Saturday, September 30, 2006

Josephine Confounds the "Experts"

Eighty-two-year-old Josephine Slater never even flinched when she was confronted by a masked bandit with a sawed-off shotgun inside her Midland bar and restaurant.

The owner of Josephine's Bar and Restaurant calmly threw $1 bills at the man and then pulled out a loaded handgun that she keeps under the counter.

"If you don't get out of here, I'll shoot you right now," the octogenarian told the would-be robber. "I'm not about to put up with any crap right off the street."

Josephine, Josephine...

Don't you know you should have just given him what he wanted?

After all, "We don't encourage people to take that kind of risk. [You] could have been hurt."

What if he'd taken your gun away from you?

Remember, "Use of a firearm to protect yourself or property is not recommended."

5 comments:

E. David Quammen said...

Way to go Josephine!

Anonymous said...

Of course, Josephine confounded the experts! She showed the lie of what they say, and they don't like being shown up!

Anonymous said...

Good gawd, Josephine! Don't you realise that what you did sends the wrong message? Don't you realise that actions such as you took merely perpetuate the cycle of violence???
(BTW-above is sarcasm!)

Anonymous said...

what a stoop! She didn't cry hysterically, pretend mental incapacity, talk him out of it, vomit or any damn thing that is recommended.

All she did was keep from being robbed and harmed by a creep. Certainly not a good role model for the educated, is she?

Expert= x(unknown); spurt(a drip but with more pressure than just gravity) Ergo we can mathematically state that an expert is an unknown pressurized drip. They also are always insulated, from out of town and the last to find out. Nice work, if you can get it. No risk, no knowledge, and get paid to say stupid things.

E. David Quammen said...

SA - The getting paid for it is really what chaps my hide!