The time and place: almost 10 o'clock in the evening, just before closing, at Morini's Market in the Mahoningtown section of New Castle, Lawrence County.
Teresa Bozul, 74 years old and a store clerk who has worked at there for 20 years, was mopping the floor.
The young man wearing an orange ski mask and carrying a large hunting knife at the cash register apparently wasn't asking for cherry slushees and hot dogs.
Before Bozul knew it, the man ran behind the counter and tried to open the cash register. The hoodlum shouted at Bozul to open the register.
Bozul had another thing in mind.
In defiance, she hit the man in the head with her mop handle. Then she hit him on the head again. And again....and again.....and again....
As Bozul was administering mop-handle justice to the would-be robber, Veronica Caravella, another clerk in the store, told the robber to leave or she'd call the police.
Before police arrived, the man fled the store without the money. Apparently, with Bozul beating him over the head with the mop, he couldn't get the cash register open. She got her licks in, to show that crime doesn't pay. Especially when you encounter a woman with a mop.
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