HOUSEWIFE KNOCKS BURGLAR ON THE
NOODLE WITH NOODLES
Mrs. Evangeline Whalen of 1492.5 Southwest Tripod Street
in Pensacola, Florida, watched as police escorted would
be burglar Robert R. Roderick from her home. Mrs. Whalen
had been in the process of preparing supper when she had
heard footsteps on the cellar stairs. She turned just in
time to see the cellar door open and a man wearing a ski
mask in the door way.
“It was the only thing I had handy,” Mrs. Whalen
explained later. “There was nothing else I could do. I
took the pot of noodles I was preparing for supper and
threw them at him. He slipped in them and fell head over
tea kettle back down the cellar stairs. Perhaps I should
make that head over noodle pot,” she added reflectively,
as she gave the matter a little more thought.
“I looked down the stairs and he seemed to be well taken
care of, so I stopped and turned the burners off on the
stove so that there wouldn’t be any accidents or
anything of that sort and then I called my husband and
after that I called the police.”
“Well, you certainly did an amazing job of remaining
calm and collected and handling what had to have been a
terribly frightening situation,” Sgt. Bernard O’Brien of
local Metropolitan Police Force praised her.
“I really didn’t have time to become frightened,” said
Mrs. Whalen. “It was all over and done with before I
thought of being frightened. I just did what I had to
do. I’m sure anyone else would have done the same thing
in similar circumstances. I was so sorry to have to do
anything like that.”
Burglar breaking into
house - the cctv pictures
“Well, I don’t think he’s too badly hurt,” answered Sgt.
O’Brien. “And what ever injuries he did sustain are
certainly his own fault, not yours. In my opinion, if
he’s hurt he deserves to be.”
“Oh, it’s not that,” answered Mrs. Whalen. “It’s just
such a mess to clean up. I’d just finished mopping that
floor a bit earlier too. Now I’ve got sticky noodles all
over the place. If I’d been thinking, I would have
waited till he came too and made him clean it up before
I called the police.”
The pot noodles thrown
at the burglar
“Well, you certainly seem to be calm and collected. In
my opinion, you are a very brave lady,” Sgt. O’Brien
told her, as he made notes on his police report. But
there is one thing I don’t understand. Why did you call
your husband before you called the police? I would have
thought it would be the other way around.”
“Oh that’s easy,” answered Mrs. Whalen. “I knew he would
be leaving work any minute and I wanted him to stop for
pizza on the way home. It’s a shame too,” she added,
shaking her head. “I was so looking forward to those
noodles.”
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