Bodybuilder, 82, ‘did a number’ on intruder in her home, she says

Willie Murphy was getting ready for bed Thursday night when she heard a loud pounding on her door.

It was 11 p.m. and dark outside her home in Rochester, New York.

The man, she would later tell ABC 13, was shouting,“Please call an ambulance.” He said he had been shot. She called 911. Then Murphy, 82, said she heard a“loud noise.” Suddenly, the man was inside.

In that moment, the octogenarian made moves that would eventually grant her Internet notoriety within a subgenre of viral crime stories, in which women of retirement age fend off home invaders.

Willie Murphy, unbeknown to her intruder, is an award-winning bodybuilder who says she can deadlift 225 pounds.

“He picked the wrong house to break into,” she told ABC 13.

In her version of the story, which she recounted in great detail to her friends at the local YMCA — where she works out almost daily — the 82-year-old said she hit him so hard with a nearby table that it broke.

“And when he’s down,” she continued,“I’m jumping on him.”

Next, she said, she poured a bottle of shampoo on his face. Then she started batting at him with a broom.

“I’m alone, and I’m old,”Murphy said.“Guess what? I’m tough.”

Murphy said she “did a number on that man.”

According to the Rochester Police Department, officers responded to Murphy’s home at 10:53 p.m. on Thursday. Officials say Murphy actually struck the man in the head with a stool, not a table. She did not ask police to file any charges because the man, whom police did not identify, had been“extremely intoxicated and not aware of what was going on.”