{"id":43033,"date":"2014-04-11T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=43033"},"modified":"2014-04-11T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:04:34","slug":"wwi-vet-and-wife-repel-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=43033","title":{"rendered":"WWII vet and wife repel attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=43035\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43035\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ruby-and-Hugh-300x152.jpg?resize=300%2C152\" alt=\"Ruby and Hugh\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ruby-and-Hugh.jpg?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ruby-and-Hugh.jpg?resize=500%2C253&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ruby-and-Hugh.jpg?w=719&amp;ssl=1 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Several of you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/news\/wouldbe-robber-chased-off-by-armed-resident\/25393958?hpt=ju_bn2\">sent this link<\/a> this morning about 89-year-old Ruby and 92-year-old Hugh Mathis who let a neighbor into their home. They thought they were helping him out until he pulled a knife and told them to give him their money. Well, Hugh told him to go to Hell and Ruby went to get their gun;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey were talking real low, and I came in to see what it was and when I did he was standing in front of Hugh with a knife saying, &#8216;Give me the money out of your pocket,\u2019 so when I heard that I ran to the bedroom and got the gun,\u201d Ruby Mathis said.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Mathis said he had no intention of handing over his money.<\/p>\n<p>He said Kelly knew they didn&#8217;t fear him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ran out the door. I was getting up to get a club and then I was going to work him over real good,\u201d Hugh Mathis said.<\/p>\n<p>Springfield Township issued a warrant and Kelly was arrested a short time later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m telling you criminals out there, old people don&#8217;t give a shit, we&#8217;ll kill you. There&#8217;s a video report at the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you sent this link this morning about 89-year-old Ruby and 92-year-old Hugh Mathis who let a neighbor into their home. They thought they were helping him out until he pulled a knife and told them to give him their money. Well, Hugh told him to go to Hell and Ruby went to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-bc5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}