Just Another Day in Hugo, Oklahoma...

Here's an interesting story that I thought some of you may/may not enjoy...

It just depends on which side of the fence you ride on.

A woman in Hugo, Oklahoma, gunned down a would be robber at her liquor store on Thursday. Her 84 year old mother was manning the cash register.

Sheila Almond, 59, first shot the man in the shoulder with a pistol. When that didn’t slow him down, she laid a shotgun on the counter and blasted him in the abdomen.

“She blowed him out the door,” Bob Almond said.

You know...

People shouldn't be trying to take advantage of senior citizens.

It just ain't right...


And a disrespectful attitude has been proven to be bad for your health.

Owning a liquor store, the Almonds have anticipated that someday they would be held up. Sheila Almond wasn’t counting on being the only one in the store who knew how to use a gun when that happened.

After ordering the robber to the other side of the counter, she told an employee to “Bring her ‘Baby,’ - that’s what we call the shotgun,” her husband said.

Sheila Almond, who is blind in her right eye, wanted the robber to think there was a child in the store - maybe he would leave, she said.

“I didn’t want to shoot,” Almond said. “But if I had to shoot, I wanted my shotgun.”

As an employee scrambled for the shotgun, Almond found the pistol.

“I knew if I got my hand on my pistol he was dead,” she said. “When I brought it up, it was ready to fire. He said, ‘Give it to me.’ I shot him. I’m just thankful I didn’t break any bottles. I know that’s callous, but he was wrong.”

Do you remember the lessons that you learned in grade school?

Things like...

Keeping your hands to yourself?

You know...

Common sense kind of stuff.

The robber continued to reach for money and Almond grabbed a shotgun from her co-worker, laid it on the counter and shot him in the stomach.

...The shot sent the robber crashing through the door and into the store’s parking lot, with only his feet still on the front porch, a gun in one hand and a wad of 10-dollar bills in the other.

So there's a few lessons to be learned from this story.


#1. Don't mess with someone's 84 year old mother.

#2. Don't mess with someone who has pet names for their firearms.

#3. Don't mix guns with liquor.

Sheila Almond said she’s taking her liquor store employee out today to teach her how to shoot a gun. They’ll have to do it without “Baby,” though. The shotgun was confiscated by police.

I wonder what the new shotgun's name is going to be?

Junior?


later...