With six teams using their baseball bats in order to start their 2011 MLB season, it was only fitting that I run into a story of a woman using a baseball bat to thwart would-be burglars. True story: My grandma made the paper for doing the exact same thing years ago after a burglar tried to enter her apartment through the window.
By WXII12.com
A woman grabbed a baseball bat from her kitchen and used it on two men who had broken into her Bass Mountain Road home on Thursday, Alamance County deputies said.
Deputies said that as they were responding to a 911 call at the home, they came upon the suspects' vehicle along Highway 87 south.
After stopping the vehicle, deputies said Richard Guthrie Jr., 28, of Greensboro, and Jeffery Martin Moore, 42, of Burlington, were found bleeding from head injuries.
Deputies said they determined that the two kicked in a front glass door and began assaulting the woman.
That's when the woman used the bat to defend herself, striking both suspects in the head, deputies said.
They were taken to the hospital where they were treated for their injuries and released, deputies said.
Guthrie and Moore were charged with first-degree burglary, assault on a female and injury to personal property. Both were also served with outstanding arrest warrants.
They were each being held with bail set at $15,000.