Go Go Grandma!

83-year-old woman foils purse snatcher

Bernie Garcia is my hero!

Since I know this story will disappear after about a week - here are the salient points:

Bernie Garcia said a young man approached her at a gas station as she was buying fuel for her van and asked for money. When she told him she had spent all her spare change on gas, he tried to grab her purse.

"But I had it wrapped around my wrist twice," Garcia said, and he was unable to pull it away.

She fought back, spraying his shirt with some gasoline. Both of them kept hold of the purse, and he pulled her to the ground and dragged her a short distance until another man confronted him.

You go girl!

Her son, a former firefighter, checked her out and found no broken bones.

"My son said, `Why didn't you just give (the purse) up?'" Garcia said. "`Hell no,' I told him. That was my purse. I was fighting for what was mine."

Bernie Garcia is a fighter.  I would be willing to bet she's fought quite a bit in her life to get where she is now.  People like that don't just "give up".  It's part of who they are.  Yeah, I want to be a fighter like Bernie when I'm that age.

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