One Gurkha. 12 robbers. Fair fight.
Now I give you:

http://www.itv.com/anglia/armed-robbery-footage07521/

That, gentlemen, is what is known as "Giving them what for...".

Hells Granny will most likely be charged with assault by the local plod.

My grandmother (all 4'10" of her) was coming off the commuter train at New York City's Grand Central Station in the late 70's when a six-foot-tall mugger grabbed her briefcase and tried to run off with it. Refusing to let it go, she whipped it around and whaled him in the head with it, laying him out cold.

An NYPD officer observed the scuffle and was laughing himself sick. Mad as hell, my grandmother marched up to him and demanded, "Aren't you going to do something!?"

The officer responded, "Lady, it looks like you took care of it for me."

That's priceless! Don't mess with Grams.

She reminds me of my friends grandmother who once skulled two young men with a 2 quart SS pot after they broke into her home while she was there. Grandma's only lament to the LEO's who arrived a short later was that she wished that she had time to get the cast iron pot out of the cupboard...

Oh, I freaking love it. Talk about the element of surprise. Do not mess with somebody who has defended what's right all her life and is not about to stop now. Pretty sure the shame of being whomped by a granny is worse than anything.

I got an error message that your link is only viewable in the UK, but I found it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmxI5fLAxpA

A case I'm familiar with was one where an elderly lady living alone was aware of burglaries in the area. She caught a young man climbing in a window and, using the first suitable object that came to hand, a cast iron flat iron, hit him in the head. Then called the sheriff. During the estimated twenty minutes it took the sheriff's deputy to cross the rural county she sat over him and hit him again any time he raised his head.

When the deputy came in, after coming to the back door and asking permission, only louts and salesmen come to the front door, the burglar was still half in the window and, smart guy, playing dead. Lucky for him the lady, in her seventies, had the presence of mind to hit him with the flat of the iron so it did little permanent damage.

Older people can be easy targets but given the right conditions they can put up more of a defense than might be expected. Humans are dangerous animals. Some more than others but every one of us is capable of violence if the right buttons get pushed. A lack of firearms cannot be reasonably be equated with being defenseless.