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Don't mess with this widow

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By 6abc
Thursday, July 26, 2012
BLENHEIM, S.C. (AP) - July 26, 2012

The 89-year-old South Carolina widow chased off two bandits with a .38 caliber pistol she pulled from under her mattress.

Hodge tells a local paper the gun had belonged to late husband, who died more than 20 years ago.

Authorities say two suspects were later busted, after a passerby noted their license plate number.

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