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* Daniel M'Mburugu is a 77-year-old grandfather who earns his living by farming. On June 2005, M'Mburugu was tending to his farm in Kenya when a sneaky leopard suddenly attacked him. When the leopard sank its teeth into M'Mburugu's wrist and started mauling M'Mburugu with its claws, M'Mburugu did NOT take the machete that was in one of his hands and start striking the animal with it. Instead, M'Mburugu decided to take care of business by '''reaching his hand into the leopard's mouth and pulling the animal's tongue out'''. Think about that. Simply hacking the cat into bits with a machete wasn't good enough for him; he ''jammed his fist down the creature's throat and ripped out its tongue''.
* Mark Shuey is not only a Badass Grandpa himself, he's out teaching other seniors the art of [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2008911838_canefu24.html?syndication=rss Cane Fu], so they can ALL be Badass Grampas and Grannies Not to Mess With.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927120040/http://badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie], a 78-year-old man who, when confronted with an enraged [[Mama Bear]] attacking his [[Papa Wolf|son]], proceeded to beat the bear with his walking stick, shove the stick down its throat, ''punch the bear in the face'', take a solid blow from said bear across the face, and then ''tackled the goddamn bear and beat it into retreat with his stick'' [[Foreign Language Tirade|while screaming every single profanity of his native language.]]
* A former junior boxing champion by the name of Frank Corti showed that, at age 72, he could still throw one HELL of a punch. When a man less than 1/3 his age tried to attack him at knifepoint, Corti responds by beating the man so hard that he appeared to have been hit by a train. With only TWO PUNCHES. [http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1196479/Pictured-The-battered-bruised-face-burglar-got-wrong-72-year-old-boxer.html See for yourself].
* Bass Reeves. Got his job as a Deputy Marshal in the Indian Territory when he was in his late forties, early fifties. Kept going until well into his eighties. Thousands of arrests, many gunfights, never wounded. Lotsa kids, lotsa grandkids. The best part? Escaped slave. Though he didn't get his cushy government job until after the Civil War,
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