Elderly man scares off intruder with a mop
An elderly South Carolina man fought off an armed intruder using a Swiffer WetJet. Philip Graham, 71, and his wife were cleaning the kitchen floor when an unknown man in a ski mask, brandishing what appeared to be a gun, came through the back door. Without thinking, Graham used the swivel-headed mop “like a cattle prod” and shoved the thief out the door, breaking off the mop head. “I hit him with the end of the pole where the Swiffer was and I just told him, ‘You better get out of my house, you sorry SOB, before I kill you.’” The man fled in terror. “Some of us are going to fight back,” said Graham.
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