Granny solves the problem

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off  when two thugs raped
her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down  and shot off their
testicles.

The old lady spent a week hunting those men down -- and when she found them,  she took revenge on them
in her own special way,- said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp. Then  she took a taxi to the
nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as  calm as could be:
"Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God."  Cops say convicted  rapist and robber Davis Furth,
33, lost both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with  a 9-mm pistol in the
hotel room where he and former prison cellmate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed  up. The wrinkled
avenger also blew Thomas' testicles to kingdom come, but doctors managed to  save his mangled penis,
police said. The one guy, Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, but the doctor I  talked to said he won't be
using it the way he used to, Detective Delp told reporters.  Both men are  still in pretty bad shape,
but I think they're just happy to be alive after what they've been through.

The Rambo Granny swung into action June 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was  carjacked and raped in
broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on  skid row.  "When I saw
the look on my Debbie's face that night in the hospital, I decided I was  going to go out and get
those bastards myself 'cause I figured the Law would go easy on them,"  recalled the retired library
worker. "And I wasn't scared of them, either -- because I've got me a gun and  I've been shootin'
all my life. And I wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed  about owning one."

So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's description  of the sickos',
tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighborhood  where the crime took
place till she spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel.  "I knew it was them
the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of 'em anyway and took it back to  Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them,"
the oldster recalled. " So I went back to that hotel and found their room and  knocked on the door -- and the minute the
big one, Furth, opened the door, I shot 'em right square between the legs,  right where it would really hurt 'em most, you know.
Then I went in and shot the other one as he backed up pleading to me to spare  him. Then I went down to the police station
and turned myself in."

Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the  vigilante granny. What she did was wrong, and she broke  the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison, Det.  Delp said.  Especially when 3 million people in the city want  to nominate her for  sainthood and a medal.

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