Its not nice to make Granny MAD

[Carolynn]

Penny or Zoe, do you know if this is true?

The Rambo Granny of 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 cell mate 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 car-jacked 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 sickos', tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighbourhood 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 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.

[KimberlyS]

Give them hell Granny. We need a few more of her.

[Lisbeth]

Can you say "Bernice Geotz"

Lisbeth

[DonnaT]

Not condoning it mind you, but great guns granny.

[Connie]

Penny or Zoe, do you know if this is true?

The Rambo Granny of Melbourne, Australia

Well Caroline, I'm neither of them but checking on Snopes.com, it is not a true story.

Connie

[Carolynn]

<Sigh!!!> More frustrated internet wish fulfillment. There are so many of these, and if the story is good it does get passed on, like, forever.

Ahhh, well T'would have been kinda nice.

Thanks Connie.
Love, Carolynn

[Tekla]

Only the best shots can shoot to wing. Any gun instructor will tell you that if you are going to shoot, shoot to kill.

[KimberlyS]

True or not, I vote for this as a new punishment. Convicted rapists are tied spread eagle. The victim, or person chosen by them gets to pull the trigger of a gun or a guillotine to remove the rapists privates.

It may make a few people think before they do.

[Tekla]

Tragic that the Constitution deal gets in the way with its provision about "cruel and unusual punishment." Any society that would do that is little better than the rapist.

[DonnaT]

True or not, I vote for this as a new punishment. Convicted rapists are tied spread eagle. The victim, or person chosen by them gets to pull the trigger of a gun or a guillotine to remove the rapists privates.

I wouldn't argue against that, except for the fact that some have been wrongly convicted.

Even with DNA, some have been falsely accused before being convicted.