Tosa Woman Literally Drives Off Likely Would-be Robbers

Fear turned to anger and then to calculated pursuit for a Wauwatosa woman who felt threatened enough by two strangers who approached her in her driveway that she drove them off with her car and then gave chase.

At 7:57 p.m. Friday, a woman who lives in the 8600 block of Jackson Park Boulevard reported that she had just had an encounter with two men she believed were intending to rob her.

She had just arrived at home, parked in her driveway and was walking toward her house when she saw two men wearing hoods walking up her driveway toward her.

Fearing she would be robbed, she jumped back into her car and locked the doors. Then, realizing she would be helpless if they had any weapons, she started the car and abruptly backed up, intending, she said, to run over the suspects, scare them off, or at least make good her own escape.

In her rear-view mirror, she said, she saw the two men run, and they kept going to a car parked in the shadows on the street and fled in it. The woman followed, hoping to get a license number, but she could not get close enough as they drove off at a high rate of speed.

She could not provide any physical description to police because, she said, in the dark and with their hoods up, she never got much of a look at them.