The RAMBO Granny of Melbourne, Australia


Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two
thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting
ex-cons down - - and shot off their testicles.

The old lady spent a week hunting those men down -- and when she
found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way, said Melbourne
police investigator Evan Delp. Then she took a taxi to the nearest police
station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could
be:

'Those *******s will never rape anybody again, by God.' Cops say
convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his
testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room
where he and former prison cellmate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up.

The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas' testicles to kingdom
come, but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said. The one
guy, Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said he
won't be using it the way he used to, Detective Delp told reporters. Both
men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think they're just happy to be
alive after what they've been through.

The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her
granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two
knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row. "When I
saw the look on my Debbie's face that night in the hospital, I decided I was
going to go out and get those *******s myself 'cause I figured the Law would
go easy on them," recalled the retired library worker. "And I wasn't scared
of them, either-- because I've got me a gun and I've been shootin' all my
life. And I wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about
owning one."

So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's
description of the sickos', tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the
wino-infested neighborhood where the crime took place till she spotted the
ill fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel.

I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of
'em anyway and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was
them, the oldster recalled.

So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on
the door and the minute the big one, Furth, opened the door, I shot 'em
right square between the legs, right where it would really hurt 'em most,
you know.

Then I went in and shot the other one as he backed up pleading
to me to spare him. Then I went down to the police station and turned myself
in.

Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal
with the vigilante granny. What she did was wrong, and she broke the law,
but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison, Det. Delp said,
especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for
sainthood and a medal.