68 Year Old Grandmother Shoots 12 year Old

Most of us have pleasant memories of our grandmothers. I remember mine in the kitchen frying chicken, shelling peas and hanging out laundry on the clothesline. Good times!

Well, it seems these days there is a new type of grandmother, and apparently she is packing heat.

"Miss Margaret" from the southside of Chicago reportedly shot a 12-year-old boy who had been terrorizing her and other neighbors.

"This little boy started a fire in her grill, burned out her garbage can. He was a little terror," neighbor Hilda Brunt told NBC Chicago. "This has been going on for weeks."

Another neighbor said the kids "got what they had coming."

Now, I have seen some trifling, bad kids, but what kind of demon spawn do you have to be to get a 68-year-old grandmother to go all Terminator on your butt? These devil brats must make Bebe's Kids look like the Obama siblings.

Miss Margaret was like the hell with Medic Alert, 911 or even Neighborhood Watch: I got something for you bad-butt kids.

I thought my grandmother was off the chain with taking it to the butt with a switch. My grandmother has nothing on Miss Margaret; she is straight-up gangster.

Nothing pisses me off more than not respecting and honoring our elders. Those boys are lucky that her cataracts messed with her aim. They said she came out shooting.

You cannot write better material than this, people. This is cinematic. Picture it, in slow motion: The front door being flung open by a tricked-out wheelchair and a Madea-like vision -- Miss Margaret -- in her pink housecoat and slippers appears holding two Glocks sideways, shooting from the front porch.

Insert favorite gangster rap song! Classic, people!

Times have surely changed. I remember walking home from school and any number of older neighbors sternly telling me to move along if they saw me getting into any mischief. I would offer the requisite “Yes Ma’am” or “Yes Sir” and follow their suggestion. This was the mutual respect of the neighborhood's collective consciousness of raising children.

We are clearly seeing a new age of both disrespectful youth and obviously terrorized elders. Our seniors should be enjoying and relaxing in their golden years, not busting caps into the butts of crazy neighborhood brats.

This is a new day, so to give us some perspective on the new-and-improved Grandmothers, I give you Professor Locs’ Top 5 signs your grandmother could be gangster:

5. She has 16-inch rims on her Hoveround.
4. She rolls her own cigarettes for her “glaucoma.”
3. She drinks her Ensure from a jewel-studded pimp juice goblet.
2. When she tithes on Sunday, instead of dropping the usual 50 cents, she always asks the usher to break a C-note.
1. Instead of wearing dentures, she sport a full, gold grill with “Big Momma” spelled out.

People, let us do more to honor our elders and protect them so that they do not have to become gun-toting vigilantes to feel safe in their own homes.