“I’m alone and I’m old, but guess what? I’m tough,” she said. Written by Jasmine Willie Murphy, an 82-year-old woman and award winning body builder, found herself in the middle of a home invasion and lived to tell the tale. Murphy works out at the Maplewood YMCA on a daily basis and can deadlift 225 pounds, she says. “The officers that came wanted to go on my front porch and take selfies with me,” she said. An 82-year-old grandmother - who also happens to be an award winning bodybuilder - has told the story of how she confronted a burglar more than half her age and absolutely battered him.
When police arrived, the man was taken to the hospital, and Murphy applauded as a star. Then, she grabbed a bottle of shampoo and emptied “the whole thing” on his face while he was on the ground, she said. “And when he’s down,” she continued, “I’m jumping on him.” “I took that table and I went to working on him,” Murphy said. So she grabbed the closest thing she could find to defend herself - which happened to be a table with metal legs. When she called the police and wouldn’t let him inside, the man broke down the door, Murphy said. Thursday when a man started pounding on her door, saying “I’m sick, I’m sick.” Murphy was getting ready for bed around 11 p.m. “He picked the wrong house to break into,” Willie Murphy told local station WHAM. This is how you turn the tables on a home intruder!Īn 82-year-old female bodybuilder used various household items - including a table, shampoo and a broom - to take down a man who broke into her home in Rochester, NY. I called Rochester 'Grim and Depressing' - here's what happened when they invited me to take in a game Rochester cop faces departmental charges in Daniel Prude death Rochester mayor to resign after accepting plea deal Yes, I did.'It's just crazy': A dozen US cities set annual murder records with three weeks left in 2021 "I think he was happy when he went in the ambulance because I sent him in the ambulance. Murphy thinks he was probably relieved to be out of the house. "He's laying down already because I had really did a number on that man.
He's dead weight."Īt that point, the police arrived in response to Murphy's earlier call. And I'm trying to help him get out of the house, but he's too heavy. Though Murphy said she can deadlift 225 pounds, she struggled to drag the man out of the house. Next, she said, she took a broom and whacked him some more.īy that time, the intruder was ready to leave. Unphased, Murphy said, she used the metal legs of the table to keep hitting him.Īfter jumping on him a couple times, Murphy ran to the kitchen, grabbed a bottle of baby shampoo and squirted it on the man's face as he tried to get up. "I took that table and I went to working on him," she said. Who said she works out at her local YMCA almost every day.Īs Murphy tells it, she used a barrage of household items to attack the intruder, beginning with her own table. "He picked the wrong house to break into." But guess what, I'm tough," she said, bearing her muscular arms. "It's kind of semi-dark and I'm alone, and I'm old. Then, she said, he became angry and broke through the door. Murphy told WHAM she called the police but wouldn't let the man in her house. Willie Murphy said she was getting ready for bed Thursday night when a man began pounding on her door, urging her to call an ambulance for him, CNN affiliate WHAM reported. A man broke into the Rochester, New York, home of an 82-year-old grandmother. An 82-year-old female bodybuilder fought back against a man who broke into her home on Thursday night as she was getting ready to bed, using her daily workout regimen and various household items.