[Ravensfort] Belly Dancers can be dangerous if you make them angry

[Carolyn Pace]

Who hooo! Doesn't this mean bigger IS better?!   :) xo G

On Jul 08, 2010, at 09:43 PM, Sher M <runa.herd at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Would-be robber gets the point
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> June 27, 2010 3:41 PM
> BY JAMES GILBERT - YUMA SUN STAFF WRITER
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> A knife-wielding, would-be thief should have thought twice about trying to steal the purse of local sword-wielding belly dancer.
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> “It was one of the weirdest things, one of those things you only see on TV,” said dancer Zarmineh Moody. “I guess it was like the police officer said: I had the bigger knife.”
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> The Yuma woman was the victim of an attempted armed robbery at the Fry's parking lot on 24th Street and 4th Avenue.
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> After having taught a class at World Gym, 5-foot 3-inch tall Moody said she stopped off at Fry's grocery store to do some quick shopping. While she was putting her groceries into her car, Moody said, she was approached from behind by a man with a knife who called her a nasty name and demanded her purse.
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> “I kept thinking ‘This can't be happening,'” Moody said, recalling the event from three weeks ago. “I looked back and saw the knife and had a panic attack.”
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> Moody said she told the robber that her purse was on the back seat of her car and that she would get it for him. “He kept calling me the ‘b' word and telling me to hurry up.”
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> Instead of getting her purse as the robber had demanded, Moody, a professional belly dancer whose specialty is dancing with swords, grabbed her 25-inch Turkish scimitar sword. She held it up to his stomach and asked, “You still want my purse?”
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> “I usually don't keep it there. It is usually in my trunk,” Moody said. “The only reason it was there was because I hadn't put it away yet.”
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> Moody said she and the robber stood facing each for a few moments, blades in hand, before she asked him a second time if he still wanted her purse