An 82-year-old bodybuilder attacked an intruder with a table, squirted shampoo in his face and was found by police beating him with a broom.
Willie Murphy was getting ready for bed in Rochester, New York, when a man banged on her door and claimed he needed an ambulance.
“He picked the wrong house to break into,” she said.
“I was whaling on that man. I said to myself, ‘If it’s my time to go to hell, I’m taking him with me!'”
“I took that table and I went to work on him… and when he’s down I’m jumping on him,” she told local TV station 13 WHAM.
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With the intruder on the floor she grabbed a shampoo bottle from the kitchen and poured it “in his face – all of it”.
She said: “I really did a number on that man, I’m serious!”
The burglar may have been looking for an easy target but ended up with a trip to hospital.
Police tweeted a picture with Ms Murphy after Thursday’s incident, saying she was “tough as nails”.
The octogenarian works out almost every day and says she can do one-handed pull-ups and push-ups.
She also won the World Natural Powerlifting Federation Lifter of the Year award in 2014 and can deadlift more than twice her weight.
Michelle LeBoo – from the YMCA gym that Ms Murphy goes to – said “she really helps dispel the myths of ageing” and called her a “strong beautiful woman” who does things “for the benefit of others”.
