TULLAHOMA, Tenn. - Two senior citizens fought off a would-be robber in a parking lot near a Murfreesboro fast-food restaurant.

Their attacker is still on the loose.

Ellen Holt and Inge Schluntz made news when they fought off an intruder behind a Hardee's on Middle Tennessee Boulevard.

The suspect told the women he had a gun and demanded they give him their money.

"I kept telling him to get the hell, I mean, I can't say that on TV, but I told him to get the hell out of there and I meant it," Holt said. "We were leaving."

Holt said the man climbed inside their vehicle through the back seat and held what he claimed was a gun to Schluntz's neck.

"He grabbed my head like he was going to break my neck, ya know, that kind of a grip," Schluntz said. "And he kept saying, 'I'm going to kill you.'"

Holt said she shouted at the intruder again and this time he left without taking any of their possessions or money.

He also did not take their security or sense of humor.

"He pulled her wig off. I said, 'Where's your hair?' And it was in the back floorboard," Holt said.

The pair laughed, but they were miffed by a newspaper headline that described them as "elderly."

Reading from a dictionary, Holt said "elderly" means passed middle age and senile.

"Do not call people elderly. They don't appreciate being called senile," she said.

Holt said spending 30 years as an elementary school teacher prepared her to handle this confrontation.

She said her only regret was not taking a good look at the suspect to give police a better description.

Both women had just returned from a day of casino gambling and carried hundreds of dollars in their purses, but that was not something they wanted the would-be robber to know.

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