Flower power

An armed robber proved no match for a 71-year-old woman's water hose Tuesday afternoon. The Wilmington woman scared off a would-be robber by spraying him with a water hose and screaming for help in the backyard of her Forest Hills home.

Police said the woman was unloading flowers from her van in front of her home when she noticed a man walking near her yard bend down and get something out of his shoe.

The woman took her flowers to her backyard and began watering them and when she looked up she saw a man in her backyard pointing a gun at her. After seeing the gun, she turned the hose on the man and began to scream, police said. The man ran away.

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'Hose that?'

California -- A woman used the hose at a local car wash to fend off two men who confronted her, demanded money, then attacked her with a knife.

It happened just after 7 p.m. Sunday at the SelfServ Car Wash on State Street. The men fled as the woman sprayed them with the hose.

She did suffer cuts to her hand and arm and was taken to an area hospital for treatment. The suspects were both in their 20's. Both around 5'6".

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Hammer guy

A 48-year-old man walked to his garage in Milwaukee to wash his car August 9 and found a masked man with a hammer standing outside. The homeowner asked the guy what he wanted.

"Everything that is in there," hammer guy replied.

Luckily for the car washer, he was holding the business end of the hose, so he sprayed the suspect before he ran and yelled for his wife to call police.

The soaked suspect ran off empty-handed.

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