Tuesday, June 07, 2005

91-Year-Old Fights Off Purse Snatcher

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) She’s 91 and uses a hearing aid and eyeglasses, but Katherine Woodworth wasn’t about to let somebody steal her purse.

Woodworth clobbered the would-be thief with her bag until he ran away, police said.

“I didn’t have my hearing aid in, and I thought he said that he was going to take my pulse,” Woodworth said. “Then he said it again, that he was going to take my purse, and I said, ‘No, you’re not.”’

She fought off the man in a department store parking lot Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

Read the complete article at WCCO