Florida Grandma Takes Out Dentures To Scare Off Naked Intruder
Cox Media GroupPennelope Pettersen
A fearless Florida grandmother used her dentures to fight crime — successfully.
Pennelope Pettersen of Titusville, Fla. got an unusual wake-up call on Sept. 28 around 2 a.m. when she heard noises from her back porch. She opened up her blinds to find one Axel Rivera removing his clothing and beginning to “gyrate” in a “lewd manner,” according to Florida Today.
Pettersen’s attention was initially drawn to the porch because she saw a large shadow through her blinds. When she opened them to investigate, she was met with the unexpected sight:
“I always look first,” Pettersen told WFTV. “I opened the blinds and said, ‘What the hell? That’s not my cat.’”
Pettersen used to work in security and law enforcement, so naturally, she had decided to take matters into her own hands. In an effort to scare off the intruder, the grandmother popped out her dentures, and yelled through the window, “Grandma no teeth!”
Brevard County Sheriff’s OfficeAxel Rivera’s mugshot.
This bizarre tactic worked. 28-year-old Rivera, still naked, scurried off. One of Pettersen’s family members called the police and within hours Rivera had been caught in the parking lot of an apartment complex. Rivera claimed there that his clothes had been stolen.
The local police said that Rivera was able to gain entry onto Pettersen’s porch by forcing his way through a locked screen door. Rivera had also broken into the home’s laundry room.
A fully-clothed Rivera appeared in court later that day where he was charged with burglary and exposing himself. During the hearing, a prosecutor said that alcohol may have been a factor in Rivera’s unusual break-in.
Stay weird, Florida.
After this review of the best Florida man stories of 2018, check out this runner-up: Otis Ryan, a Florida man who climbed into a playground to tell kids about sex. Then, read about Carlos Cruz-Echevarria, the good samaritan from Florida who stopped along the side of the road to help a biker who turned out to be a hitman paid to kill him.
