BS: australian granny

Subject: BS: australian granny
From: red_clay
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 08:02 PM

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 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 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 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 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.

            God Bless her!!!

            DEPORT HER TO AMERICA -- WE NEED HER!!!

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 08:13 PM

I seem to have read this story previously, but the lady concerned wasn't in Australia. Of course it might have happened a second time, but...

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Amergin
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 08:31 PM

We all know that if its on the interent it's true....

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Jeri
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 08:57 PM

Exactly the same as the story at truthorfiction.com. (It's fiction)

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 09:13 PM

But, we can wish it were true, can't we?

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 09:22 PM

from reading it, the language and style is not australian, its all being written in a different (american style) "lingo".

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: artbrooks
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 10:38 PM

Snopes also says its a fake.

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 02:54 AM

Nice to read but, alas! not true, was my first thought, and as it is shown down the thread I was right.
More about Contemporary Legends and Their Literary Origins by Prof. Dr. Rolf Brednich, ethnologist, professional folklorist, and former custos in the German Folk Song Archive.

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 05:09 AM

Tell you what though, for an 81 yr old, she was a bloody good shot to have hit the 'bull' both times.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 05:25 AM

In real life she'd probably have aimed a bit high, and then it would have turned out she'd shot the wrong boys and killed them. Oh what fun.

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 09:01 AM

someone posted this on Mudcat last year

I still wonder why the writer decided to say it happened in Oz. Maybe cos Australia is soooo far away & things happen in far-away places that never happen here (wherever here is).

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 01:55 PM

Australia is only far away from places that aren't Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Peace
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 04:44 PM

It's the thought that counts.

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: GUEST,me
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 04:58 PM

Why do people think this is a story that SHOULD have happened? Let's not forget that the person who made up this tale started it by have some poor girl raped. What? The more chaos, pain and death, the better?

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Peace
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 05:38 PM

In a manner of speaking, yes. In another manner of speaking, no.

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Nerd
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 08:48 PM

Also, why would someone start a thread in a folk music forum with just a cut and paste version of a story that isn't true?

Subject: RE: BS: australian granny
From: Nerd
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 08:51 PM

Answer: red_clay is a new member who has just joined so he can make right-wing comments in political threads and cut and paste other nonsense like this from the internet.