[Deepblue]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1302793

Buxton, a cartoonist and an artist, had already gone to bed for the night. But at 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday, she got up to let one of her puppies outside. She took her gun with her in case a coyote tried to attack her dog in the yard.

On her way downstairs, Buxton noticed that her granddaughter, Mandy Davis, was awake because she had heard a noise like breaking glass. Buxton walked out on her back porch and let her dog out, who began sniffing two big muddy footprints on the porch — a red flag, since they hadn't any rain in about six weeks.

Then Buxton and Davis noticed other odd things: the door to a backroom was ajar allowing the family cats to escape and other items in the room were in disarray. They discussed calling the police, but instead decided to methodically check the house on their own — with a spotlight and her gun in hand.

After checking the entire house, they realized the only place they hadn't checked was the coat closet — and there was Lessner.

"This big, 6-foot-1, really big, buff man jumped out," Buxton said.

As Buxton dealt with the intruder, Davis called 911 to get help.

Lessner was on the run from police who were trying to ticket him for speeding in a stolen car earlier that night.

Buxton ordered Lessner to "get down" but he refused. She fired one warning shot into the air and then she shot him in the leg. But Lessner still managed to run out the front door.

Police apprehended him near Buxton's home.

I'm glad she exercised judgement and shot the guy in the leg rather than kill him, but she must have damn good aim. She also apparently knows ammunition considering that she was loaded with hollowpoints.

You can actually listen to the 911 call if you find it. She does a whole bunch of yelling and cursing.

[Charismatic]

Heh. A armed granny. Scary.

[pyro-manic]

Isn't hollowpoint ammunition banned by the Geneva Convention??

[karajorma]

Bah. Only wimps need guns. This granny dealt with two burglars with only her bare hands.

It all began when Soja Popova, opened the door to her apartment in Klaipeda, Lithuania, last Saturday, and was shoved to the ground by two young men.

The robbery had seemed like a no-brainer. They had done their homework and had it all figured out. After all, what could a frail 93-year old grandmother, all alone in her apartment, do against two strapping young men if they decided to break in? What could possibly go wrong? That's exactly what two would-be-robbers must have been thinking when they knocked on pensioner, Soja Popova's apartment door in Lithuania last weekend.

But Miss Popova, from Klaipeda, was not quite as frail as she looked however, and shocked the two young men by fighting back fiercely and grabbing one of them by the testicles. The plucky pensioner, who says she has developed a "grip like iron" due to her many years of milking goats, held on tightly until police arrived on the scene to rescue the whimpering man.

She told police: "He started screaming like an animal and his friend was trying to pull him free, but I have a grip like iron."

The man's screams of agony and his friend's shouts for the woman to let go alerted neighbors, who called police. When officers arrived a few minutes later Miss Popova, who still had the man's wedding tackle tightly in her grip, finally released her prey so police could take the injured man to hospital and his accomplice off to jail.

A police spokesman said: "They would not have got far, one of them could hardly walk and seemed pleased when he saw the police car".

[Nuclear1]

OUCH!

Gotta give credit to us Baltics...

[FireCrack]

Isn't hollowpoint ammunition banned by the Geneva Convention??

The geneva convention applies to war...

[NGTM-1R]

Isn't hollowpoint ammunition banned by the Geneva Convention??

Hague actually, and only for military use in open combat.

[Deepblue]

There's actually a hollowpoint sitting around my house right now. It was for a forensics class assignment.

[redmenace]

In other news, Lessner is planning to sue Buxton.

[Deepblue]

The granny is perfectly within her rights on her property.

If he didn't want to get shot you should have found somewhere else to find a snack, and not compounded it by jumping for the gun.

[Setekh]

Those are some awesome grannies. I hope I can defend my home nearly as well as one of them if I get burgled.

[Kosh]

Karajorma's story makes me wonder how the goats felt when she milked them..........

[Nuclear1]

In other news, Lessner is planning to sue Buxton.

My sarcasm detector's not quite working right now. If you're serious, then he can frankly bite it. Seriously. What do you ****ing expect when you rob a house?

[achtung]

My great aunt nearly killed a robber once.  But fortunately for the robber her husband had unloaded the pistol to keep from doing just that.  He got away but he never came back

[Grey Wolf]

In other news, Lessner is planning to sue Buxton.

My sarcasm detector's not quite working right now. If you're serious, then he can frankly bite it. Seriously. What do you ****ing expect when you rob a house?

I believe an incompetent thief won a case where he was trapped in the garage a year or so back, so you can't be sure.

[Nuclear1]

In other news, Lessner is planning to sue Buxton.

My sarcasm detector's not quite working right now. If you're serious, then he can frankly bite it. Seriously. What do you ****ing expect when you rob a house?

I believe an incompetent thief won a case where he was trapped in the garage a year or so back, so you can't be sure.

I know. That's what really pisses me off about the whole thing though. American judges need to be more like European judges: these kinds of cases honestly just need to be thrown off. A man gets shot in the leg for robbing a house. Any judge or court that hears a case where the thief sues the owner doesn't need to be involved in the judicial system.

[Kie99]

In other news, Lessner is planning to sue Buxton.

My sarcasm detector's not quite working right now. If you're serious, then he can frankly bite it. Seriously. What do you ****ing expect when you rob a house?

I believe an incompetent thief won a case where he was trapped in the garage a year or so back, so you can't be sure.

I know. That's what really pisses me off about the whole thing though. American judges need to be more like European judges: these kinds of cases honestly just need to be thrown off. A man gets shot in the leg for robbing a house. Any judge or court that hears a case where the thief sues the owner doesn't need to be involved in the judicial system.

Those quotes are getting really small.

Remind me never to rob an old people's home.

[achtung]

In other news, Lessner is planning to sue Buxton.

My sarcasm detector's not quite working right now. If you're serious, then he can frankly bite it. Seriously. What do you ****ing expect when you rob a house?

I believe an incompetent thief won a case where he was trapped in the garage a year or so back, so you can't be sure.

I know. That's what really pisses me off about the whole thing though. American judges need to be more like European judges: these kinds of cases honestly just need to be thrown off. A man gets shot in the leg for robbing a house. Any judge or court that hears a case where the thief sues the owner doesn't need to be involved in the judicial system.

Those quotes are getting really small.

Remind me never to rob an old people's home.

I wonder how far it can go?

[redmenace]

In other news, Lessner is planning to sue Buxton.

My sarcasm detector's not quite working right now. If you're serious, then he can frankly bite it. Seriously. What do you ****ing expect when you rob a house?

I think she was right to have shot the burgler. Unfortunatly, he can sue her for shooting him, retarded as it is its true. I don't really support this kind of nonsense.

[Kie99]

In other news, Lessner is planning to sue Buxton.

My sarcasm detector's not quite working right now. If you're serious, then he can frankly bite it. Seriously. What do you ****ing expect when you rob a house?

I believe an incompetent thief won a case where he was trapped in the garage a year or so back, so you can't be sure.

I know. That's what really pisses me off about the whole thing though. American judges need to be more like European judges: these kinds of cases honestly just need to be thrown off. A man gets shot in the leg for robbing a house. Any judge or court that hears a case where the thief sues the owner doesn't need to be involved in the judicial system.

Those quotes are getting really small.

Remind me never to rob an old people's home.

I wonder how far it can go?

I wish Da te$t Forum! ph43r! hadn't dissapeared.