Making do in a tough spot.Ninety-three-year-old Edward Cosgrove has had a sore shoulder since two young men physically attacked him, but he says "the soreness could just be his arthritis arthritis, painful inflammation of a joint or joints of the body, usually producing heat and redness. There are many kinds of arthritis. In its various forms, arthritis disables more people than any other chronic disorder. acting up," reported the Times-Leader (Pa.). Cosgrove, who walks and hunts regularly, had just walked out of a Save-A-Lot grocery store in Pantego, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (pĕnsəlvā`nyə), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bordered by New Jersey, across the Delaware River (E), Delaware (SE), Maryland (S), West Virginia (SW), Ohio (W), and Lake Erie and New York , where he had just used a "$100 bill for a $12 dollar purchase," when he was attacked, likely by thugs who had seen him pocket his money. He was knocked down, and one assailant tried to grab his wallet See digital wallet. . Cosgrove fought to keep his wallet. As he battled, he reached into his truck and told the man he was fighting, "If I can reach my pistol, I'm going to kill you," prompting the would-be robbers to flee flee v. fled , flee·ing, flees v.intr. 1. To run away, as from trouble or danger: fled from the house into the night. 2. . But Cosgrove didn't have a gun with him; he'd run a bluff. Cosgrove's quick mind also proved to be the undoing of at least one of the two criminals in another way: he got the criminal's license plate number. Damaris Trass trass n. A light-colored tuff used in hydraulic cement. [Dutch tras, short for obsolete terras, tiras, possibly from Italian terrazzo, stone chips; see terrazzo.] was arrested for participating in the attack. |
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