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Oct 1, 2009 3:57 pm US/Central
NRH Woman Hits Suspected Burglars With Pool Balls
By Selena Hernandez
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
You could say a North Richland Hills woman 'used what she had on hand' to thwart a suspected burglary attempt.
Wednesday afternoon Paula Ollie heard noises at her house on Mapleleaf Drive. "Something just wasn't right. They weren't knocking. They didn't ring the doorbell and they were whispering," the 27-year-old woman recalled.
Ollie reacted by gathering several pool balls and putting them in her son's bicycle helmet. "The pool balls just looked like the most aerodynamic, heaviest, things I could get a hold of right then," she said.
The woman then went out the back door, clinched the helmet strap in her teeth, climbed a tree and perched herself on top of the roof. "I hollered out 'death from above!' I'm not kidding. And no sooner than I said that, I started chunking pool balls at them."
Staring down at the two people she says were dressed in black, Ollie continued her aerial attack. "I just started throwing pool balls at 'em and they kinda started ducking and dodging and took off putting their hands over their heads," she said.
Ollie didn't get a good look at the suspects, but says she managed to pelt both of them and watched as they ran off in pain.
It wasn't until after the attack that Ollie called 911. When officers arrived they couldn't locate the suspects, but found the woman unharmed.
For those who know Ollie well, her rogue self-defense tactics are completely understandable. Her brother-in-law, Frank Richardson, said, "With Paula this is just normal. She doesn't do anything like the average person."
Ollie said she grabbed the pool balls only after she couldn't find her crossbow or pellet gun.
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