‘The Wrong Person to Mess With’: 82-Year-Old Grandma Bodybuilder ‘Wails’ On Home Intruder, Sends Him to Hospital

‘The Wrong Person to Mess With’: 82-Year-Old Grandma Bodybuilder ‘Wails’ On Home Intruder, Sends Him to Hospital
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For the home intruder, it might have seemed like a perfect scenario. It was 11 p.m. in Rochester, New York, and the only person home was a then-82-year-old grandmother who weighs all of 105 pounds (approx. 48 kg). But as the criminal was being carted off to the hospital after being arrested, he must have realized that something had gone terribly wrong.

It just so happened that the 28-year-old robber had broken into the house of female bodybuilder Willie Murphy, who can deadlift 225 pounds (approx. 102 kg), works out at the YMCA every day, and won first place in her division at World Natural Powerlifting Federation’s championships in 2014.