Tough Guys

Some times all you can do is shake your head.

In Darby Township, police are looking for two thugs who picked on a 92-year-old lady.

First they tried the old con of posing as utility workers. When she was too sharp for that and told them to buzz off, they beat her to her open back door and barged in. They left with $5,000 in cash and jewels.

She was not harmed in the attack by these two gutless cowards.

The same cannot be said for a 100-year-old man in Elmwood section of Southeast Philadelphia.

The neighborhood there is in an uproar after the centenarian was jumped, pummeled and held up as he was walking home with his groceries.

This happened about 4 o’clock in the afternoon on Grovers Avenue near 68th.

The thug came up behind the old guy, put him in a choke hold and wrestled him to the ground. Then he takes off with the groceries and $30 in cash.

Nice.

I’m not much for vigilante justice. I like to leave that to the authorities.

But you’d like to think there would be a special kind of hell for guys who pick on elderly people like this.

Especially if their neighbors get to them before the cops do.

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