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
cellmate
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 doctor's
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 shootin' 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 know 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, Furth, 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
sainthood and a medal.
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