Aug 6, 2009: Road Train Vs Grandma

[ZenGum]

Continuing to demonstrate the invincibility of a certain generation of Aussie Shelias, is Dawn Fraser, former Olympic Swimming champion.

Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser says she fought off a young intruder who attacked her during a home invasion at her daughter's house at Noosaville on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

The 72-year-old says she was awoken by intruders on Friday night and went to investigate.

Ms Fraser told Channel Seven she was startled by a teenager who threatened her and she decided to take him on.

"Out came this guy who then grabbed me around the throat and said 'I will kill you', and with that I grabbed him around the ear and hair and kneed him in the groin," she said.

"I was threatened by the way he spoke to me and I'd never been spoken to like what he called me ... I think I lost it.

"I have got a titanium knee so it must have hurt him.

"[i] came up for a holiday and here I am being threatened with my life and all our security has been taken."

Police have referred two youths to the Child Protection Unit over the incident.

Police say they are treating the investigation as a trespassing incident because no homes were broken into, nothing was stolen and no-one has made an assault complaint.

Mind you, the last paragraph seems totally inconsistent with the earlier claims of a "home invasion".

[classicman]

Go grandma!

[Cloud]

titanium knee.

ouch.

[xoxoxoBruce]

....I grabbed him around the ear and hair and kneed him in the groin....

I have got a titanium knee so it must have hurt him.

Police have referred two youths to the Child Protection Unit over the incident.

[ZenGum]

Mind you, Dawn Fraser has always been a plucky gel:

During the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Fraser angered swimming team sponsors and the Australian Swimming Union (ASU) by marching in the opening ceremony against their wishes, wearing an older swimming costume because it was more comfortable than the one supplied by the sponsors. She also stole an Olympic flag from a flagpole outside Emperor Hirohito's palace. She was arrested but released without charge. The Emperor gave her the flag as a souvenir. However, the Australian Swimming Union suspended her for 10 years. They repented a few months before the 1968 Games but by then it was too late for Fraser, at 31, to prepare.