Dawn Fraser
Have you ever heard the old saying that “old age and treachery always overcome youth and skill?”
Apparently a young thug in Australia never had heard it, so he learned that lesson the hard way, when he tried to rip off 72 year old Dawn Fraser at her daughter’s home on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
In Dawn’s own words “This guy grabbed me, so I grabbed him by the ear and I kicked him in the groin. I have a titanium knee, so it must have hurt him. He had to let me go. He threatened my life and I got really annoyed about that and just grabbed him by the ear and the hair.”
The home invader managed to break free and escape his intended victim, but can you imagine how that must have affected his ego? It’s one thing to be a failure as a criminal, but to be beat up by a little old lady really adds insult to injury! Two teenagers have been arrested in the case and are being held for trial.
Of course, Dawn Fraser isn’t your typical elderly woman. In fact, she is a four time gold medal winner who represented Australia in the Olympic Games from 1956 through 1964. So stick that in your crack pipe and smoke it!
Dawn may be an Olympic hero, but with a chuckle she admits to having a little larceny in her own past. It seems that as a prank during the 1964 Tokyo Games, she joined a midnight raid to steal a flag from the entrance to the Emperor’s palace. She was caught and arrested, but when the authorities learned who she was, she was released and given the flag as a gift from the Emperor.
As for her hapless assailant, Dawn said “I came up for a holiday and here I am being threatened with my life! Not good. Not good at all.”
I bet that’s one hoodlum who will think twice before he picks his next victim!
Submitted by Nick Russell
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