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Sideline Chatter: I'm sure he wished he'd broken into the house in 'Home Alone'

What do you get when you cross bad luck with dumb luck?

Answer: The unlucky sap who broke into the home of an 82-year-old woman named Willie Murphy. As in the Willie Murphy who can deadlift 225 pounds _ more than twice her weight _ which helped her win the 2014 World Natural Powerlifting Federation Lifter of the Year award.

By the time police arrived to rescue the perp, she'd clobbered him with a table, poured shampoo in his face and was beating him with a broom.

"I was whaling on that man," Murphy told her hometown Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. "Cause I said to myself, 'If it's my time to go to hell, I'm taking him with me!' "

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