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Summary Trio of burglars flee old German woman's home after she started beating them with her cane.
A feisty 90-year-old German woman chased away three would-be burglars from her rural farmhouse with her cane, police said on Monday.The retired farmer was moving around her house with the help of a walking frame and spotted the intruders -- two men and one woman.She grabbed her cane and started beating the burglars with it. The trio fled the house in a town outside Muenster.It was quite courageous of her, a police spokeswoman said. But on the other hand it was also quite dangerous. She was quite fortunate that nothing serious happened.
