Posted by Susan
Bernie Garcia, 83, talks on the phone with one of her grandchildren the
day after three thugs tried to take her purse at Smith's gas station.
day after three thugs tried to take her purse at Smith's gas station.
Once again a senior citizen stands up and fights back!
Bernie Garcia, 83, was approached by a man at a gas station and he asked her for money. When she told 20-year-old Angelo Trujillo she had spent all her spare change on gas (these days we all have!), he tried to grab her purse. "But I had it wrapped around my wrist twice," Garcia said, and he was unable to pull it away.
They struggled for the purse and the great-grandmother sprayed him with gasoline. The attacker pulled her to the ground and dragged her until another man confronted him.
Trujillo took off, but a witness had gotten the license plate. Trujillo and two others were apprehended minutes later.
Bernie declined medical attention, but said she felt faint and went to bed when she got home.
Her son, a former firefighter, checked her out and found no broken bones. She had a big bruise on her hip and a few scrapes on her hands but otherwise, she's fine.
Bernie was quoted as saying,"My son said, `Why didn't you just give (the purse) up?"' Garcia said. "`Hell no,' I told him. That was my purse. I was fighting for what was mine."
While fighting back is not always the smartest thing to do (muggers might have any variety of weapons), I just love it when a would-be attacker thinks someone is helpless and an easy target, but the intended victim gets the best of them.
2 comments:
She looks like a real firecracker! Add her to the list of people I want answering the phone at 3 am.
She reminds me of my Maternal Grandmother. She kept a billy club in the bathroom, and a shotgun under the bed, "just in case". Fearsome woman, excellent grandmother :-)
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