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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 hell, 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.
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