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Bad story with good ending: WABC 7 reports that two men who "beat and robbed a 70-year-old woman were arrested after they mistook an undercover police car for a livery cab and tried to hail it to flee the scene." Really! Apparently the men had attacked the elderly woman in a Bronx apartment building on Tuesday, after kicking her and stealing her wallet. They ran out to the street and "noticed a light blue car and thought it was a livery cab, so they stopped, breathless on the street, and tried to hail it." But inside were undercover cops, who asked the two muggers for ID. And one of the men came up with the mugging victim's ID--then claiming he picked it up off the sidewalk. It gets better, too: They were arrested when the victim was being transported on a stretcher by EMT workers-- "The ambulance stopped near the car, and the woman identified the suspects."

A man suspected of mugging a deaf 83-year-old woman surrendered to police yesterday. The Post reports that 21-year-old Anthony Jackson now faces assault and robbery charges after attacking Elsie Barretto, who was leaving her Upper East Side building's elevator. Barretto, standing five feet tall, did put up a fight, but suffered a black eye, broken dentures, and cuts to her mouth; her pants were also ripped (Jackson was really trying to get her money). The grandmother of 27 had requested last week, "If you find him, bring him back to me...I'm going to punch him in right in the face and I'm gonna break his mouth and break his nose. To teach him a lesson." It's unclear whether the police will comply.

This week Elsie Barretto was the latest in the disturbing trend of "granny muggings" when a robber attacked her coming out of the elevator of her Upper East Side building. The 83 year-old deaf woman suffered a black eye, broken dentures, cuts to her mouth that required stitches and even had her pants ripped by the thug trying to get at her cash. Life may have taken away her hearing, but it sure hasn't been able to get rid of her fight. She says that she kicked and punched her attacker throughout the robber in an attempt to defend herself. And she's not done. Now Barretto tells cops: "If you find him, bring him back to me...I'm going to punch him in right in the face and I'm gonna break his mouth and break his nose. To teach him a lesson."