Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe AVIANO, Italy, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- An 88-year-old Italian woman warded off a thief in her home, telling him he should be ashamed of himself and to get a job. The thief knocked on Rina Zorzin's door Thursday, posing as an electricity-meter man, ANSA reported. Advertisement "First he asked to see the meter and when I refused he took out a gun, thinking that would frighten me," she said. "But nothing scares me anymore, at my age, so I jumped onto his back to stop him. He grabbed me round the wrists and forced me to sit down." Zorzin would not give in to the man's demand for valuables. While the thief searched around the woman's home in Aviano, she managed to get free and run outside yelling "thief, dirty thief, you ought to be ashamed, go and get a job." At that point, the thief gave up and took off. "I would have chased after him, too, if it weren't for my artificial hip," Zorzin said.
