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A crime victim must have watched Sanford & Son.   WBTV (Matthews, NC) reported:

Police are looking for a man who invaded the home of an 85-year-old woman in Matthews.

That woman, resourceful, brave and was able to think fast to defend herself by pretending to have a heart attack.

The invader left the woman unharmed, but the neighborhood is still rattled and very sad about the invasion, especially because it was against a woman who lives alone.

“She’s a woman that ah, I’ve never really seen anybody like her,” said Tim Sessoms, a neighbor.

Saturday morning around 10:30 a.m., police say a stranger knocked at the woman’s door wearing a hat with dark grayish-green work style clothing on.

Officers responded the call for a burglary that reportedly took place on the 900 block of Evian Lane.

The victim said her faith in God kept her calm while the man demanded she give him 

money.

All the while he was searching her home, she was brainstorming ways to get him out of her house.

Then she decided to fake a heart attack.

“I’m proud of the fact that she was able to do that for herself,” said Sessoms.

The woman told me the intruder said he didn’t want to hurt her, then went to get her a phone for her to call 911.

The intruder left, she called the police and they arrived shortly after. Rest of story.