Granny Armed with Handbag Fights Off Jewelery Robbers Smash and Grab

By Tuesday February 8, 2011

Found by Cinàedh.



33 Comments
  1. Ben-in-the-woods says:
    2/9/2011 at 5:22 am

    In fairness to the sissy-bikes, you can drive bikes up 50cc when you are 16, anything else you need to be 17 or above … frankly, I think they should let kids drink at 16, drive mopeds at 18 (once they’ve learnt how to drink properly) and drive real vehicles at 21 … this smash-and-grab being one good reason why keeping kids on low-powered vehicles is a good thing!

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  2. jescott418 says:
    2/9/2011 at 5:51 am

    Because they have strict gun laws. Granny was much safer doing this then in the US. If she would have been killed the story would have read much different.

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  3. IndyMan says:
    2/9/2011 at 6:21 am

    That looks fake(d).
    Old people got old by being tough, and smart.
    Nonetheless, I carry gunS on me for crap like this.

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  4. Ben-in-the-woods says:
    2/9/2011 at 6:55 am

    Can you legally shoot someone for doing a smash-and-grab in the us?

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  5. green says:
    2/9/2011 at 7:46 am

    Totally looks fake.

    “feel good” story of the day.

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  6. bobbo, what is the value of an idea says:
    2/9/2011 at 11:20 am

    #24–Ben==”Can you legally shoot someone for doing a smash-and-grab in the us?” //// No. Your own personal safety has to be reasonably perceived as “at risk.” While the line can be a close call at times, absent a threatened attack on you, you have to let these criminals run away–or hope for jury nullification.

    I’ve always disagreed with that for homeowners and maybe even business owners==both protecting their property. Now, should third party’s be able to shoot criminals? I’m right on the fence for that.

    some interesting hypo you can try to draw out on that though, and there does seem to be a growing exception for cop initiated violence. Especially if you “shoot them” with a camera?

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  7. Buzz Mega says:
    2/9/2011 at 1:23 pm

    Grannies with .357′s are even more effective.

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  8. Troy says:
    2/9/2011 at 4:58 pm

    I’m wondering what the chance is that a camera would be set up on a tripod, the other side of the street with that faming? I would like to know the story of the camera operator that led up to this.

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  9. hhopper says:
    2/9/2011 at 6:32 pm

    Now you’ve hit on the fishiest thing about this.

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  10. Ben-in-the-woods says:
    2/10/2011 at 1:33 am

    As for the veracity of the video, it is pretty well documented: http://telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8311295/Handbag-wielding-supergran-why-I-took-on-sledgehammer-gang-with-my-handbag.html The arrests were real … I can’t imagine someone was willing to go to jail for the sake of an internet meme …

    As for an armed granny, I don’t see how a firearm would have made a difference in this case. Unless you can simply open fire or hold them at gun point (and if either case was true, the robbers would have been armed too mostly likely) a hand bag can do the job just as well. Indeed, because there are so few guns once granny got involved others did to.

    Back before fighter aircraft, machine guns, armored vehicles and mortars having guns made sense to defend property, keep government in check and act as a balance of power. In these modern times the right to a free press, the right to film police, the right to maintain mass communication are much more important that the right to have a few weapons lying about. Both politically (and in the case of a robbery) communication and surveillance is a much better tool than .45.

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  11. Glenn E. says:
    2/10/2011 at 1:40 am

    So… In one of thee most security camera’d cities in the world… the only pictures were taken by a civilian film crew… who just happened to be there, filming, at just the right moment. I don’t think it was a cellphone video. But you’d think London would have a camera or two, aimed at a jewelry store. And the coppers might take an interest, in three guys revving their motorbikes, while three others swing away with maul hammers at unbreakable glass. And yet the very first responder is a woman in her 70s! No foot cops, no patrol cars.

    Glad to hear (or see) that the world’s most extensive and expensive city surveillance system is working just fine. Londoners better get use to the idea that they’re going to have to tackle the bad guys themselves. Because the system their taxes paid for, is likely bogged down by inefficiency.

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  12. Ben-in-the-woods says:
    2/10/2011 at 4:21 am

    It was Northampton, mate, not London. If it was London people would have either covered their Grande Latte’s and run away in-case their designer shoes get scuffed or they would have grabbed what the robbers didn’t ….

    … but ya, you are right, CCTV is pretty useless …

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  13. Rob Leather says:
    2/10/2011 at 5:13 pm

    One question. Why didn’t the would be thieves just enter the place and rob it from the INSIDE.

    If you watched the video, the door is clearly open, one of the guys inside looks out and leaves it open.

    Plus, 50cc mopeds as getaway vehicles? Hmmmm.

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