Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Coffee saves Winnipeg 'Ninja Nanny' from carjacker

A 60-year-old Winnipeg woman successfully battled a carjacker this week, armed only with a cup of coffee.

Sandy Bruderer was driving to work and was stopped at a red light on Burrows Avenue at Arlington Street when a man with a knife opened her car door and ordered her to get out. Bruderer instead started screaming and leaned on the horn.

"Then I realize I'm leaning on the horn like this because I've got hot, hot coffee. So wham, I just flung that coffee at him, and I know I got him, because there was no coffee in the van."

As her attacker pulled back, scalded by the steaming-hot cup of black coffee, he cut her right thumb, then left the car and ran away. Bruderer said it was worth the fight.

"I just decided, what, you little punk, you're not going to get the better of me. I might be 60 ... but I just fought with everything in me."

Bruderer needed four stitches to close the wound from the hunting knife's blade. In recognition of her fighting spirit, her grandchildren have given her a new nickname: Ninja Nanny.

There's a news video here. Many thanks Catherine!

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