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 cell mate 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 shooting 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 hel_l, 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, , 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 Mayor.

DEPORT HER TO AMERICA--- WE NEED HER !!

I don't have a link as this was received in an e-mail but I'm sure it's confirmed by y'all that live down under.

A most excellent post Booney

True story or not, you can't help feeling that those two low lifes got there just deserts. Do you ever remember a film called "I spit on your grave"? A woman got raped by quite a few "Hilly Billy types" and got her revenge on them, one by one. Think it got banned for a while.

Back on topic, i particularly liked the bit at the end "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 Mayor." !!!

Lady Justice!

Claim: A gun-toting Australian granny blew the testicles off the two men who raped her granddaughter.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]

www.snopes.com

and it was obviously an american who made it up or she would have been refered to as dundee

I think stu just killed this thread.

Shame I liked the idea of a granny getting revenge.

Well, Brit, nothing stopping you from creating your own urban legend. One that hasn't gotten around in emails . . . but might be destined to.

I think stu just killed this thread.

Shame I liked the idea of a granny getting revenge.

Yeah, thanks for that Stu. You'll be telling us (and proving it with a link) there's no Santa Claus next

Yeah, thanks for that Stu. You'll be telling us (and proving it with a link) there's no Santa Claus next

What ?!?! No Santa Clause ?

That can't be right ! I'm sure I saw him just the other day. He was strolling along Beach Road with the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy (well, some kind of Fairy)

Sheesh, what next. You gonna tell us that no one has ever walked on water, or fed 5,000 people with a single fish and loaf of bread ?

What other Urban Legends are going to be proven false as time goes by ?

Oh wait. Just found a picture of Santa's grave. So he is gone, just not forgotten ?

Does anyone remember Poolan Devi (?spelling) The Bandit Queen in India?

Another St. Valentine's Day Massacre

On February 14, 1981, 18-year-old Phoolan Devi had only one thing on her mind: revenge. Waiting outside the remote village of Behmai on the Yamuna River in northern India, a band of about 20 dacoits (bandits) waited for her instructions. The dacoits were from three different gangs, but their goal was the same: to hunt down the treacherous Ram brothers, Sri Ram Singh and Lala Ram Singh. Sri Ram was a vicious gang leader who had spent time in prison. He was the focus of Phoolan Devi's lust for justice because he had murdered her lover, Vikram Mallah, as she slept by his side.

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