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Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder.

Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.

Ramey said the man told her he would leave. “I said, ‘Oh, no you won’t,’ and I shot their tires so they couldn’t leave,” Ramey said.

She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-calibre handgun.

“I didn’t even think twice. I just went and did it,” she said. “If they’d even dared come close to me, they’d be six feet under by now.”

I love stories like this. It shows the chutzpah of a certain generation that is simply too rare these days.

While she was Miss America, Venus Ramey sold war bonds and her image was featured on fighter planes. What does the current Miss America do for America these days, anyway? Just wondering….

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