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July 28, 2009
How embarassing
Wheelchair, originally uploaded by yorgak.
Every now and then, you see a story of a would-be criminal getting foiled in humiliating fashion. Well, here's another one:
Luva Rhodes said she was sitting in her wheelchair outside her residential care facility when the man walked out from a corner and immediately tried to grab her purse.
Rhodes, who has congestive heart failure, said she had the purse's handle wrapped around her chair and she said the man was unable to yank the purse free.
She said she yelled at the man and swore at him before charging at him with her electric chair.
"(I) rammed him with my wheelchair a couple of times and he took off running," Rhodes said. "He ran like a little girl."
Whoah. So, not only did Ms. Rhodes stymie her attacker, she talked a little trash. Clearly this is not a woman to be trifled with, even if she happens to be in a wheelchair.
I don't know what pursesnatchers do in their spare time - probably share secrets and chit-chat on pursesnatcher message boards, presumably. The perpetrator of this crime, however, had better lay low for a bit, because he is sure to be the object of some deserved scorn.
It'd be something like this: Yo, did u hear abt da guy who got beat up by a lady in a wheelchair? LOLZ! Pwned!
(I'm really good at cyberlingo, as you can see.)
entry no. 1401
Posted at July 28, 2009 04:32 PM