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MELBOURNE, Australia --
Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her
18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked them down and shot off their
testicles. "The old lady spent a week hunting the ex-cons, 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 the doctor I talked to 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 happy just to be alive
after what they've been through."
The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her grand-daughter 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, 'til she spotted the ill-fated rapists
entering their flophouse hotel. "I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I
shot a picture of 'em anyway and took it back to Debbie. 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. The minute the big one, Furth, opened the
door, I shot him right between the legs, right where it would hurt him most 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 three million people in the city want to nominate her for sainthood and a
medal."
LET JUSTICE BE SERVED. DEPORT HER TO AMERICA. WE NEED HER!
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