But the guys who are equivalent to those who nick old ladies' handbags are getting off.
Only old ladies answer the phone, complains Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm.
It swarmed with lounging waiters, officious policemen, dog-walkers pulled to right and left of the path, old ladies knitting.
If today's attacks are mostly anonymous, tomorrow they would be performed using hijacked and fully authenticated computers of old ladies.
But the atmospheric old neighbourhood with its silver shops and old ladies wrapped up in Thai silk does impart a time-warp feeling.
They patted little old ladies like her patronisingly on the head, while taking wads of money from special interests for whom they would do favours later.
Credulousness is not confined to sweet old ladies.
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"We will be running and staffing the phone banks, helping out the labor supporters and driving around the old ladies (to caucus sites), " said Lauren Lowenstein, the leader of the Gephardt supporters from Northwestern and a sophomore in Northwestern's College of Arts and Sciences.
He created a new category to mark what he considered the worst trend in recent films, Gidgets and Geezers, described as films with 58-year-old men wooing 28-year-old leading ladies.
Richard suggested the most popular of the region's grey ladies is that of an old woman said to be seen gliding across the A541 dual carriageway outside 16th century Jacobean mansion, Plas Teg, Pontblyddyn , on the Mold-Wrexham road.
In the first-round match between Martina Hingis and Jelena Dokic, the number one ladies' seed was knocked out by the 16-year-old and the score was an extraordinary 6-2, 6-0.
The stately and fantastical architecture, the history hanging in the air of the markets, the scent of jasmine in the ladies' car of the train, the gardens and street vendors and balloon-wallahs and intellectuals in old libraries - it will all take you in if you let it.
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