Playing "ding dong ditch" is a time-old tradition among suburban teens, but, kids, you should know that some of your targets may be armed. On Long Island, a 47-year-old woman was so fed up with someone ringing her doorbell and running away on Sunday night that on the third time, she took out her 9mm and fired a round outside her Rockville Centre home. And when she spotted a teen walking down the street outside her home a little while later, she stopped him and pointed her gun at him.
The Nassau County police say that Bernadette Greenwald held the teen "at gunpoint until police arrive[d]." Then cops determined that the teen had nothing to do with the prank and let him go...and arrested her.
Greenwald was charged with second-degree menacing, second-degree reckless endangerment and prohibited use of a dangerous weapon. Her lawyer told 1010WINS that "his client was home alone with her two children Sunday night and felt threatened. He also contended that the teenager had been found loitering on the Greenwald property in the past."
