It took weeks to convince his grandmother that she should carry some sort of non-lethal protection. What did the trick was hearing about a neighbor who used pepper spray to foil a mugging attempt at the bus stop.

One sunny afternoon Grandma was at a bus stop, chatting companionably with the new mother as she crooned to her two month old baby.

“It all happened so fast! One minute we were just sitting there enjoying the baby. The next minute that man ran up, grabbed the strap of her bag, and tried to take it away from her. She started screaming, the baby started crying, and – I don’t know – I just got mad.

“I was holding my cell phone stun gun in my hand, just like my grandson told me to do, and I just reached over and used it on that man’s arm. He screamed and kind of fell over. It looked like he couldn’t make his legs work right.”

“Right about then the bus came, so that mommy and I gathered up her stuff and the baby and we got on the bus and left the guy right where he was. The bus driver looked at him and then at us. He just started laughing.”

“Good work, ladies. He probably deserved what you gave him.”

“I hope he learned his lesson.”