Ava Estelle. Image - Facebook/Derek Habbeshaw

Facebook and Twitter users are on a sharing and liking spree as they praise this brave granny from Melbourne. Reading the tabloid story, netizens was were shocked and amazed. According to stories floating over the internet for a long time now, Ava Estelle, 81, hunted down two rapists who raped her 18-year-old granddaughter and shot their testicles off. The piece sounded like it was taken from a Quentin Tarantino movie with her ballsy move. Pun intended.

According to Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp, "The old lady spent a week hunting those bums down-and when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way."

"Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be: 'Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God."

Police reported that rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and testicles when angry granny Ava shot with a 9-mm pistol while he and his accomplice Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up in a filthy hotel room.

The old vigilante also shot Thomas' testicles off, but doctors managed to save his mutilated penis.

"The one guy, Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said he won't be using it the way he used to," Detective Delp informed reporters. "Both men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think they're just happy to be alive after what they've been through," he continued.

On Aug. 21, Ava decided to take revenge after she got know about her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and outraged by two thugs.

"When I saw the look on my Debbie's face that night in the hospital, I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself 'cause I figured the police would go easy on them," recalled the retired library worker. "And I wasn't scared of them, either-because I've got me a gun and I've been shootin' it all my life," Ava said.

With the help of the police artist's sketch she spent seven days in the sick neighbourhood where the crime took place. Ultimately, she spotted the thugs entering their hotel. "I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of 'em anyway and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them," she recalled.

"So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door -- and the minute the big one, Furth, opened the door, I shot 'em got right square between the legs, right where it would really hurt 'em most, you know. Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in."

According to reports, the lawmen are clueless as to how to deal with the tough granny.

"What she did was wrong, but you can't really throw an 81-year-old woman in prison." Delp said, "especially when all 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for mayor."