Hell hath no Fury…
…like a little old lady with a handbag.
According to the BBC, one of the potential robbers was detained at the scene by members of the public and another three arrested by the Police shortly afterwards.
There are many things about this country that are in decline, but I firmly believe that our Little Old Ladies are the finest in the world.
In the Dark 
February 8, 2011 at 9:33 am
Reminds of the Monty Python sketch “Hell’s Grannies”….
February 8, 2011 at 9:43 am
Except that this one is on the side of the Angels.
February 8, 2011 at 10:01 am
I believe this one is a fake, but very enjoyable anyway!
Tom
February 8, 2011 at 10:50 am
Going back to the original post, I do wonder what’s going on in the head of the person shooting the video who clearly preferred to film the robbery than try to stop it like the old lady did.
February 8, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Didn’t John Nash (at least according to the film) prefer to try and work out an equation (or set of equations) to describe a robbery than he did to intervene in stopping the robbery?
February 8, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Impressive! Let’s hope the police don’t charge HER with violent conduct.
February 8, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Apparently they’re going to give her a reward (but are sensibly protecting her identity).
I did wonder about what would have happened if younger male passer-by had beaten the crap out of one of these miscreants. I think they might have retaliated more severely in such a case – they were clearly totally bemused by SuperGranny – but it is possible the Police might have taken a dim view if one of the robbers had been injured, which would have been ridiculous.
February 8, 2011 at 12:52 pm
As PG Wodehouse wrote about Bertie Wooster’s Aunt Agatha, she breakfasts on broken bottles, wears barbed wire next to the skin and bays at the full moon. (No inverted commas coz this is from memory).
February 8, 2011 at 1:13 pm
I’m sure I’ve told this story before but I can’t see the harm in repeating it.
When I first started work in Cardiff I lived in a small flat until I sold my house in Nottingham. Not really knowing anyone here very well I decided to investigate the local Bridge Club. Turning up one Tuesday I was put in a pool of people without regular partners and was drawn to play with a charming old lady, in her eighties, called Gwen. She was great fun, sharp as a tack, and a far better Bridge player than me – not that that is particularly difficult.
As a Bridge partner Gwen was terrifically cunning and resourceful; she also didn’t mind telling me politely when I’d made a mistake, which I did quite often. I enjoyed the evening enormously and we finished 4th out of 24 pairs.
I went back the following week and drew another person from the pool of unattached participants. This time Gwen was my right-hand opponent – which means that she always played her cards immediately before me. She clearly remembered all my failings of the preceding week and exploited them mercilessly. Beneath her dotty exterior there was clearly a heart of flint. I felt like I had been repeatedly skewered all evening.
Despite my ritual humilation I still enjoyed the evening, and it served to reinforce my view that if little old ladies took charge this country would be much better run.
February 8, 2011 at 5:37 pm
There’s a little old lady (Maggie Thatcher) who, I am sure, would love to run the country Peter.
February 8, 2011 at 7:44 pm
She’s not little enough.
February 9, 2011 at 7:30 am
That could be changed.
February 8, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Incidentally, let me give a plug for one of my favouritest ever films, an Ealing Comedy in which a Little Old Lady unwittingly becomes Nemesis for a gang of criminals. It’s completely and utterly brilliant.
February 8, 2011 at 2:00 pm
And it’s called…?
February 8, 2011 at 2:01 pm
The Ladykillers, as it says on the video….
February 8, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Oops! Sorry about that. Scripts on WP were blocked on my end, and so was the embedded video.
Thanks.
February 8, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Watching that little old heroine whacking robbers with her handbag this morning was really a great way to start the day.