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Elderly Ga. Man on Oxygen Foils Robbers
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Despite being 83 years old and reliant on oxygen tubes
for a lung ailment, Harry Carpenter wouldn't let his wife of 57 years
be robbed by knife-wielding intruders in his own home.
Two would-be robbers forced their way into the home of Carpenter and
his wife, Jackie, Wednesday evening while the two were having dinner,
according to a police report.
One of them made Harry Carpenter sit down in the sun room, while the
other went with Jackie Carpenter, 80, to get money from her bedroom.
Carpenter tried to come to his wife's rescue but was threatened with the knife.
Then he got his break — his wife pretended to faint and the intruder
who was holding him went into the other room to see what was happening.
Carpenter shuffled to the laundry room, where he kept an old, unloaded rifle that he used to shoot squirrels, he said.
When one of the intruders came back, he found Carpenter aiming the
rifle at him and yelled at his companion to flee. Police were unable to
locate the two suspects, who didn't get any money.
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Awwww, isn't that sweet?! I think they kind of saved each other. (Or at least, their $$$)
I'm still sick, and does it ever
sucketh. And I have to go to Wal-Mart, which I'm not looking
forward to. I can't wait for the day when all you have to do is
select your needs from an online list and have them delivered to your
doorstep within an hour by a flying Wal-Mart deliveroboticmatica.
I mean, it'd be cool for, like, when you're sick, or really old, or
really tired. But I'd still want to go shopping myself,
usually. There's just something about staring at all those
pretty, shiny things that you can't afford....
I've lost 1 and 1/2 pounds. At least being sick has THAT silver lining. wOOt!
<3
Melissa
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