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Summary An 88-year-old Italian woman warded off a thief in her home and forced him to flee.
The thief knocked on Rina Zorzins door, posing as an electricity-meter man. First he asked to see the meter and when I refused he took out a gun, thinking that would frighten me, she said.But nothing scares me anymore, at my age, so I jumped onto his back to stop him. He grabbed me round the wrists and forced me to sit down. Zorzin would not give in to the mans demand for valuables.While the thief searched around the womans home in Aviano, she managed to get free and run outside yelling thief, dirty thief, you ought to be ashamed, go and get a job.At that point, the thief gave up and took off. I would have chased after him, too, if it werent for my artificial hip, Zorzin said.
