An elderly woman stopped a man from trying to kill her by grabbing his testicles.
Charlotte Simons was attacked by her former roommate, Leo Miller, after she asked him to pay for half of the electricity bill.
The 74-year-old woman was watching the television when Miller tried to suffocate her using a plastic bag.
To stop the attack, she said she “reached for his gonads” and squeezed them as hard as she could.
KPTV reports that Simons played dead so her attacker would think that he had killed her.
She said:
“I reached for his gonads and I just squeezed them as hard as I could. If I had a pair of cutters, he wouldn’t be wearing ‘em today, he’d be at the hospital.”
The elderly woman then pressed her Life Alert necklace to call for help.
Miller began punching her in the face repeatedly, causing one of her eyes to become swollen.
The 72-year-old man was arrested and is currently being held in Washington County Jail.
Simons has said that she hopes he will never be released.
“If you want to beat up on somebody, go to the gym and work out on a body bag,” she said.
