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Sancho

(9,067 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 08:58 AM Jan 2014

Someone sent me this on fb, so I don't have a link...only in Florida!

Get Out Of The Car!

This is a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida:

An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it! GET OUT OF THE CAR!"

The four men didn't wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad.

The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee, and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat.

A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake. The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun.

No charges were filed.

Moral of the story?

If you're going to have a senior moment...make it memorable!

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Someone sent me this on fb, so I don't have a link...only in Florida! (Original Post) Sancho Jan 2014 OP
Sounds like bullshit. Scuba Jan 2014 #1
Could be...if anyone finds a link to a source then post it... Sancho Jan 2014 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Shankapotomus Jan 2014 #7
Dunno about that. Brigid Jan 2014 #10
"No charges were filed." Baitball Blogger Jan 2014 #2
All I had to do was Google "true account of ..." and Snopes says 'legend.' CurtEastPoint Jan 2014 #3
It's weird everywhere! raven mad Jan 2014 #5
Legend but..... Ineeda Jan 2014 #6
Here's a clipping of that story sent to me by my Dad csziggy Jan 2014 #8
Cool...that's great...thanks! Sancho Jan 2014 #9

Sancho

(9,067 posts)
4. Could be...if anyone finds a link to a source then post it...
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 09:16 AM
Jan 2014

but believe me, it could happen!

I have two friends here (a psychiatrist and a dentist) who were in a parking lot with their kids. One old guy didn't like a car going by that didn't stop for him, so he hit the car with an umbrella as it passed. A crazy (senior citizen) driver got out with a gun and threatened my friends because he thought their kids threw something at the car.

They couldn't convince the driver that the old guy with an umbrella did it...thank goodness the psychiatrist was calm and cool and talked the guy out of violence. Several witnesses repeated the kids were innocent, but there are a bunch of nuts with guns down here.

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Brigid

(17,621 posts)
10. Dunno about that.
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 01:41 AM
Jan 2014

My grandmother lost her car in shopping center parking lots in FL more than once. I also heard that security guards in shopping centers in FL spend a lot of time helping elderly folks find their cars in the parking lot.

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
5. It's weird everywhere!
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 09:54 AM
Jan 2014
Suspicious Person/Activity- Caller reported finding a bloody sweatshirt in some bushes. Officers responded and observed the sweatshirt with the heavy presence of fish scales, slime and blood and determined the sweatshirt had been discarded after someone had used it to clean fish.

Suspicious Person/Activity – Caller reported several people swimming in the City Dam at Icy Creek. Officers responded contacted the individuals and advised them to not swim in the City water supply. The individuals left a short time later.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/09/09/3066782/unalaska-police-blotter-mystery.html#storylink=cpy


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Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
6. Legend but.....
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 10:44 AM
Jan 2014

HaHaHaHa....
Hilarious, right?
Old person nearly blows away four innocent people.
HaHaHa...oh, wait.

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