Heard this on the radio, Chuck Swindoll told it.

An elderly lady came out of the grocery store with her groceries. As she pushed the grocery cart to her car she noticed 4 men in the car. The lady had a concealed weapons permit, she took her 45 out of her purse and ordered the men out of the car, they fled in a panic.

The lady got in the car after putting the groceries in the back seat. She realized her key would not fit the ignition. She got out of the car and looked down the aisle the car was parked in, her car was about 4 cars down from where she stood.

After putting her groceries in her car she drove to the police station, she was telling a policeman about the incident, he started laughing, he pointed to 4 men telling another policeman about a woman who hijacked their car.

hahaha, that is great!

Chuck always finds good stories like that.

Good thing she had displayed some restraint. Had she pulled the trigger, she would have a much more horrible story to tell... To the judge and jury.

Wow, it wasn't even her car?! How creepy is that? The men weren't too bright going to the police station were they

Let's hear it for packin grannies

Heard that on the BoB & Tom show a couple years ago ... here's another that was told:

Riddle me this ...

You're driving a bus, 4 people get on at the first stop. 6 people get off at the second stop. 12 people get on at the third stop and 15 people get off at the fourth stop. What color is the bus drivers eyes?




Actually, I think I met that granny's son about 25 years ago. In Ashtabula Ohio in a very bad blizzard I came out of a Hill's department store (don't think Hill's exists anymore), and walked up to what I thought was my black Buick Skyhawk ... my key didn't work to unlock the door (before keyless entry) and immediately thought the lock was frozen up. Happens in the North ya know. Anyway, I went back into the store and bought some butane in a can, went back out to the car and proceeded to "fire" up the lock! In the middle of my pyromania idea ... out comes this HULK and throws me aside! I decide to be more stupid than I was a second ago and bow up to this freak of nature. I tell him in a slightly post puberty voice "HEY! That's my car"! And he speaks, slowly and softly, "No, I believe you are mistaken son". This of course caught me very off guard ... and I looked around for help just in case I may need it. And low and behold right there in the next space under some snow ... WAS MY VERY OWN SKYHAWK! Of course I apologized sincerely ... mainly for not beating me up or killing me.

Oh, and my own key worked just fine in my own car.

Let me put on my cop hat for a minute. If this story is true, there is nothing comical for the desk officer to be laughing about. Even if she was mistaken, someone could be just as dead from a shooting. The first question is if we charge the woman with a criminal count of menacing for pointing a handgun onto the faces of those four men. If she thought she was getting robbed, a jury would decide if that's a good enough defense.

I wouldn't really lean towards an arrest, but I guarantee she would never possess a gun again.

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Originally posted by scpd3045:
Let me put on my cop hat for a minute. If this story is true, there is nothing comical for the desk officer to be laughing about. Even if she was mistaken, someone could be just as dead from a shooting. The first question is if we charge the woman with a criminal count of menacing for pointing a handgun onto the faces of those four men. If she thought she was getting robbed, a jury would decide if that's a good enough defense.

I wouldn't really lean towards an arrest, but I guarantee she would never possess a gun again.

Wouldn't it take a felony arrest to remove her right to possess a CW Permit and weapon?

We've had a rash of incidents here in Utah of muggers following elderly folk out of stores, beating them into the ground and robbing them. More and more these attacks are by gang/illegals. There is a paranoia setting in that is quite understandable, and many - including myself - are going armed in towns that 30 or 40 years ago only had one or two part-time cops who only patroled on Friday and Saturday nights to help the local drunks get home safe. "Mayberry" has turned into "Dodge City" in too many places, because of the blatant lawlessness that is overwhelming ever expanding police forces.

The above incidents are obviously funny, spooky, and wrong at the same time - but they are also understandable in these times.

There is a young lady missing in Provo. Her bike was found abandoned by a bicycle trail. Someone used her bank card at a nearby convenience store - -

There be MONSTERS out there - -

When the circumstances are right, a permit can be suspended even though no charges are being considered. Judges routinely order weapons to be surrendered when an Order of Protection is issued.

I've only attended 4 hearings involving the suspension or revocation of a pistol permit. Two of the times were for failure to safeguard a handgun. Another time a registered handgun owner pointed a gun into his customer's face during a dispute. The last was when a guy patronized a prostitute and had a gun on him. It was suspected he was impersonating a cop.

My conduct was carefully perused with one gentleman. He was a major financial contributor to a political party and had lots of friends. It was hinted to me I should fail to appear to the hearing. I said no way. He left his car running and unlocked in a posted fire zone then went shopping. When he returned his car with gun inside were gone. He even explained the gun was lying unsecured between the 2 front seats.

Know what happened? They scheduled the hearing on my day off so I wouldn't attend. Guess the political machine is alive and well.

Getting back to the original post. Who is at more risk, society with its right to protect itself, or the citizens from this lady who maybe to unbalenced to make wild accusations and threaten others with a deadly weapon?