- Jun 12, 2001
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Man, don't mess with Oregan grannies!
For the LDD (link defict disordered):
SPRINGFIELD, ORE. - Sylvia Gresham wasted no time when she realized that the truck she uses to cart around her grandbaby had been stolen from her Springfield driveway.
The 41-year-old grandmother and her neighbor Teresa Brown hopped into a car and went driving around the neighborhood looking for the missing truck when two teenage boys drove it past them. The women followed and cut the truck off at an intersection, where Gresham jumped out and confronted the teens.
She pulled the driver out of the truck as he allegedly reached for a knife, then said she cursed at him and "slapped him around."
"I told him, 'Get out of the car, get the hell out of the car,"' Gresham said Wednesday afternoon. "I said, 'Reach for the knife again and I'll kick your (rear-end)."'
Gresham said the teenage driver seemed "shocked" and claimed that a guy named Josh had given him the car to drive around.
"I told him, 'You're a liar.' I said, 'Do your parents know what you're doing?' I had him by the shirt and he was crying, saying he didn't steal it."
The boy in the passenger seat ran away, but Gresham, who is 5-foot-5 and weighs 140 pounds, held on to the driver, who was 6 feet tall and 175 pounds.
Witnesses who called police said it looked as if a man and woman were assaulting each other in the lanes of traffic, Springfield police Sgt. Thomas Borchers said. Eventually, Brown, the neighbor, was able to explain what was going on.
Police arrested the driver, Dennis Reeves, 19, who was being held in the Lane County Jail on charges of unlawful use of a vehicle, unlawful entry of a vehicle and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Police generally caution people against taking the law into their own hands, Borchers said.
"The consequences of getting in over your head are too strong," he said. "You're definitely taking a big risk."
For the LDD (link defict disordered):
SPRINGFIELD, ORE. - Sylvia Gresham wasted no time when she realized that the truck she uses to cart around her grandbaby had been stolen from her Springfield driveway.
The 41-year-old grandmother and her neighbor Teresa Brown hopped into a car and went driving around the neighborhood looking for the missing truck when two teenage boys drove it past them. The women followed and cut the truck off at an intersection, where Gresham jumped out and confronted the teens.
She pulled the driver out of the truck as he allegedly reached for a knife, then said she cursed at him and "slapped him around."
"I told him, 'Get out of the car, get the hell out of the car,"' Gresham said Wednesday afternoon. "I said, 'Reach for the knife again and I'll kick your (rear-end)."'
Gresham said the teenage driver seemed "shocked" and claimed that a guy named Josh had given him the car to drive around.
"I told him, 'You're a liar.' I said, 'Do your parents know what you're doing?' I had him by the shirt and he was crying, saying he didn't steal it."
The boy in the passenger seat ran away, but Gresham, who is 5-foot-5 and weighs 140 pounds, held on to the driver, who was 6 feet tall and 175 pounds.
Witnesses who called police said it looked as if a man and woman were assaulting each other in the lanes of traffic, Springfield police Sgt. Thomas Borchers said. Eventually, Brown, the neighbor, was able to explain what was going on.
Police arrested the driver, Dennis Reeves, 19, who was being held in the Lane County Jail on charges of unlawful use of a vehicle, unlawful entry of a vehicle and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Police generally caution people against taking the law into their own hands, Borchers said.
"The consequences of getting in over your head are too strong," he said. "You're definitely taking a big risk."
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