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Watch as grandmother fends off robber with baseball bat

Robber got a hard lesson not to mess with this woman!

A woman describes how she fended off a robber with a baseball bat. (via WSLS)

Grandma power!

That certainly was the case back when a then 65-year-old woman fended off a 300-pound man that attempted a robbery.

This happened in 2019 and is a part of a series where we are looking back at viral videos.

The video had more than 434,000 views at the time this article was published.

A former high school softball player, the woman and grandmother describes how she stopped the robber in his tracks by using a baseball bat.

The woman hit the robber in the head before he ran off and was eventually taken into custody. He was charged with two counts of burglary and drug possession.