it's your turn, SO MAKE IT A GOOD ONE.
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