A BRAVE Airdrie (Scotland) pensioner took on a sick thug who snatched her handbag while she sat at home with her 107-year-old mother. The plucky 84-year-old, who does not want to be named, struggled with the heartless yob after he grabbed her handbag and it was only when the strap snapped that the ned managed to get away. The thief pretended to be a window cleaner in a bid to get into the woman’s Forrest Street home last Thursday. He got into the building at around 7.30pm by buzzing one of the other flats and had already been turned away after offering to clean another elderly resident’s windows for an unusually low price. And when the “innocent” looking thug knocked on the great grandmother’s door she also said she didn’t need a window cleaner. But he insisted on giving her a fake name and number in case she changed her mind and when the pensioner went inside to get a pen, he followed her into the living room. The bogus cleaner spotted the handbag sitting next to a chair and grabbed it. But he hadn't bargained on the plucky pensioner putting up a fight. She grabbed the strap of her bag and furiously fought the thug as he tried to run off. When the handle broke, he ran off with the bag containing a three-figure sum of cash, the woman’s bank card and bus pass.
Monday 23 June 2008
Bogus Window Cleaner takes on Pensioner
A BRAVE Airdrie (Scotland) pensioner took on a sick thug who snatched her handbag while she sat at home with her 107-year-old mother. The plucky 84-year-old, who does not want to be named, struggled with the heartless yob after he grabbed her handbag and it was only when the strap snapped that the ned managed to get away. The thief pretended to be a window cleaner in a bid to get into the woman’s Forrest Street home last Thursday. He got into the building at around 7.30pm by buzzing one of the other flats and had already been turned away after offering to clean another elderly resident’s windows for an unusually low price. And when the “innocent” looking thug knocked on the great grandmother’s door she also said she didn’t need a window cleaner. But he insisted on giving her a fake name and number in case she changed her mind and when the pensioner went inside to get a pen, he followed her into the living room. The bogus cleaner spotted the handbag sitting next to a chair and grabbed it. But he hadn't bargained on the plucky pensioner putting up a fight. She grabbed the strap of her bag and furiously fought the thug as he tried to run off. When the handle broke, he ran off with the bag containing a three-figure sum of cash, the woman’s bank card and bus pass.
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