SUPER GRANNY BREAKS UP JEWELRY ROBBERY
A 71 year old woman named Ann Timson rushed into action last Monday when she heard a noise coming from a jewelry store across the street. She thought at first that some kid was getting beat up. But, when she realized what she saw were six robbers, with sledgehammers, attempting to smash the store front of the jewelry store in Northampton, England she rushed into action.
Ann Timson, rushed down the street armed only with her handbag, and took on the men, breaking up the robbery and caused them to flee without being able to take anything. She said, “What concerned me was that too many people just stood around watching as if they were in shock and nobody was doing anything… When I got closer to them I realized it was a robbery and then I was even angrier that they felt they could get away with what they were doing in broad daylight.”
Timson told the robbers threatened her with their sledgehammers, but Timson kept swinging, and knocked one of the men off his motorbike. Because of her actions no one was injured, and one of the robbers was detained by some of the public at the scene. Police were able to later arrest three men, but still are looking for two more suspects.
Super Granny’s remarkable feat was captured on video and uploaded to the internet, instantly catapulting the private grandmother to international stardom. “I’m not a hero and it was maybe foolish of me to get involved, but somebody had to do something.” She told the Daily Mail. “Now I just want to be left in peace. I feel very uncomfortable with all the press and media attention.”
The owner of the jewelry store expressed his gratitude to Ann Timson. “I am absolutely amazed…it was unbelievable. No one does that sort of thing. Amazing courage and bravery and she ran so far to get involved,” Luke Allebone, owner of Michael Jones Jewelers, said.”
I don’t know about you, but I think that Granny Timson is an incredible heroine, and did really deserve making the news on TV.
Helen L. Price
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