"You call that a knife?"

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a big fan of "little-old-ladies-go-medieval-on-your-sorry-thug-ass" stories. They always bring a smile to my face.

For example, I recently told you about 74-year-old Thelma Carter, who - in her own words - "strangled the living daylights" out of an intruder into her Decatur, Alabama home back in April.

Today, meet 80-year-old Winifred Whelan of Liverpool, England. Confronted in her bedroom by a man with a knife, Mrs. Whelan ran downstairs to the kitchen and picked up a weapon of her own - a 14-inch carving knife, yelling to the intruder, "You call that a knife? This is a knife!" Mrs. Whelan and her husband of 61 years, John, were able to fend off the burglars (there were two of them) and send them running. The unlucky robbers have since been arrested and sent to jail.

The Liverpool Echo has more, including a photo of "Brave Winnie" holding her butcher knife.

Maybe civilization has a chance, after all.