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The Elderly Ball-Snatcher Was Ready

One 74-year-old woman had zero time for foolishness when she almost got robbed outside a shopping center.

According to AL.com, it all went down in Alabama after Brenda Stinson left the Piggly Wiggly for a fine day of grocery shopping. She stopped by the pharmacy to pick up medicine, then came outside to walk to her car. When she got to her SUV, Stinson said a thief came out of nowhere.

“That’s when he grabbed me,” she said. “He grabbed me so quick, we got to tussling. He was trying to get my money, but I was holding onto my pocket.”

Stinson said she never carries a purse, so she keeps her cash in a brown bag tucked in her pocket. She thinks the robber saw how she functioned in the Piggly Wiggly because he knew exactly where to look for her stash.

But, again, Ms. Stinson had zero time for foolishness that day, so she resorted to…unconventional defense methods.

Hit the next page to peep how Ms. Stinson got out of this one!

So the robber had grabbed Brenda right…

So what did she do?

She snatched back!

“I grabbed him between his legs,” Stinson said. “I grabbed him good between his legs. That’s always been my plan because that’s a man’s weak spot, but I didn’t know it was going to come true. I know he’s going to be sore.”

“We tussled about four or five minutes before anybody saw us,” she continued. “He threw me to the ground and I threw my money on the seat in the car.”

That’s when people started witnessing the scuffle and a man came over to help Stinson.

William Daniels grabbed hold of the robber, then threw him to the ground. He then pinned him face down until the Midfield police arrived.

Stinson said the robber kept yelling that he had AIDS the whole time, but she thinks he was lying to escape the situation. “He thought that man would let him go if he said he had AIDS,” Brenda said.

Police Sergeant Jesse Bell praised Daniel’s heroic actions. “We need more community involvement like this,” Bell said.

Whole time, Ms. Stinson suffered some soreness and a swollen cheek because she says the thief also punched her.

Smh.

Aside from those injuries, Stinson told the paramedics that she was okay. “They brought a chair for me to sit in the parking lot,” she said. “I finally calmed down.”

Stinson is definitely counting her blessings. “I was scared because I thought that was the end of my life,” she said. “I tell you what, the Lord gave me strength this morning.”

Indeed he did.