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Great-Grandma Foils Purse Snatcher
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/36a25398-d869-4ee1-8dc4-97fa657c4b36/03AFF78F-5B83-4788-B4EF-6170F2A96B4D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/a-1279236~Great_Grandma__83__Foils_Purse_Snatcher.html?cid=sec-promo" href="http://www.examiner.com/a-1279236~Great_Grandma__83__Foils_Purse_Snatcher.html?cid=sec-promo" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/a-1279236~Great_Grandma__83__Foils_Purse_Snatcher.html?cid=sec-promo"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.examiner.com/img/FE46527A-15BB-48D3-8F98-E8221325B805" alt="Bernie Garcia, 83, talks on the phone with one of her grandchildren the day after three thugs tried to take her purse at Smith's gas station on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, N.M. on Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Garcia, who has the purse on her lap, held on and denied them their ill-gotten gains. The men were later caught on the way out of town. (AP Photo/The New Mexican, Jane Phillips)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/a-1279236~Great_Grandma__83__Foils_Purse_Snatcher.html?cid=sec-promo"><P><SPAN>SANTA FE, N.M.</SPAN> (<A href="http://www.examiner.com/map.cfm?latlong=35.6868 -105.9372&dateline=SANTA FE, N.M.">Map</A>, <A href="http://www.examiner.com/Dateline-SANTA%20FE%2C%20NpRDMpRD.html">News</A>) - Great-grandmother 1, would-be robber 0. <A href="http://www.examiner.com/Subject-Bernie_Garcia.html" title="Bernie Garcia">Bernie Garcia</A> at first thought the young man who approached her asking for money while she gassed up her car seemed like a sweet guy.</P><P>But when the 83-year-old woman told him Wednesday that she'd just spent all her spare change on gas and had none to give him, he grabbed her purse.</P><P>"But I had it wrapped around my wrist twice," Garcia said, and he was unable to pull it away.</P><P>She fought back, spraying his shirt with a bit of gasoline from the nozzle she still had in her hand. Both of them kept hold of the purse, and he pulled her to the ground and dragged her a short distance until another man confronted him.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/a-1279236~Great_Grandma__83__Foils_Purse_Snatcher.html?cid=sec-promo">"They got caught and I'm so glad," Garcia said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/a-1279236~Great_Grandma__83__Foils_Purse_Snatcher.html?cid=sec-promo">"My son said, 'Why didn't you just give (the purse) up?'" Garcia said. "'Hell no,' I told him. That was my purse. I was fighting for what was mine."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/03AFF78F-5B83-4788-B4EF-6170F2A96B4D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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