Old German woman beats back burglars with cane

Trio of burglars flee old woman's home after she started beating them with her cane

Last updated: September 15, 2018 | 19:11

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Berlin: A feisty 90-year-old German woman chased away three would-be burglars from her rural farmhouse with her cane, police said on Monday.

The retired farmer was moving around her house with the help of a walking frame and spotted the intruders — two men and one woman.

She grabbed her cane and started beating the burglars with it. The trio fled the house in a town outside Muenster. "It was quite courageous of her," a police spokeswoman said.

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