82-year-old former Miss America stops thief by shooting his tires out
posted at 9:07 am on April 20, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Turns out she was the first redhead to win the crown. I’m surprised — most redheads I know would have shot him dead.
Still, awesome:
After confronting a man she said was stealing from her Kentucky farm, Ramey pulled out a gun and shot out a tire on his truck so he couldn’t leave, allowing police to arrest him and two others.
“He was probably wetting his pants,” Ramey said Thursday from her home in Waynesburg, about 140 miles south of Cincinnati…
She had to balance on her walking stick as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.
“I didn’t even think twice. I just went and did it. If they’d even dared come close to me, they’d be 6 feet under by now.”
Ramey then tried to flag down people driving by. When one stopped, she asked them to call 911. Eventually, three people were arrested - one at the scene and two others walking on a nearby road.
“They’ve been stealing from me for years. Those good-for-nothing slobs,” she said.
Her pet issue as Miss America was suffrage for Washington D.C. (where she had won the local pageant). She’s having a good week this week.
Exit question: More guns, less scrap-metal theft?
Update: Here’s a color(ized) photo of then-Miss D.C. Venus Ramey.
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We need more people like her around.
WisCon on April 20, 2007 at 9:12 AM
I love older women! Way to go Venus!
On DC….I thought DC was created as neutral ground? What is next…two senators?
Limerick on April 20, 2007 at 9:14 AM
Very astute observation. Mellowed with age, perhaps?
Venus if you will
please send another punk
for me to kill
Pablo on April 20, 2007 at 9:20 AM
My kind of woman!
dalewalt on April 20, 2007 at 9:23 AM
GREAT…More of the same!
davy on April 20, 2007 at 9:23 AM
Well, if American’s don’t understand the First and Second Amendments, they’re CERTAINLY not going to understand the need for DC to be neutral.
Great, ANOTHER House seat for a ultra Lib.
tickleddragon on April 20, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Remember that horrendous story about the mugger who was punching elderly women in the face? I wish he would meet his Venus.
Did they ever catch that creep?
wytammic on April 20, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Awesome!
vcferlita on April 20, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Ramey’08 !
Viper1 on April 20, 2007 at 9:36 AM
Awesome. I carry a .38 snubby myself (well, I go back and forth between that and my P99). And I vow to still be packin’ when I’m her age, should I live to be her age.
And I could be wrong here, but shouldn’t that bill require a constitutional amendment like the rep from Texas said?
sarahk on April 20, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Can you please show me the part of the Constitution that tells me that since I choose to reside in Washington, DC I give up my rights for Congressional Representation and must remain politically neutral on all issues?
And you know what, I’m even willing to compromise…if my status as a DC resident exempted me from paying Federal Income taxes I could deal with being disenfranchised; we’d probably even change our license plates.
But until then: No taxation without representation
You can’t get more American than that…
JaHerer22 on April 20, 2007 at 9:45 AM
Aim a little higher next time girl!
infidel4life on April 20, 2007 at 9:56 AM
LMAO! @ Pablo
infidel4life on April 20, 2007 at 9:57 AM
It used to be that women carried .25 caliber revolvers because they are small, compact, and easily fit in a purse.
Today, however, because of the social instability that liberalsm has created in the country over the past 6 years,
with judges letting muderers, rapists, and pedifiles go free, women have found it necessry to go to a higher caliber weapon that has more ’stopping’ power in order to protect themselves.
I say: YOU GO GIRLS!
pocomoco on April 20, 2007 at 9:58 AM
Stop crime - Get a legal firearm, learn how to use it, keep it handy, apply when needed.
Hening on April 20, 2007 at 10:26 AM
No one has to live in D.C. They choose to live there. Move to Maryland or Virginia if you want representation. The District was supposed to be the seat of government, not another state, and not a part of another state. It was apart from the states. The was the whole point. Move if you don’t like it.
Laddy on April 20, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Very astute observation. Mellowed with age, perhaps?
-Pablo
no no…Redheads do not mellow with age…they just get crafty. My mother will kick someone’s butt quicker now than she used to…now you won’t know it’s coming until shoelaces come out your mouth. At 63 she’s as feisty as ever and still very much a redhead.
Pilgrim on April 20, 2007 at 10:32 AM
I wonder if we’re related …
Bill Ramey on April 20, 2007 at 10:33 AM
Oh…and I just LOVE Kentucky girls. So much so that I married one! ;)
Pilgrim on April 20, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Go girl!
Heh. Agreed. My older sis is a redhead and I rarely ever cross swords with her because I hate losing - and she always wins. ;)
SisterToldjah on April 20, 2007 at 10:39 AM
You about to give every schmoe that pays sales tax on a candy bar the vote as well?
The part in the Constitution that says you don’t get a vote is the part that defines Congressmen as representatives of states.
Washington, D.C. is not a state. You gonna have two Senators as well? And last time I checked, it took a Constitutional amendment just to allow you to vote for President. Now you’ve being redefined as a state, given a vote in the House, by a simple majority in the House. Oh, and you don’t even have control over your own city.
You aren’t even a fully autonomous city, but you get a vote in the House? New York City is far more consequential as a city than you are, and they don’t have a vote as a city. Yeah, that makes sense.
Got logic?
spmat on April 20, 2007 at 11:02 AM
This story is obviously phony.
Law-abiding citizens never, ever defend themselves with firearms. Ever. My television says so.
C’mon. Haven’t you been paying attention?
Quit making stuff up. Next thing I know, you’ll be claiming that the weather changes on its own once in a while or some such silliness.
Please.
Professor Blather on April 20, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Oh - and hubba hubba. Yowza. She was hot.
Add “1944″ to my top 5 list of destinations, as soon as Al Gore gets that time machine finished.
Professor Blather on April 20, 2007 at 11:15 AM
There isn’t one. First, you don’t have a right to Congressional representation to give up if you live in DC. If you’d like to acquire such a right, move. Second, no one has said that you must remain politically neutral. The first Amendment works just fine in DC, and there are plenty of political opinions expressed there.
Or we could pull the 25% of DC’s operating budget that it supplied by the Federal government! And we could shrink DC down to the Hill, the Mall and surrounding areas and you could beg Maryland and Virginia to annex you. Fortunately for DC, Congress doesn’t really care what you’re willing to compromise over.
Give them the 23rd Amendment, and they think they’re a state…
spmat,
DC has a non-voting delegate.
Pablo on April 20, 2007 at 11:16 AM
I’d bet dollars to donuts the members of NOW are wailing and gnashing their teeth.
Oh for the days when a woman didn’t have to have had a lesbian experience to get respect from both sides of the political aisle.
csdeven on April 20, 2007 at 11:17 AM
“All I did was kill the car!” –Richard Pryor
mymanpotsandpans on April 20, 2007 at 11:18 AM
Move to another state you crybaby.
csdeven on April 20, 2007 at 11:19 AM
Do most of you realize how hard it is to hit anything closer than about fifteen feet with a snubnose .38? Let alone an 82 year old person balancing on a cane shooting at a moving TIRE?
Jeeze for the days when women were MOSTLY mature adults who understood their unique femininity instead of spoiled wanna-be princesses talking to their vaginas.
csdeven on April 20, 2007 at 11:26 AM
Heh.
Jaibones on April 20, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Yeah, as a former Miss America she obviously didn’t know her place.
smellthecoffee on April 20, 2007 at 11:57 AM
I suppose its that PART that ties the elections of representatives and senators to residency in a “state”.
Boy, if you’re this sXXXXd we’re ALL better off if you dont vote . . . anywhere.
Labamigo on April 20, 2007 at 11:59 AM
You got that right! I just realized I live ~40 miles from this amazing woman. I’ve known my fair share of no-nonsense KY woman during my lifetime, and she represents our fair commonwealth well!!
lan astaslem on April 20, 2007 at 12:05 PM
*women
PIMF
lan astaslem on April 20, 2007 at 12:05 PM
DUDE!!! 40 miles?! Get a video camera and interview her for Hotair! That would make a great vent!
csdeven on April 20, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Posted by Herr’s wife
Heard her on WLW in Cincy this morning. She was packing in the studio. Way to go Grandma!!!
HerrMorgenholz on April 20, 2007 at 12:24 PM
A shame she wasn’t a VTech professor of etiquette.
(I’ll bet there’s a sword in that “cane”.)
profitsbeard on April 20, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Sweet.
She did say that if they’d approached her “they’d be 6 feet under by now.” She was just being sensible.
Also awesome:
Tanya on April 20, 2007 at 1:07 PM
I almost married a redhead awhile back, she would have emptied the magazine on him… on a good day.
Zorro on April 20, 2007 at 1:14 PM
Yeah, what we need are more gun laws. /sarcasm
She must have complained to the cops about being robbed so many times and finally took the law in her own hands.
I guess that’s why they call her generation the Greatest
Kini on April 20, 2007 at 1:17 PM
They should add a marksmanship component to the miss america pagent now–and they should have to carry during the whole show.
Awesome.
TexasDan on April 20, 2007 at 1:36 PM
Now THIS is my kind of Gal!
Lawrence on April 20, 2007 at 2:07 PM
OK this is your official CONTENT WARNING!!!!
Lots and lots of neked boobies ahead!!!
csdeven on April 20, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Then there is this little gem. No content warning required.
csdeven on April 20, 2007 at 2:41 PM
So when will she be prosecuted for unnecessary use of deadly force? Oh wait, this happened in flyover country, where common sense isn’t dead.
The only valid gun control is a steady sight picture.
Freelancer on April 20, 2007 at 3:42 PM
Where is this? Lewiston Mass? I don’w know what’s up here in New England… We started taking in Sudanese about 10 years ago, I think like 50 in the first batch, and at least that many more since (I just moved back last year and you see them everywhere. Sorry, they just stand out in a state that is only .5% black). They used to be really cool, respectful dudes. I remember reading in the papers how they were taught to live in civilization, taught about ice, etc. It was chuckleworthy when you’d see them riding bikes around town… .with winter coats on… in the summer.
Now virtually all of them have adopted “black culture”, obviously from what they see on TV, etc. You see them all decked out in bright colored sagging FuBu gear all over town, rolling in big “crews”, listening to rap, being rude to women, giving you the vibe you don’t want to walk by their (GOVERNMENT PAID FOR) apartment. And those that don’t are getting a free ride at UVM right now. Meanwhile, Vermont has the highest taxes per capita in the nation. Ain’t liberalism great!?
RightWinged on April 20, 2007 at 4:36 PM
After this terrible week of news and crappy Hocky (DAMN PREDATORS!!!), I really needed to crack a smile. Thanks a bunch for this.
robblefarian on April 20, 2007 at 4:36 PM
Thanks! I was going to type almost the same thing, but you beat me to it by half a day.
LegendHasIt on April 20, 2007 at 8:03 PM