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Break-Ins Set Alarming Trend
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Published: October 10, 2007
When Shirley Ives heard the doorbell ring, the 82-year-old widow got up from her chair, took an ice pick she had hidden in a vase of plastic flowers, and held it behind her back. She looked through the peephole, pushing on tiptoes to raise a body shrunken by osteoporosis.
'He looked like he was clean, shaven, what I could see of him,' Ives said. 'I just went ahead and unlocked the door. Stupid, I know.'
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