91-yearold woman purses off snatcher

[Algorem]

Police: 91-year-old teaches purse snatcher a lesso

6/6/2005, 2:59 p.m. ET

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-17/1118083315146580.xml&storylist=cleveland

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — ...

Katherine Woodworth started swinging her purse at the man and hit him until he ran away, police said. He had walked up to her in a department store parking lot and told her that he was going to take her purse.

"I didn't have my hearing aid in, and I thought he said that he was going to take my pulse," she said. "Then he said it again that he was going to take my purse and I said, 'No, you're not.'"

The small woman with gray hair and glasses turned angry.

"He just made me mad," Woodworth said. "I wasn't really thinking, I just hit him."...

[indepat]

1. Hope my 91-year-old Mom would stow the heroics in any similar situation

[u4ic]

2. Grandma Dynamite!

:toast:

[Nay]

3. My mom would have done this, too. She would have beaten the

guy to death with her purse.