Geek Habitat

Reposted, as usual lately, from my geekgal.vox.com blog –

In Fairness to Californians…Californians have taken a slight beating in my blog recently (though I feel entitled, having been born there unlike the rest of you!)

Well, here you go–
Elderly Texas Woman Pulls Gun on Danish Journalist Near President’s Crawford Ranch

I quote from the article:
[The Danish journalist said] “I was just so occupied dictating my story that I didn’t really see where I went,” Svensson told me later. “I was just walking and talking.”

What Svensson didn’t realize was that he had stopped walking a couple hundred feet away, on the front lawn of an elderly woman. An elderly woman who looked through her window and didn’t like that a strange man was standing outside her house. An elderly woman who had, um, a gun.

Next thing you know the woman is outside, no more than a few dozen feet from the journalist, demanding that he leave. “Suddenly she comes out and she says, ‘Get off my property. You’re trespassing,’” recalled Svensson.

Svensson was too preoccupied to notice the pistol, and was not aware that Texas law gives homeowners leeway on using a weapon when someone is trespassing on your property. All of us journalists across the street were too far away to see the pistol at first, until a Danish photographer with a telephoto lens announced to a bunch of us that there was indeed a weapon in the elderly woman’s right hand.”