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07-30-2004, 09:04 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.
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.