This is a pretty sweet story

[jaxmike]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...o_wjxt/2670952


Don't rob this lady. The great-great-grandmother is packing heat.

[BCPVP]

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A 64-year-old great, great grandmother behind the counter at a Westside convenience store knew when to do when an masked robber came in Thursday afternoon and fired two shots: she grabbed her gun and shot back.

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That can't be right. A great, great grandmother at 64?! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[Dead]

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A 64-year-old great, great grandmother behind the counter at a Westside convenience store knew when to do when an masked robber came in Thursday afternoon and fired two shots: she grabbed her gun and shot back.

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That can't be right. A great, great grandmother at 64?! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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What's wrong with that? If her son is 45, and her grandson is 26, and she's 64, is that so ridiculous? It's not like they said she had a 15 year old great-great-grandson.

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Never mind. That IS ridiculous.

["spaceman"Bryce]

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A 64-year-old great, great grandmother behind the counter at a Westside convenience store knew when to do when an masked robber came in Thursday afternoon and fired two shots: she grabbed her gun and shot back.

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That can't be right. A great, great grandmother at 64?! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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What's wrong with that? If her son is 45, and her grandson is 26, and she's 64, is that so ridiculous? It's not like they said she had a 15 year old great-great-grandson.

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Never mind. That IS ridiculous.

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Not really ridiculous my aunt has been a grandmother for two years and is 35.Thats right on the 64 year old time schedule.Not really crazy just icky...

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The story says GREAT-GREAT-grandmother. That would mean the average age of her daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter when they had their kids was 16.

[Cyrus]

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The story says GREAT-GREAT-grandmother. That would mean the average age of her daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter when they had their kids was <font color="red"> 16</font> .

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You thought the phrase "they are packing heat" meant guns, didn't you ?

[Cyrus]

Isn't anyone spell-checking the stories before they go up at Yahoo?

Short on temps? Or cutting down on software maintenance?

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A 64-year-old great, great grandmother behind the counter at a Westside convenience store knew when to do when an masked robber came in Thursday afternoon.
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The search was cancelled with the suspect showed up less than an hour later at the emergency room of Orange Park Medical Center. The suspect, who police have not named, was stabilized and flown by air ambulance to Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center.
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The Apple Gate's owner said the store has been robbed three time in the last two weeks, and he think this suspect is the same man who's robbed him before.
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"She's not scared of her own shadow, let's put it that way," Overstreet said. "Maybe this will wake people up and maybe not come to this little store."
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Tsk tsk tsk.