Nice one granny!!

[Gob]

An 82-year-old woman has described the moment she made a man regret breaking into her New York home after she fought back.



Willie Murphy says that around 11pm on Thursday, the man, 29, entered her house in Rochester despite her refusing to open the door and let him in when he pleaded with her call an ambulance.

Little did he know that Murphy is an award-winning bodybuilder and she described breaking a table over him, beating him with a broomstick and smothering him in shampoo after he forced entry to her property.

'I’m alone and I’m old, but guess what? I’m tough,' she warned in an interview after the incident.

Murphy is only 5 feet tall and weighs 105lbs, according to the Today show, but she can deadlift 225 pounds.

She had already called police but picked up the nearest things to her to keep the assailant down until cops arrived to detain the man who tried to persuade her to let him inside because he was sick.

'I hear a loud noise,' she told Fox News. 'I'm thinking, what the heck was that? The young man is in my home. He broke the door. 'I picked up the table, and I went to work on him. The table broke.

'And when he's down. I’m jumping on him. I grabbed the shampoo. Guess what? He’s still on the ground. In his face, all of it, the whole thing. I got the broom. He’s pulling the broom. I’m hitting him with the broom.'

Murphy says the man was trying to make his way out of the property after she fought back and she even tried to help move him along but she struggled with his dead weight.

But soon after police arrived at her home.

'He picked the wrong house to break into,' Murphy said.

Murphy works out at the local Maplewood YMCA and received a hero's welcome when she returned to the gym.

She said even emergency responders wanted to take selfies with her after the incident.

If this had happened in the UK she'd probably have been arrested for denying him his human rights...

[Lord Jim]

Way to go Willie!

[Long Run]

Dude was prescient -- he needed that ambulance.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Go, Gogo!

[Big RR]

It used to be a nice town before the old ladies came here...

[RayThom]

Shampoo... a broom?

The cops said the perp was clean when they arrived.

[ex-khobar Andy]

It used to be a nice town before the old ladies came here...

I moved to Buffalo NY in 1984. Rochester wasn't a nice town then and I don't think it has improved.

[RayThom]

... I moved to Buffalo NY in 1984. Rochester wasn't a nice town then and I don't think it has improved.

Buffalo? Yes, it's a big city but do you happen to know Bob Kull, DDS? He's an old friend of the family -- and surely retired by now.

[Big RR]

It used to be a nice town before the old ladies came here...

I moved to Buffalo NY in 1984. Rochester wasn't a nice town then and I don't think it has improved.

I spent a week there about 10-12 years ago negotiating a deal with Xerox and it wasn't that bad; it beat Newark or Paterson, NJ hands down. But, I can't say I loved the snow.

[ex-khobar Andy]

It used to be a nice town before the old ladies came here...

I moved to Buffalo NY in 1984. Rochester wasn't a nice town then and I don't think it has improved.

I spent a week there about 10-12 years ago negotiating a deal with Xerox and it wasn't that bad; it beat Newark or Paterson, NJ hands down. But, I can't say I loved the snow.

I took a look at Rochester's Wiki page and found this:

In 2007, the 25th edition of the Places Rated Almanac rated Rochester the "most livable city" among 379 U.S. metropolitan areas.[7] In 2010 Forbes rated Rochester the third-best place to raise a family in the United States.[8] In 2012 Kiplinger rated Rochester the fifth-best city in the United States for families, citing low cost of living, top public schools, and a low unemployment rate.[9]

2006 was the last time I was in Rochester (daughter won a NYS music prize and the awards were in Rochester) so I have to revise my opinion. Every time I had to visit - to go see a client or whatever - I found it a dreary place even in summer. (We Buffalonians had no complaints about their winters.) So either it has improved enormously or I was wrong. Of course that last is never a possibility which I acknowledge so you have to congratulate the mayor and the city council.

Xerox, BTW, was one of our customers. Years ago there was an EPA-mandated lab test called Extraction Procedure Toxicity (EP Tox) which was a test of waste materials to see if they gave off water soluble toxins which - if over certain levels - meant that the waste had to be handled separately and disposed so that it would't leach nasty stuff (I'm using the technical term here) to streams, rivers, and groundwater. We required 100 grams of representative sample to conduct the test. With a typical manufacturing process the waste is pretty homogenous so you just dip into the sample bottle and take out 100 grams. Sometimes you have to do a bit of mechanical reduction to get small pieces.

One day Xerox brought us a copier. "We want an EP Tox on that." The copier was about the size of a typical office desk and weighed 250 lb or thereabouts. We had to reduce this copier to get 100 grams of representative sample which had to pass through a 1 cm sieve. We had this thing out in the parking lot on a big tarp with a couple of 16 pound sledges and a Sawzall. It took us a few days and everyone, everyone had a turn at it. At the end of the day it was a very satisfying way to spend 20 minutes. 50 years in the lab business and it's one of the things I remember with great fondness.

[Big RR]

Taking a sledge hammer to a copier was something I often wished I could do, especially when it would jam and I'd get a "call key operator" message. You lived that dream.

[RayThom]

I hope you guys didn't scratch the photo-receptor surface on the print drum.