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Thursday, December 11, 2014

68-Year-Old Vietnam Vet Scares Off Home Invaders With .45 Sidearm, Warns Them Not to Come Back

“It was like a keystone ‘Cops’ scene,” Joseph Sapienza told the Gaston Gazette’s Michael Barrett. “When they saw the .45, one ran one way up the street, and the other went the other way.”

Sapienza, a 68-year-old disabled Vietnam veteran, faced two masked home invaders Thursday after strapping his gun to his walker and moving toward the sound of someone ransacking his home. He said he thought the would-be thieves may have considered him an easy target due to his disability.

“People see me as an easy mark,” he told the Gazette. “They probably thought, ‘We’re going to get this man’s money.’”

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good for the old guy. To bad he did not shoot them.

Anonymous said...

This is what it is going to take! And they want to take our guns away, go figure.