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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / June 2005OT - Don't tell this Granny to get her gun!
She'll Use it! http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4649603/detail.html Police: Crime Of Passion Erupts In Senior Citizens' Home POSTED: 3:26 pm EST June 24, 2005 UPDATED: 5:09 pm EST June 24, 2005 ATLANTA -- A passionate geriatric love triangle ends with a fatal shooting in Atlanta, police said. A great-grandmother allegedly gunned down her former boyfriend, then told police officers, "I did it, and I'd do it again!" The shooting happened at a senior citizens' home in Atlanta. Lena Driskell, 78, is accused of plotting the shooting of her 85-year-old ex-beau, Herman Winslow, because she was angry their yearlong romance was ending and that he'd found another companion. Authorities said after a nasty breakup with Winslow, Driskell kept showing up uninvited at his apartment in the seniors' complex where they lived. They said a security guard tried to calm Driskell down, but she drew out a gun, pressed it to Winslow's head and fired up to four times. Driskell is under house arrest.  SignatureThe ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)© email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep >She'll Use it! >http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4649603/detail.html [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >Driskell is under house arrest. Yikes! Now I'm glad my dad is relatively safe in Florida. :P Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > She'll Use it! > http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4649603/detail.html (snipped) That's a horrible story!! Can you even imagine? I thought people were supposed to mellow by the time they were senior citizens. A geriatric love-triangle. Who'd a thunk. Sherry >> She'll Use it! >> http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4649603/detail.html [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Sherry I think that only works for people who were wild when younger. People who are milder seem to throw caution to the wind as they get older. IME only. > > That's a horrible story!! Can you even imagine? I thought people were > > supposed to mellow by the time they were senior citizens. A geriatric [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I think that only works for people who were wild when younger. People who > are milder seem to throw caution to the wind as they get older. IME only. Well, you know how they say women turn into their mothers. They can't help it, it's genetic. Don't know if that's true, but I have turned into my grandmother. I realized that looking into my closet and seeing all the garish colors. She loved colors. She loved flowers and cats. She also was also a little bossy. No comment. LOL. Sherry Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: > She'll Use it! > http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4649603/detail.html (snipped) That's a horrible story!! Can you even imagine? I thought people were supposed to mellow by the time they were senior citizens. A geriatric love-triangle. Who'd a thunk. Sherry Oh heavens! Who told you that?! <G> Granted, the gun was extreme (at any age). But where my parents live, even though it's not specifically a "retirement community" mostly the people who can afford to live there happen to be retirees. Mom is always telling me about so-and-so up the street got caught by his wife en flagrante with the widow woman on the next block, or couples who had been married for 50 years are suddenly splitting up and moving in with others on the island, like a senior version of "trading spouses". Jill >Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: >> She'll Use it! [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >moving in with others on the island, like a senior version of "trading >spouses". Also, if an elderly person is developing dementia, their impulse control is likely to start slipping, leading them to act on impulses that they might have had the self-control not to act on earlier. During his last 5 months of life, my father had both a series of small strokes and some form of progressive dementia that caused visual hallucinations (Alzheimer's was ruled out, but what he _did_ have was never officially diagnosed). I ended up having to place him in a nursing home. He became rather crude in his language at times, although I don't recall ever having heard him swear before, and kept wandering into other people's rooms and rummaging through their belongings. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > >Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: > >> She'll Use it! [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > wandering into other people's rooms and rummaging through their > belongings. That's very true, John and I'm sorry you had to deal with that with your father. I knew a fairly young woman (I think she was 64) who had altzheimers (I do believe they formally diagnosed it as such). When her husband's son and wife moved back from California to help him take care of her they lived in the finished "attic" of the house. They had their own bathroom. Sometimes they would find their drawers had been searched. Who knows what she was looking for. Sometimes (as with a cat) the toilet paper in their bathroom was just unwound off the roll. There is no apparent reason for such actions, but people suffering from Altz. and dementia praecox exhibit a lot of the same symptoms. The few times I met this lady, she was sweet as could be. But she also insisted she had been "Elvis' girlfriend". Family members suggested I humour her when she talked about Elvis. I don't know if that's a good or a bad idea. But since I knew she was from Michigan and didn't move to Memphis until long after Elvis died, I just nodded and smiled and offered her refreshments :) Jill > That's very true, John and I'm sorry you had to deal with that with your > father. I knew a fairly young woman (I think she was 64) who had [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Jill Oh dear. This a worrisome topic. My own father is getting very "quirky". And a little paranoid over the dumbest things. Government mind control tactics, government tracking devices, and the like. (he is a retired rancher, never leaves a 5-mile radius of his house and believe me, the government has much more interesting people to track) I wonder if it's something medical. Sherry > > That's very true, John and I'm sorry you had to deal with that with your > > father. I knew a fairly young woman (I think she was 64) who had [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Sherry How old is your father? Mine will be 81 on August 3rd and he's getting quirky, too. But he's also been through a lot of surgeries and he hates not being able to get around like he used to. It upsets him. I upset him! (LOL) I was supposed to be happily married and have produced grandchildren by now. Lord knows why he'd want another grandchild. We aren't the sanest bunch on the planet :) Jill |
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