Apparently the 83-year-old woman who used a gas nozzle to fight off a purse-snatcher isn't the only bad ass woman to be resourceful in a dangerous situation. This story from the New York Times is about a woman who stopped a burglar by hitting him with an ice scraper. She saw him climbing out of her window, chased him down, hit him with the ice scraper, made him pick up all the objects he stole off the ground, and held him until the police arrived.

Maybe thieves will soon learn to stop targeting "helpless" women as their victims.