Madison Heights, MI - I want Carole Penzabene and her girlfriend Kelly Templeton to move in next door to me. Penzabene, 41 and a dialysis patient, went above and beyond the good neighbor call on Wednesday night when two robbers entered her next-door neighbor’s home. Penzabene was looking out her living room window and saw two people going in and out of the the neighbor’s house.
“He was carrying a garbage can, and I thought, that’s weird, garbage day isn’t till Monday,” Penzabene said. Then she saw a young man carrying out duffel bags and putting them in the trunk of the car, and Carole Penzabene wasn’t waiting any longer. While Kelly Templeton called police, Penzabene ran over to the neighbor’s house and apprehended the criminals herself.
A Detroit News 4 video got Penzabene demonstrating how she grabbed the twenty-year-old male burglar by his collar and prepared to punch him in the face. He started crying like a little bitch, though, so Penzabene chose not to rain down the wrath of justice on him. While she has holding the male, the 18-year-old female suspect came walking out of the house, so Penzabene grabbed her too, pinning the couple to the ground while waiting for police to arrive.
Police told Penzabene she was “crazy, but a good neighbor.” The two unnamed suspects were arraigned Friday on breaking and entering and home invasion charges. When a reporter asked Penzabene why she risked her own safety to apprehend the robbers, Penzabene smiled and said, “Because he’s my neighbor and he would have done the same thing to me, I believe.”
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12 responses so far ↓
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bornagainpagan
Apr 20, 2008 at 9:33 am -Yay! Dialysis Woman to the rescue! A terrific deed, but lucky they weren’t meth heads who’d stab you for a nickel. Still, brave as all get up. I applaud Carole Penzabene, a dyke with spunk, and whose name sounds like a prescription medication.
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Totemic
Apr 20, 2008 at 9:44 am -Wow… dyke and spunk… two words I never thought I would see together. Maybe Bi and spunk….
Anyway I digress
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bornagainpagan
Apr 20, 2008 at 9:50 am -C’mon - ’spunk’ as in moxie, courage - not the ball juice.
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Totemic
Apr 20, 2008 at 12:12 pm -I know BAP, just had a smart ass comment that needed to get out.
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Twizted
Apr 20, 2008 at 12:13 pm -Dyke, Bi, either or! We need more people like her! Big kudos for Carole
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impqueen
Apr 20, 2008 at 12:33 pm -Hehhh. Her name does kinda sound like its own class of drugs. Maybe they should make a new class of adrenaline booster, call ‘em penzabenes.
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Lynn
Apr 20, 2008 at 7:14 pm -Wow She can move in next to me! I would love to have neighbors like that. Good job Carol.
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RSW
Apr 21, 2008 at 6:50 am -This was a comment on a local message board which helps explain the whole story, including how she could hold on to both people!
“this happened at my grandfathers house. thank god for the neighbor Carole. My grandpa has been staying in Vagas. It was my brothers friends that new about the money in the house. The couple themselves are extremely skinny, anyone could take them down. They are addicted to heroin. We never thought they would do something like this to us. It was my brothers best friend, the family is very hurt.”
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Angel
Apr 21, 2008 at 7:36 am -The guy started ‘crying like a little bitch’, huh? He needs to find another day job, because he sucks at robbing people. Maybe he could be a professional mourner at funerals for people nobody likes.
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Hippiepoet
Apr 21, 2008 at 7:50 am -OMFG I love this story! Right on, Carol. Woman you fucking ROCK!
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bornagainpagan
Apr 21, 2008 at 8:07 am -Or a car oil. ‘Penzabine: a lubricant that really packs a wallop [just ask the neighbours].’
I didn’t say it would make sense - it’s advertising!
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AshKristen
Apr 21, 2008 at 12:56 pm -She is a bad ass!! Im so glad to hear she is from Michigan! And her picture is amazing!
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