A 93-year-old woman who told police she had a grip "like iron" after years of milking goats managed to beat off two 25-year-old robbers by grabbing one of them by the testicles and squeezing as hard as she could.
Soja Popova from Klaipeda in Lithuania was shoved to the ground when she opened the door to two young men, but she fought back by grabbing the nearest by the balls and squeezing "with all my force as hard as I could".
She told police: "He started screaming like an animal and his friend was trying to pull him free, but I have a grip like iron."
The man's screams of agony and his friend's shouts for the woman to let go alerted neighbours, who called police.
The pair were caught after escaping through a bedroom window and into the street where a police car was waiting to take the injured man to hospital and his friend to a jail cell.
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)